THIRD CONFERENCE ON EUROPEAN HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES

 

THIRD CONFERENCE ON EUROPEAN HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES

3-4 December 2009

The Hague, Institute of Netherlands History

 

PROGRAM, CONFERENCE PAPERS AND CONFERENCE REPORT

 

Program

http://www.histbib.eu/Conferences/3rd_Conf_Program.pdf

 

THIRD CONFERENCE ON EUROPEAN HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES

3-4 December 2009, The Hague, Institute of Netherlands History

European Historical Bibliographies is a network of fifteen subject-specific

bibliographies from thirteen countries. It shall promote continuous cooperation

among the participating institutions and bring together, on a European level, their

various national bibliographic resources so that trans-national historical research is

facilitated.

 

The third conference of the network on European historical bibliographies is

dedicated to the changed position of national historical bibliographies since the rise

of internet.

 

Supported by the Institute of Netherlands History

Welcome – Thursday 3 December 1.30 pm – 2.00 pm

Opening – Donald Haks (Institute of Netherlands History)

New participants & current affairs – 2.10 pm – 2.50 pm

 

chair: Ronald Sluijter (Digitale Bibliografie Nederlandse Geschiedenis)

Bibliografie van de geschiedenis van België – Romain van Eenoo (Universiteit Gent)

 

Bibliographie zur Zeitgeschichte – Daniel Schlögl (Institut für Zeitgeschichte)

 

Humanus – Ferenc Vasbányai (Országos Széchényi Könyvtár)

 

Brepols’ historical bibliographies – Chris Van den Borre (Brepols Publishers)

 

The national historical bibliography: an endangered species?

 

Session 1: competitiveness and threats – 2.50 pm – 5.30 pm

chair: Ronald Sluijter (Digitale Bibliografie Nederlandse Geschiedenis)

 

2.50 pm – Connecting the Royal Historical Society Bibliography to other online resources

 

– Peter Salt (Bibliography of British and Irish History)

 

3.15 pm – Challenges for historical bibliographies in our time – Christoph Cornelissen

(Jahresberichte für Deutsche Geschichte)

 

Coffee break – 3.40 pm – 4.10 pm

 

4.10 pm –The Bibliographie der Schweizergeschichte (BSG) and other digital sources on

Swiss history: What role for the future? – Karin von Wartburg (BSG)

 

4.35 pm – Conclusion of session 1 - Gregor Horstkemper (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)

5.00 pm – Discussion

Conference dinner – 7.00 pm –

Welcome –Friday 4 December 8.30 am – 9.00 am

The national historical bibliography: an endangered species?

 

Session 2: choices and opportunities – 9.00 am – 11.30 am

chair: Daniel Schlögl (Institut für Zeitgeschichte)

 

9.00 am – Czech Historical Bibliography: plans and perspectives – Václava Horčáková &

Kristina Rexová (Bibliografie dějin Českých zemí)

 

9.25 am – Facing the growing historical production and remaining a reference resource –

Brigitte Keriven & Claude Ghiati (Bibliographie de l’histoire de France)

 

9.50 am – Historische Bibliographie – Renate Plichta (AHF-München)

Coffee break – 10.15 am – 10.45 am

 

10.45 am – Conclusion of session 2 – Sebastiaan Derks (Digitale Bibliografie Nederlandse

Geschiedenis)

 

11.10 am – Discussion

Business meeting – 11.30 am – 0.30 pm

chair: Christoph Cornelissen (Jahresberichte für deutsche Geschichte)

Business Meeting European Historical Bibliographies (website, formats, formal

agreement, 4th conference)

 Participants:

Bibliografia dĕjin Českých zemí

Bibliografia historii polskiej

Bibliografia Storica Nazionale

Bibliografie van de geschiedenis van België

Bibliographie annuelle de l’Histoire de France

Bibliographie der Schweizergeschichte

Bibliographie zur Zeitgeschichte

Bibliography of British and Irish History

Digitale Bibliografie Nederlandse Geschiedenis

Historische Bibliographie

Literaturdokumentation zur Geschichte Ostmitteleuropas

HUMANUS

Lunch – 0.30 pm –

 

Information on conference themes

The national historical bibliography, an endangered species?

 

Theme 1: competitiveness and threats

There’s no doubt that the position of (historical) bibliographies has changed since the rise of the

internet. Not only did it extend the number possibilities to publish historical articles, books or

databases, but it also offers an alternative method for researchers and others to search for

relevant literature on their subject. In one of our previous meetings it was suggested by a

participant—maybe acting as the devil’s advocate—that bibliographies might be getting

obsolete. A giant, intimidating opponant—Google Books—recently entered the arena and

threatens to wipe us out. Projects like Muse, JStor and Revues.org offer comprehensive

collections of online historical journals. Are these real threats to us? And if they are, do we have

reasons to oppose them? Will we be defending ourselves out of a familiar reflex all

organisations share when threatened in their existence? Or are there more valid arguments to

resist? Although at the moment this threats may be more real for some bibliographies than for

others, it seems necessary to reflect upon the future of our national historical bibliographies.

 

Theme 2: choices and opportunities

Probably all bibliographies face the same problem: an ever growing historical production spread

over a wide range of publication media and the struggle to keep up with it, but with the same or

even less manpower available. Getting online was, or in some cases still is, money and time

consuming, and now we are facing new developments already, e.g. the growing number of

online publications and possible threats by alternative search methods on the internet. On top of

this, sponsors are more inclined to curtail finances than to expand them. The Digitale

Bibliografie Nederlandse Geschiedenis is trying to challenge this problem in several ways, e.g.

by sharpening our selection criteria so as to avoid ‘drowning’ and by cooperation with other

bibliographies, libraries and projects in order to become a kind of central ‘hub’ in a historical

information network. This way, we try to to become indispensable brokers of published historical

information, and generate new financial means. We are curious to what extent these problems

and possible solutions also apply to your bibliographies. It will be interesting to exchange

knowledge, experiences and ideas.

A short ‘how & what’ for conference participants

 

Airport

Arriving passengers at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport will, after passing customs, enter into the

airport terminal’s central forecourt, easily mistaken for a shopping mall. Here you will find the

railway ticketing counter (on your left hand side), where you can buy train tickets to The Hague

Central Station (on the signs: Den Haag Centraal). Direct intercity trains run every 30 minutes

and the journey takes 33 minutes. Tickets cost € 7,50 (second class) / € 12,80 (first class).

The Hague

For those of you who have not been here before, you will find that The Hague is a relaxed city,

built on a relatively small scale. The city centre is quite safe, also after dark.

The Park Hotel in The Hague can be reached on foot from the central railway station, but if your

bags are full, you might wish to take a taxi. Taxis are all metered, but expensive. Exiting the

station, you will find the taxi stand on your left hand side. Reaching the taxis might involve

overcoming some obstacles, as the station and its immediate surroundings are currently

undergoing a major reconditioning. Circumstances ‘on the ground’ differ from week to week.

It is, of course, also possible to use public transport. The Dutch system requires some

explanation. The Hague has trams and buses. To travel on any kind of public transport, you are

best advised to buy a ‘strippenkaart’ at the HTM Ticketing Office in the station hallway. Current

price is € 7,30. This will get you a paper slip with 15 travel entities printed on them, called

‘zones’. Before each trip within the city centre, you need to fold the ‘strippenkaart’ 2 zones down

(each trip takes 2 entities), and stamp the card at the tram stop (that is before entering the tram)

in the yellow or (sometimes) red stamping devices, called ‘stempelautomaat’ on the tram

platform. Longer journeys take more ‘zones’. The ‘strippenkaart’ is, in principle, valid on buses

and trams throughout the country, so you can also use it outside The Hague. Buses do not have

a ‘stempelautomaat’ at the stops. To travel on a bus, ask the driver to stamp your ‘strippenkaart’

for you. The ‘strippenkaart’ system is currently being phased out, which means that you may

also opt to buy the alternative plastic ‘chip card’ at one of the vending machines at the station.

If you take the tram: From the central railway station, tram 10 (ground level of the station, exit on

the left of the main hall; direction Statenkwartier) stops near the Park Hotel (get off at

Kneuterdijk; from there the hotel is 2 minutes on foot, see map).

If you take the bus: From the central railway station, bus 24 of the HTM, direction ‘Kijkduin’

(busplatform, located above trainplatform) takes you also to stop Kneuterdijk.

Institute of Netherlands History and Royal Library

The Institute of Netherlands History (in Dutch: Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, or ING)

is located at the fifth floor of the Royal Library building (in Dutch: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, or KB).

The Koninklijke Bibliotheek is a modern white coloured ‘plastic’ building, located right next to the

central railway station at Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5. The entrance of the institute is on the first

floor of the library.

 

Parkhotel

Molenstaat 53

Bus/Tram

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Kneuterdijk

Central

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Royal

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Program

http://www.histbib.eu/Conferences/third-conference-on-european-historical-bibliographies

New participants and current affairs

Romain van Eenoo (Gent): Bibliografie van de geschiedenis van België

Daniel Schlögl (Munich):  Bibliographie zur Zeitgeschichte

Ferenc Vasbányai (Budapest): Humanus

Chris Van den Borre (Turnhout): Brepols' historical bibliographies

The national historical bibliography: An endangered species?

 

Session 1: Competitiveness and threats

Peter Salt (London): Connecting the Royal Historical Society Bibliography to other online resources [text and slides]

Christoph Cornelißen (Kiel): Challenges for historical bibliographies in our time

Karin von Wartburg (Berne): The Bibliographie der Schweizergeschichte (BSG) and other digital sources on Swiss History: What role for the future?

Gregor Horstkemper (Munich): Conclusion of session 1

 

Session 2: Choices and opportunities

Václava Horčáková & Kristina Rexová (Prague): Czech Historical Bibliography: Plans and perspectives [text and slides]

Virginie Durand, Brigitte Keriven & Claude Ghiati (Paris): Facing the growing historical production and remaining a reference source

Renate Plichta (Munich): PPP - Public Private Partnership: The Historische Bibliographie is going to try a changed concept of budgeting. Plans and perspectives

Sebastiaan Derks & Ronald Sluijter (The Hague): Conclusion of session 2: New concepts for new challenges? On the practices and prospects of historical bibliographies

Business meeting

Participants:

 

Bibliografia historii polskiej

Bibliografie van de geschiedenis van België

Bibliographie annuelle de l’Histoire de France

Bibliographie der Schweizergeschichte

Bibliographie zur Zeitgeschichte

Bibliography of British and Irish History

Digitale Bibliografie Nederlandse Geschiedenis

Historische Bibliographie

Humanus

Jahresberichte für deutsche Geschichte

 

Conference report

Stefan Wiederkehr: Third Conference on European Historical Bibliographies. 03.12.2009-04.12.2009, Den Haag, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 24.02.2010, <http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=3007>.

 (Access-Erişim: 31.8.2019)