This paper gives an overview of the present status, planned alterations, and the scope of users of the DFVLR library, as well as a survey of library related activities outside of the library department. Attention is given to the tasks of the DFVLR which include research, assistance in planning and carrying out projects, and the construction and operation of large test installations, showing how they relate to demands on the library

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THE LIBRARY SYSTEM OF THE DFVLR -
PRESENT STATUS, PLANNED REORGANIZATION
USER POSSIBILITIES
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Aerospace Research Establishment), Cologne-Porz
West Germany, pages 1-17
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
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and Documentation in the Area of Aeronautics and Astronautics, November
14, 1979, Neubiberg West Germany, DGLR No. 79-084, Deutshce Forschungs-
und Versuchsanstalt fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Research
Establishment) , Cologne-Porz West Germany, pages 1-17, (A80-44521) .
The presentation gives an overview of the present status .and
the planned new arrangement of the Library of the DFVLR as well
as information about library-related.activities outside of the department
library and their utilization. The impact of large-scale researcn
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Table of contents /I*
1. The DFVLR
Origin, assignments, organization, and geographical grouping
2. The library system of the DFVLR
2.1 Present status
2.2 Planned reorganization
2.3 User group
3. Library-related activities outside of the library department
Appendix
* Numbers in margin indicate pagination of original foreign text
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S ummary;
The presentation gives an overview of the present status and
the planned reorganization of the library system of the DFVLR as well
as information about library-related activities outside of the
department library and their utilization.
1. The DFVLR, origin, assignments, organization, and geographical
grouping
The German Aerospace Research Establishment
(DFVLR) recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary.
It was established in the year 1969 by combining three predecessor
societies, rich in tradition, the German Research Institute for
aeronautics and astronautics(DFL) in Braunschweig, the German Research
Institute for aeronautics § astronautics (DVL) in Koeln-Porz, and the
Aerodynamic Test Institute (AVA) in Goettingen. The two last-named
institutes were established before the first world war. The name
Ludwig Prandtl should be named here as being representative of
all those scientists who were active at the start of German
aviation research and upon whose contributions we ,
continue to build.
According to it's by-lawsj the DFVLR is assigned the following /3
tasks:
- research, primarily in the area of aeronautics and astronautics
- collaboration in the planning and implementation of projects
- setting up and operating major research installations
- continuing the training of future scientists
- advice and support to the appropriate departments of the Federal
Government
The knowledge and technologies gained in the area of aero-
nautics § astronauticjgre also used to an appropriate degree for the
solution of problems in other areas, such as in the continued
development of transportation- and communication technology, the
non-nuclear energy technology, and the improvement in living
standards.
Of the approx. 3,200 coworkers, 1,700 are scientists or
technicians. " They work in 36 institutes and independent
installations ,which themselves are combined into 5 research-
and 4 service areas.
Geographically the DFVLR is distributed over the five research
centers
- Braunschweig
- Goettingen
- Koeln-Porz (Headquarters)
- Stuttgart and
- Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich
2. The library System of the DFVLR /4
2.1 Present status
Except for smaller institute libraries and a few external
stations the literature complement of the DFVLR, encompassing
approximately 300,000 bibliographic units, is essentially located
in the five central libraries assigned to the research institutes
in Braunschweig, Goettingen, Koeln-Porz, Stuttgart, and Ober-
pf af fenhofen. From an organization standpoint these five libraries
were just recently combined into the department "library System"
with headquarters in Koeln-Porz which itself belongs to the department
of scientific-engineering Operations.
For space reasons the existing central library complement
is subdivided into monographs (books) and reports. The monographs
are always accessible to every coworker in open access arrangement
in the reading rooms belonging to the libraries in Goettingen,
Stuttgart, and Oberpfaffenhofen. Unfortunately the reading
rooms in Braunschweig and Koeln-Porz are too small for this purpose.
The report literature, greatly outnumbering all others
(ratio of reports to monographs at present about 3 : 1) is placed
on library racks arranged in series (NASA, AGARD, etc.) and within
the series according to consecutive numbers.
Access to the monographs can be obtained via author-, title-,
and location catalogs of most diverse types; access to reports
can be gained via reference sheets such as Scientific and /6
Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR), International Aerospace
Abstracts (IAA) or similar. A subject catalog does not exist,
nor does a cumulative DFVLR catalog.
Since the few librarians possess neither the time nor the
language- and above all subject knowledge necessary for working
with STAR etc., we state plainly: if the question refers to the
subject matter, the access to in-house stock of the literature
types most important to most of the DFVLR scientific coworkers
is possible only via an external (non-DFVLR) literature search.
In-house publication activities no longer exist in the
DFVLR since the exclusion of the central office for aeronautics
and astronautics publications and information (ZLDI) and the almost
simultaneous dissolution of the small publications group
associated with the former Society for Space Research (GfW) , which
was sufficient for in-house use. As is well known, the ZLDI was
incorporated into the newly established Technical Information Center
for Energy, Physics, Mathematics (FIZ 4) in Karlsruhe; along
with the former ZAED it forms the basis of this information center.
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2.2 Planned Reorganization
There is necessarily only a single way out of the just described
dilemma: The library of the DFVLR turning to and relying c:,
on a large, well-functioning national technical information
center.With respect to the subject matter and also the history
(ZLDI) only the already mentioned Technical Information Center for
Energy, Physics, Mathematics in Karlsruhe could be considered for
this. In several conversations with Dr. Rittberger and his
colleagues we tried to clear up the mutual situation and to find
solution potentials for closer cooperation.
By the end of this year a proposal will be made to the board
of directors of the DFVLR for a reorganization o4he library which will
encompass essentially the following items:
- On-line connection to the technical information center 4
(dialog participant service) and thus direct access to its data
banks; beyond FIZ 4 access to additional data banks such as
NASA/ESA in Frascati within the framework of EURONET,
- participation in the combined library system (BVS) being set up
at present at FIZ 4.
On the part of DFVLR this requires
- the setting up of an information transmittal station (IVS) as
connecting link between the technical information center and the
individual scientific DFVLR coworker as information user. It will be
^set up centrally for the entire DFVLR in Koeln-Porz and must,
for one, carry out all literature searches desired by the co-
workers and, for another, furnish the DFVLR input for BVS.
Through BVS the DFVLR will receive for the first time a /8
complete catalog encompassing the literature complement of all
five center libraries in accordance with uniform points of view.
At present thought is given to detail questions, such as the
handling of the old holdings or the question, how the necessary
intermediate solution for the connection of the center libraries
Braunschweig, Goettingen, Stuttgart, and Oberpfaffenhofen to the
IVS center in Koeln-Porz might look; also to the question whether
the access to the NASA/ESA data bank in Frascati, which is a
"conditio sine qua non" for the DFVLR, could not be made directly,
i.e., without EURONET.
2.3 User group
The draft of the DFVLR library reorSanizati8Itarts as follows:
"The libraries of the DFVLR are service institutions. Their
task is the quick, cost-effective and comprehensive
availability of the literature needed by the scientific coworkers of
the DFVLR to carry out their assignments."
This means that the DFVLR libraries exist exclusively for their
own coworkers. They do not participate in the general loaning
arrangements of the various libraries among one another. Furthermore
they do not have sufficient personnel for this. This does not mean that
isolated inquiries, by private parties, by companies or even other
libraries.will not; be answered or processed within the realm of
possibilities. However, they must remain isolated cases.
Furthermore one must state with respect to this topic that /9
there is almost nothing in the entire DFVLR literature holdings that
FIZ 4 or the Technical Information Library (TIB) Hannover, as
institutions to which the general public has access, do not also
possess. The exception will be reported in the following section.
3. Library-related activities outside of the library system
During the organizationalconsolidationof the five center libraries
to the department library systems in the past year four literature
groups remained outside of this consolidation. They are
- Internal DFVLR • reports insofar as they have been published,
- the technical 'final _ reports for contracts of the national
space program of the Federal Republic of Germany, insofar as they
have nojt been published,
- the technical ' final reports (contractor reports) for con-
tracts which the ESA concluded during its space program and for which
there is limited distribution,
- the so-called ESA documents.
The scientific reports of the DFVLR - insofar as they were
released for publication - are issued and distributed by the staff
office for scientific report matters. They are cited in the DFVLR-
reports whose editorial office is located at the same staff office,
and are announced annually, compiled in a special Edition. As
" in * declared reports they are available neither from the /10
libraries nor from the previously named staff office. In the mean-
time they are also not cited anymore.
The final technical reports for contracts of the national
space program or similar, by the DFVLR as project holder of programs
monitored for the Federal Republic of Germany, are generally published
in the series research reports (FB-W or similar) of the Federal
Ministry for Research and Technology (BMFT) and are distributed
by the Technical Information Center Energy, Physics, Mathematics
in Karlsruhe.
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The un-published reports are available, if a special interest
exists, on loan from the department for project management • (PT)
of the DFVLR, section AV. The department is contractually obligated
to take into account the economic interests of those issuing the
report as far as possible, i.e., before each loan he must ask the
contractor and get his consent for the loan. For inquiries from
abroad or for study projects the BMFT must also be consulted.
Until a short time ago all contracts closed by the department
PT of the DFVLR were published in a few technical papers and
commerce newspapers. Since one could assume that each contract also
has a final report, this publication was at the same time a listing
of all available reports. Since there now exists a promotional
catalog of the BMFT, the PT-contracts are no longer cited as a
whole. Interested parties must use this catalog and search therein.
The final technical reports for ESA-contracts can be requested
directly from the ESA Scientific and Technical Publications
Branch in Noordwijk as well as from FIZ 4 in Karlsruhe and from
the department for project™311^6"1611^ of the DFVLR (PT-ES-K) in
Koeln-Porz.
Exceptions are contractor reports with the designation
ESA CR (P.)* and ESA CR (X). They have only limited distribution.
The BMFT and the DFVLR each obtain one of the two copies provided
for the Federal Republic of Germany. Interested parties for these
reports should please only contact the department for project
imanagemenSf the DFVLR who will examine whether the report in
question can be made available under copyright- and other aspects.
The loan is made only as microfiche.
In the so-called ESA-documents we are dealing with written
finalizing of committee decisions, administration proposals, working
papers and meeting minutes from the various committees, program
boards, advisory groups, and similar. The papers are not generally
accessible; they are - if at all - distributed only to institutes
participating in the particular ESA-project.
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In conclusion I would like to mention that you can naturally
by-pass the here listed, somewhat complicated jurisdictions and
can turn directly with your request to one of the five mentioned
central libraries. They will pass on your requests to the proper
place.
Appendix /12
(slides shown in the presentation)
- origin of the DFVLR
- assignments of the DFVLR
- organization of the DFVLR
- research centers of the DFVLR
- organizational diagram of the department for scientific-
technical operating installations
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ORIGIN OF THE DFVLR /13
Established in 1969 by the consolidatioifef three tradition-rich societies
AVA = Aerodynamic Test Institute Goettingen (founded by Ludwig Prandtl
in 1907)
DVL = German Test Institute for Aviation (founded in 1912 in Berlin)
DFL = German Research Institute for Aviation (founded in 1936
in Braunschweig)
DFVLR
The Society for Space Research was incorporated in 1972 into the
DFVLR and since 1975 is called BPT (Department of project-management
activities)
DFVLR = applied research, primarily in the area " aeronautics /14
and astronautics".
DFVLR = cooperation in the planning and conduct of projects
DFVLR = Setting up and operation of major test installations
DFVLR = continued training of future scientists
DFVLR = advice and support of cognizant offices of the Federal
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