4 December 2025, 15.00-16.30 CET
(2pm-3.30pm BST)
Webinar hosted by Gold Leaf, sponsored by De Gruyter Brill
The academic library has always played a major role in curating rare works. Some libraries hold unique collections of ephemera and artefacts, while others deploy modern technologies to capture past oral traditions or the literature of ethnic minorities before they disappear. Librarians of today understand the crucial importance of sharing this legacy with the wider communities which they serve.
We invite you to join this, our final webinar of the year, to discover how librarians from two universities, one German, the other American, are safeguarding the past for present and future generations while opening the library as an inclusive space for community engagement.
Speakers are:
Amanda Rust, Associate Director of Research and Learning, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA.
Martin Lätzel, Library Director of the State Library of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany.
Berit Johannsen, Deputy Library Director of the State Library of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany.
The webinar is sponsored by De Gruyter Brill and will be moderated by Linda Bennett of Gold Leaf. Registration is free of charge.
For more details and to book your place on the seminar, click here.
Who should attend
Academic librarians; public librarians; publishers; members of librarian support groups; members of consortia and trade associations; academics and students interested in sustainability; environmentalists.
Amanda Rust has worked in academic libraries for over 20 years, in areas such as digital humanities, digital archives, research and instruction, user experience, and more. Amanda has presented or written about topics such as information literacy, community archives, editing Wikipedia, and open access in public humanities. She is currently the Associate Director for Research & Learning at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Prof. Dr. Martin Lätzel, born in 1970, is a cultural manager and author and has been Director of the Schleswig-Holstein State Library/Cultural Repository in Kiel since 2019, after serving for many years as Deputy Head of the Cultural Department of the State of Schleswig-Holstein. He is also a professor for cultural management and digitisation policy at the Kiel University of Applied Sciences.
Berit Johannsen, born in 1973, studied at Christian Albrecht University in Kiel after graduating from high school. She has lived in Kiel since 1992. After working as a cultural manager at the Schleswig-Holstein Tourism Agency, she became a consultant and deputy head of department in the cultural department of the state of Schleswig-Holstein. Since 2019, she has been deputy director of the Schleswig-Holstein State Library.
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