Our last tipp of the month in the year 2005 leads to the current exhibition „Chrismukkah – Stories of Christmas and Chanukkah at the Jewish Museum Berlin. A special attraction is the world-wide first Chrismukkah market in the courtyard of the Baroque Palais that before accomodated the Berlin Museum. The market offers to its visitors many surprises and culinary specialities for both Chanukkah and Christmas. Who is not able to pay a visit to Berlin could instead pay a visit to the comprehensive Website of the Jewish Museum or read the catalogue of the exhibition. Kugelmann, Cilly (ed.) Weihnukka : Geschichten von Weihnachten und Chanukka - Buch zur Ausstellung in Berlin 2005/06, ISBN 3-89479-286-8 [Chrismukkah : Stories of Christmas and Chanukkah – Catalogue to the Exhibition in Berlin 2005/06]
Modern sociology of religion defines superstition as a concept that targets at either idealization or depreciation of knowledge for accomplishing reality. The major work in this field which is essential for understanding sources of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times and possessed by scientific libraries has recently been published as a reprint.
This encyclopaedia could be ordered at the bookstore Zweitausendeins on special offer.
Hanns Bächtold-Stäubli (Ed.): Handwörterbuch des deutschen Aberglaubens. 10 Vol. Berlin und Leipzig: De Gruyter, 1929-1942 (reprint 2000: ISBN 3-11-016860-X)
The German Dictionary of Law Terms – Dictionary of the Older German Legal Terminology ist a historical wordbook of law terms from the beginning of the written
tradition until round about 1800. The online dictionary accessible to the public free of charge includes the wordbook itself with entries from “Aachenfahrt” till “Recht” and three reference databases. The entries contain the specific law term, a short explanation of its meaning and excerpts of those sources, in which the term appears.
The local press is an important resource for the research in genealogy, sociology, economy and regional history in general. Valuable information can be found in notifications of civil registry offices, recruiting announcements of the armed forces, advertisements, letters to the editor etc. The “Zeitschriftendatenbank” (ZDB) is the largest database worldwide for the reference of periodicals. It contains more than 1,1 Mio. titles of journals in several languages published in the time from 1500 until today. Together with the titles the “ZDB” provides information of evidence for approximately 4300 mainly German libraries. The search screen is a very user-friendly one and allows queries according to country and area where the journal was published or spread.
Weblogs are en vogue nowadays - choosing a nickname one turns to the broad public of the
world wide web. Those people who spend a lot of time in libraries and archives are very often unsuccessfully in their search for refreshment. But may be there are also bright spots you would like to recommend to others. In our Weblog => Leserhunger we would like to place at the disposal of hungry readers a platform for the exchange of experiences and for improving the offers of snacks in the library and archive environment. Please, send your restaurant critics in one of the languages of our webpage and a photograph to leserhunger@archivauskunft.de.
The inventory B 162 of the Federal Archives of Germany makes files accessible collected by the Central Office of the Judicial Administrations of the Länder for Investigation of Nazi Crimes (Zst) in Ludwigsburg. This departement has been and still is responsible for collecting, viewing and analyzing materials documenting atrocities perpetrated against
civilians during World War II by the so called Einsatzkommandos and for records related to concentration camps. Access to the records is possible by two different means: the card index of lawsuits and the card index of names, places and military units. For secondary literature please consider the joint OPAC of the Network of Memorial Libraries (AGGB)
Motivated by a current review in “Sehepunkte” we would like to draw your attention to a
series of guides to inventories of Polish Archives. The guide for the State Archive of Szczecin already is accessible free of charge in the www. According to the information of the editor, the Federal Institute for the Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe, guides for the State Archives of Wrocław and Gdańsk will follow in short time. Even if you are not German or Polish speaking an integrated index of places’ and institutions’ names and cross references between Polish and German terms provide easy access to the guide.
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Historical Society and the following guidelines from US National Park Service:
Making Mounting Corners for Photographs, Storage Enclosures for Prints and Negatives,
Chronology of Photographic Processes, Caring for Photographs: General Guidelines, Caring for Photographs: Special Formats, Caring for Color Photographs, Special Monochrome Processes, Caring for Cellulose Nitrate Film and the Identification of Film-Base Materials.
Transliteration of non-latin scripts very often adapts to the sound of the target language.
For instance the name of the Russian author Солженицын is transliterated Solschenizyn in German, Solzhenitsyn in English and Soljentisyne in French. Research libraries all over the world apply specific standards for transliteration according to their national rules of catalogizing. Unfortunately very often it is difficult to figure out from the websites of the libraries.
Online Public Access Catalogs (OPAC) which transliteration system is applied for which language.
An introduction to this subject that deals with the transliteration of Hebrew offers the online-publication of Susanne Marquardt.
Scientific discourse proceeds predominantly in journals.
If one is looking for professional articles one has to search in databases. In general these are expensive and provided for the public by research institutes or big libraries who acquire access by purchasing licences. In some cases licences are valid just for one working station, in others for a whole campus net. But there are also databases in the www. where access is free. The database information system DBIS developed by the University Library of Regensburg gives a review about both kinds of databases. Retrieval is possible by either subject or keyword.
