Rolf Griebel (born September 15, 1949) is a German
librarian
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The role of the librarian has changed much over time ...
, library administrator, and prominent figure in German and international
library associations
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. He was the Director General of the
Bavarian State Library
The Bavarian State Library (german: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, abbreviated BSB, called ''Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis'' before 1919) in Munich is the central " Landesbibliothek", i. e. the state library of the Free State of Bavaria, the big ...
(''
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
The Bavarian State Library (german: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, abbreviated BSB, called ''Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis'' before 1919) in Munich is the central " Landesbibliothek", i. e. the state library of the Free State of Bavaria, the bigg ...
'' or BSB) from 2004 to 2014.
Griebel is the BSB's Partner Representative in
OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), which is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain
WorldCat
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—the OCLC Online
Union Catalog
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.
Griebel was ultimately responsible for BSB's participation in the
Google Books Library Project
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, which involves a series of agreements between Google and major international libraries through which a collection of its public domain books will be scanned in their entirety and made available for free to the public online.
Bavaria + Google (in English)
''Staatsbibliothek'' + Google (in German)
Published work
*Griebel, Rolf. (2002). ''Etatbedarf universitärer Bibliothekssysteme. Ein Modell zur Sicherung der Literatur- und Informationsversorgung an den Universitäten.'' Frankfurt-am-Main: Kostermans. (cloth)
*Griebel, Rolf, Andreas Werner, and Sigrid Hornei. (1994). ''Bestandsaufbau und Erwerbungspolitik in universitären Bibliothekssystemen. Versuch einer Standortbestimmung.'' Berlin: Deutsches Bibliotheksinst. (cloth)
*Dörpinghaus, Hermann Josef and Rolf Griebel. (1992). ''Checkliste für die Auswahl von Lieferanten ausländischer Monographien''. Berlin: Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut. (cloth)
See also
*National libraries
A national library is a library established by a government as a country's preeminent repository of information. Unlike public libraries, these rarely allow citizens to borrow books. Often, they include numerous rare, valuable, or significant wo ...
References
External links
*Riding, Alan
"France Detects a Cultural Threat in Google", NYT, April 11, 2005
1949 births
Living people
German librarians
German male writers
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