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Profile of the German Materials Section
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How to get access to the German
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(*Updated in 2007.8.1)
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How to search and use the German
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Catagories of the German materials
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The audio and visual materials
1、Profile
of the German Materials Section
The German Materials Section is located
at the Friendship Library of Shanghai
Library (fourth floor of the reading
area). It was unveiled on November 3,
1999 and then German
Chancellor
Schroeder was present at the opening
ceremony to cut the ribbons.
This Section was proposed by The Goethe
Institute
(http://www.goethe.de/enindex.htm)
and funded by German Commercial Bank
Foundation. The Bertelsmann AG Co., Ltd
has contributed a number of books to the
Section.
In line with the agreement between
Shanghai Library and The Goethe
Institute, the Library provides the
Section with space, facilities and
staff; the Goethe Institute, on the
other side, offers regular supplies of
German materials as well as training
courses on language skill and expertise
for staff working for the Section. It is
in this kind of partnership that the
Goethe Institute has set up a network of
institutes, cultural associations, arts
centers and reading rooms across the
globe.
According
to the most recent statistics, the
Section has a collection of more than
3900 printed publications, over 700
multimedia items (including audio
cassettes, videotapes and CD-ROMs), and
15 titles of German periodicals and
newspapers, covering the areas of German
culture, politics,
economy, literature,
law and history. All the materials are
searchable through the online catalog of
Shanghai Library
and most of them can be checked out.
The German Materials Section is equipped
with facilities to use the multimedia
items. There is also a
computer for
readers to retrieve CD-ROM information
and visit German websites.
Shanghai Library
The German Materials Section
1555 Huai Hai Zhong Lu
Shanghai, 200031, China
Tel: +86 21 64455555-4411
gdshlib@libnet.sh.cn
Please contact: Ms. Zhou Fei
2、How
get access to the German materials
We have changed policy for lending books
shelved in the “German Materials
Section”.
Applications for the “Material Borrow
Card” are no longer accepted in the
German Materials Section from January 1.
To check out books from the German
Materials Section, you will need to have
a Shanghai Library Reader Card with the following functions:
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Reference/Research Book-Borrowing
If you already have a “Material
Borrowing Card” obtained from this
Section, it will be valid until its
one-year duration expires.
To apply for a Shanghai Library Card
please visit the Registration Desk
(please see
http://www.library.sh.cn/english/guide/bzxz/card.htm)
with your valid ID card or passport.
(8:80~16:30, everyday)
Amount of loans:
five items
(books,audio cassettes, video tapes, CDs). Only ONE set of German language
learning textbook can be borrowed at one
time.
Materials not for loan:
reference books (marked with a
RED DOT),
newspapers, magazines.
Length of borrowing and renewal:
the reader can hold the borrowed books
for FOUR
weeks. Renewal for another FOUR weeks is
possible.You can visit http://ipac.library.sh.cn and click on the “我的账户”(chinese version) to renew the books via internet.
Overdue fine:
RMB 0.5 for every item per day is
charged for not returning or renewing
the item before the due date.
Book return:
the borrowed German materials shall be
returned to the
German Materials Section
at the fourth floor. Returns can be made
by someone else. (Only the cardholder
him/herself can check out materials.)
Lost and damage:
if loans are lost or damaged, fines will
be charged according to Shanghai
Library’s policy for the lost and
damaged foreign materials.
Duplications:
duplications of the audiovisual items
are not permitted. Printed publications
can be photocopied within the Library.
Please note that full-page duplications
of loans are not allowed to abide by
relevant laws and regulations of the
Intellectual Property Rights.
3、How
to search and use the German materials
1.
Please log onto the iPac online
catalog of Shanghai Library at
http://ipac.library.sh.cn
2.
Select a proper searching field
and type in your keywords.
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Select “Title Keywords”(题名关键词） field and type
in the book title or the words contained
in the book title; if you know the book
title, you can also select the “Title
Browse” searching field.
§
Select the “Author Keywords” （著者关键词）field and
type in the author’s name, such as “ franz kafka"
§
Select the “Series Title Keywords”(丛书名关键词） field
and type in title of the series, such as
‘Klassiker der deutshcen Literatur
’.
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Select ‘ISBN’ or ‘ISSN’
field and type in the ISBN or ISSN
you’ve known. This is the quickest and
most accurate way to search library
resources.
3.
Click “开始 ’ button after
typing in keywords.
Note:
if the keywords contain letters like
‘Umlaut’ and ‘ß’,
such as the word ‘überfluß’,
please use ’U’ to replace ‘ü’,
and ‘ss’ to replace ‘ß’. In this case
please type in ‘uberfluss’.
Example:
if you want to search works written by
Max Weber.
Select ‘Author Keywordsr’ and type in ‘max
webber’,
results show altogether
33
records.
See fig. 1.
The results displayed in the page are
all documents held by Shanghai Library
that are written by Max Webber.
If you want to search the documents held
by the German Materials Section ONLY,
please click ‘限定以’ button on
the right，and choose "赠书阅览室“. Results show altogether 11
records.
See fig. 2.
4.
Click ‘排序’ button on the
top right to sort results in alphabetic
orders by author’s name or book title,
or in publication date order.
5.
Click the book title to browse
the detailed record.
6.
Please notice the ‘馆藏地’
bar displaying the reading rooms or book
storage as well as the call number of
the material. Please submit the
correct call number（索书号） when requesting a
loan.
Example:
§
“外文借阅区－4楼” means this book is on
the open shelf of the foreign
proceedings reading room of the fourth
floor of Shanghai Library.
§
“综合阅览室－1楼” means the
book is on the closed shelf in the
stacks; if the status displays
“归还”（means returned), please use the computers
equipped in the catalogue hall on the
first floor to request the book.
§
“德语资料区－4楼” means the book is on
the open shelf of the German Materials
Section of the fourth floor. If you have
registered to borrow materials from the
German Materials Section, you can borrow
most books and multimedia items of the
Section.
4、Catagories
of the German materials (by
Classification Number)
B. Philosophy, Religon:
including works from the major German
philosophers such as Wilhelm Friedrich
Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Arthur
Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche;
the collections of German contemporary
philosophers; collections of Sigmund
Freud; works of Christian theologists
such as Karl Barth and Ernst Troeltsch;
dictionaries of Ethnics and Christian
theology.
D. Politics, Laws:
Political and jurisprudent system of
Germany, dictionaries on laws.
F. Economy:
German economy, markets, business
management.
G. Culture, Science, Education, Sports:
profiles of German universities and
colleges, faculties and study programs,
etc.
H. Linguistics and Lexis:
all sorts of materials for language
learning and language tests; Duden
Woerterbuecher, DUDEN Deutsches
Universalwoerterbuch, Germany
dictionaries compiled by the Brothers
Grimm, etc.
I. Literature:
including works from major German
litterateurs, such as Wolfgang von
Goëthe, Heinrich Heine, Hermann Hesse,
Stefan Zweig, Franz Kafka, Günter Grass,
Tomas Mann, etc.; peotry anthologies of
Friedrich Von Schiller and Rainer Maria
Rilke; works from major German
playwrights; German literature
critiques, literature history and
dictionaries.
J. Arts:
works of German major painters of all
periods; history of German film
industry; dictionaries on German movies;
history of German music; dictionaries on
German music; music books, etc.
K. History and Geography:
biographies of famous German statesmen
such as Otto von Bismarck and Konrad
Adenauer; compilations of the works and
speeches made by German Chancellors in
the past 50 years; brief biographies of
celebrities from all walks of life of
Germany; German history;
There are detailed introductions to
Germany’s major regions and cities, most
enclosed with colored illustrations.
T. Industrial technologies:
special books in this category are
illustrated albums of German
architectures.
5、The
audiovisual materials
The audiovisual materials in the German
Materials Section consist of
videotapes,
audio
cassettes,
CDs,
DVDs
and CD-ROMs.
Ü
Videotapes:
movies, documentaries about landscapes
of German cities, traditions, history
and persons, some with English
subtitles.
Ü
Audio cassettes:
language learning, reading materials for
children, recitations of literature
works (from Goëthe, for instance). Some
are attached with books or text books.
Ü
CDs:
this category is divided into music,
language learning and talking books.
Ü
DVDs:
movies and historical documentaries.
Ü
CD-ROMs:
mainly are reference materials,
including dictionaries of world
literature, movie, drama, German modern
history, almanacs, international
guidebook on design, etc.
