Claudia Lux
Claudia Lux | |
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![]() Claudia Lux in Kuala Lumpur in 2018 | |
Born | (1950-03-24) 24 March 1950 (age 74) Gladbeck, Germany |
Education | Ruhr University Bochum (Ph.D.) |
Occupation | Librarian |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Berlin State Library Senate Library Central and Regional Library Berlin German Library Association IFLA Library and Information Sciences Institute at Humboldt University in Berlin Qatar National Library |
Claudia Lux (born 24 March 1950 in Gladbeck, Germany) is German librarian and the Member of the National Committee of International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
Life and education
After studying social sciences, Lux received her Ph.D. in sinology in 1985 at Ruhr University Bochum. She started to work as a sinologist at the State Library.
She worked in the East Asia Department of the Berlin State Library and participated in a number of research projects.[1] She became the director of the Senate Library and in 1997 director-general of the Central and Regional Library Berlin.
From 1995 to 2004 she became the chair of the German Library Association and a member of the National Committee of IFLA. From 2007 to 2009, she was elected president of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). She was the successor of Alex Byrne and after Gustav Hofmann and Hans-Peter Geh, Lux was the third German, who held this office. Lux has been Honorary Professor of the Library and Information Sciences Institute at Humboldt University in Berlin since 2006.
In April 2012 Lux left her position as the director-general of the Central and Regional Library Berlin and moved to Qatar. She worked as the Project Director at Qatar National Library in Qatar.[2][3]
Works
- The political-economic decision-making process in China in 1937-1945 (Bochum, 1986) ISBN 3-88339-495-5
- The library system of the People's Republic of China (Munich 1986) ISBN 3-598-21127-9
- Fees in libraries (with Günter Beyersdorff, Berlin, 1988) ISBN 3-87068-876-9
- Teaching library in Deutschland (Wiesbaden, 2004) ISBN 3-934997-11-2
See also
- Qatar National Library
References
External links
- Gespräch mit Claudia Lux: Der lange Weg zu einem deutschen Bibliotheksgesetz. Goethe-Institut, July 2007.
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- Isak Collijn (1927 to 1931)
- William Warner Bishop (1931 to 1936)
- Marcel Godet (1936 to 1947)
- Wilhelm Munthe (1947 to 1951)
- Pierre Bourgeois (librarian) (1951 to 1958)
- Gustav Hofmann (1958 to 1963)
- Sir Frank Francis (1963 to 1969)
- Herman Liebaers (1969 to 1974)
- Preben Kirkegaard (1974 to 1979)
- Else Granheim (1979 to 1985)
- Hans-Peter Geh (1985 to 1991)
- Robert Wedgeworth (1991 to 1997)
- Christine Deschamps (1997 to 2003)
- Kay Raseroka (2003 to 2005)
- Alex Byrne (2005 to 2007)
- Claudia Lux (2007 to 2009)
- Ellen Tise (2009 to 2011)
- Ingrid Parent (2011 to 2013)
- Sinikka Sipilä (2013 to 2015)
- Donna Scheeder (2015 to 2017)
- Gloria Pérez-Salmerón (2017 to 2019)
- Christine Mackenzie (2019 to 2021)
- Barbara Lison (2021 to 2023)