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Roots of mediating information: aspects of the German information movement

Publikationstyp
Book Part
Date Issued
2008
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Hapke, Thomas  orcid-logo
Institut
Universitätsbibliothek TUB  
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/4131
Start Page
307
End Page
328
Citation
European Modernism and the Information Society: Informing the Present, Understanding the Past: 307-328 (2017-05-15)
Publisher DOI
10.4324/9781315580951
Is Part Of
isbn:978-1-317-13948-5
isbn:978-0-7546-4928-1
Mediation is one of the three 'fundamental characteristics of the phenomenon of information' in the age of modernity. This chapter deals with the German information movement, especially its connections with Wilhelm Ostwald, a predecessor of those who later strove to improve the communication of scholarly information. It shows that collecting, organizing, advertising and educating were essential parts of the activities of early 'information institutions' and so are at the roots of German institutional arrangements for mediating information. The chapter examines the Ethnologische Gewerbemuseum Aarau, Switzerland, and the Internationale Monogesellschaft in which Karl Buhrer was active. It discusses that the organizations had similar aims of mediating access to information. The chapter describes that the 'information institutions' share an 'educational view', involving instructional activities in what we call today information literacy.
DDC Class
020: Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft
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