Swiss National Library

Abstract The Austrian-Bohemian writer Franz Werfel (1890 – 1945) was part of a group of writers and thinkers that were inspired by Søren Kierkegaard’s works. While some attention has been paid to Werfel’s religious thinking, there’s a lack of studies that treat his at the time highly successful literary works. After discussing the context in which Werfel’s reception took place, this paper analyzes three novels in which Werfel implicitly refers to Kierkegaardian concepts. At stake is the idea of becoming (or failing to become) a self and the ensuing types of despair or fear, concepts that also captivated Werfel’s literary contemporaries such as Max Brod and Franz Kafka.

The publication is the main fragment of the report of the Swiss librarian and bibliographer Marcel Gaudet (fr. Marcel Gaudet; 1877, Switzerland – 1949, ibid.) at the Congress of the International Federation for Documentation (FID) 1939, translated by Lubov B. Khavkina, a classic of Russian and Soviet Librarianship. The Piece has a double interest: as rolling pins of your time when the Phenomenon of Documentation, as well as appeared in practice, documentation Centres, only comprehended and discussed, the activity Centers have been criticized, the relationship with the library functions was unclear; and as evidence of close attention to this issue Lubov B. Khavkina, too, only still developing its attitude to the innovation that appeared in the Western World.

En Suisse, les représentations de l'Autre comme menace sont récurrentes dans le débat politique. Depuis la fin du XIXe siècle jusqu’aux polémiques récentes sur la construction de minarets, la place de l'étranger ne cesse de faire question. Les frontières de la Confédération helvétique sont régulièrement mises en avant pour symboliser la nécessité d'intégrer les étrangers ou, au contraire, la tentation du repli sur soi. L'iconographie de la frontière témoigne de sa double dimension paradoxale à la fois d’entrée et de mur.

SUMMARY Shared authority files and cooperation in the development of national lists, both author and subject, have enabled libraries to share resources and improve access to their collections. As we move from national resource sharing to a more international approach, we face problems accessing catalogues in other languages. By creating links between existing subject heading languages (initially in French, German, and English), MACS (Multilingual Access to Subjects) allows users to carry out searches in major national library collections in Europe using subject headings in their own languages. An operational service will be available in 2004.

Libraries, an important factor in today's information world, are increasingly confronted with new technologies. The use of technology challenges fundamental assumptions on which libraries have operated. The continual aspect of change brings about uncertainty, a situation libraries are not used to. They have to deal with organizational challenges such as restructuring the institutions as well as the establishment of new services for their users. In the U.S. in particular, consultants have been playing an important role in supporting libraries during this process, whereas in Europe there is no history of library consulting. Only recently some libraries, for example, the National Library of Switzerland, have begun working with consultants. A consultant was hired to assist the library in its evaluation process for an automated library system. The case study presented here reflects the consulting process from two perspectives, the client's and the consultant's view. Changes in the communication structure within the library as well as the consultant's influence in the decision making are emphasized.