Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbuettel Bible Hall
Chairman: Dr. Uwe Jochum
There is no doubt that due to the implementation of data systems libraries throughout the world are in a stage of radical change: the former libraries with walls and splendid buildings that housed millions of books printed on paper are now changed into libraries without walls that circulate texts as data files via international networks. This conversion is not only thought of as the end of the good old library, but also as a radical new start. Whereas the access to information has up to now been restricted to certain places and institutions the virtual library promises to end such limitations by giving everyone free access to all electonic texts at any time and from any place. Yet the rhetoric of radical change leaves out of consideration that the logic of pure data transmission supersedes the logic of places that constitutes our cultural memory. This cultural memory is not only a memory of places and events but depends to a very high degree on rituals needing concrete places and institutions like theatres, archives, museums, and libraries. Therefore the conversion of physical libraries into virtual ones deletes the section of our cultural memory that relies on books and libraries as physical objects bound to concrete places. The Wolfenbuettel Symposion will reflect on those two logics =97 the logic = of data transmission versus the logic of concrete places and will try to engage them in conversation.
If you wish to attend the Wolfenbuettel Symposion please write to:
Dr. Werner Arnold
Monday, 28th September 1998
2.30 p.m. Welcoming and introduction
3.00 p.m. Dr. Werner Arnold (Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbuettel): The library as institution
3.45 p.m. Dr. Wolfgang Ernst (Kunsthochschule fuer Medien, Koeln): The interface between the logistics of libraries and the imaginary of nations: The Germanische Nationalmuseum Nuernberg and the Deutsche Buecherei Leipzig
4.30 p.m. Coffee break
5.00 p.m. Dr. Armin Schlechter (Universitaetsbibliothek Heidelberg): The library as a collection
5.45 p.m. Prof. Dr. Jochen Hoerisch (Universitaet Mannheim): Fahrenheit and electronic Omarism: the topoi of books
7.00 p.m. Reception
8.00 p.m. Dr. Joachim-Felix Leonhard (Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin): Gestalt and time: libraries, archives, museums, and the the history of culture and communication
Tuesday, 29th September 1998
9.00 a.m. Dr. Roland Reuss (Editor, Heidelberg): The edition
9.45 a.m. Vittorio E. Klostermann (Klostermann-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main): Editing literature
10.30 a.m. Prof. Dr. Aleida Assmann (Universitaet Konstanz): Libraries and literature
11.15 a.m. Coffee break
11.45 a.m. Michael Reisser (Editorial Department of "Buch und Bibliothek" Reutlingen): The finite library 12.30 p.m. Dr. Peter Berz (Humboldt-Universitaet Berlin): Catalogue and event
1.15 p.m. Final Discussion
(Please note: all above mentioned lectures will be held in German, but you may of course contribute to the discussions in your native language.)
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