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Director General Prof. Dr. Claudia Lux
 
   
  Portrait Dr. Lux Prof. Dr. Claudia Lux
Director General of the Foundation Central and Regional Library Berlin.

Contact: lux@zlb.de 
Tel.: +49(30) 90226 - 450
Fax: +49(30) 90226 - 494

Secretary: Regina Goebbels
 
Vita
  Current Position Director General of the Foundation Central and Regional Library Berlin established in October 1995 following an amalgamation of the America Memorial Library and the Berlin City Library.  
  Higher Education University Degree in Library Science, University of Cologne
Ph D in Sinology (Dr. phil.), University of Bochum
MSc in Social Science, University of Bochum
Grad. Diploma Social Science and Sinology, Universities of Berlin, Bochum/Germany, Lawrence (Ks)/U.S.A., Beijing/China (DAAD-Scholarship)
 
  Further Professional Experience Director of the Library of the Berlin Senate
Academic Librarian at the Berlin State Library, East-Asia Collection
Market Research, Berlin
Research Projects in connection with the former German Library Institute Berlin (specifically on retro-cataloguing issues, financing libraries, and problems associated with charging library fees)
 
  National and International Memberships IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) Governing Board Member
Chair of the IFLA National Committee, Germany
Fee professor of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU)
 
  Publications Various books and articles on the library system in China.
The development of the Central and Regional Library Berlin (articles).
Further publications on the following topics:
charging fees in libraries, retro-cataloguing projects and the costs of retro-cataloguing, outsourcing, virtual libraries, the management of change, the structure of the German library system.