A View of Publishing in the Federal Republic of Germany by Means of the Example of the Verlag Norman Rentrop
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Authors
Webb, Susan M.
Issue Date
1987
Type
Thesis
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en_US
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The following paper is an attempt to reflect what I did
and learned while working for the Verlag Norman Rentrop in
Bonn, West Germany as an intern in the company library. My
project was to have been the transfer of the library card
catalogs from the present traditional system to a PC-based
system. When I arrived in Bonn, however, I discovered that
the necessary research had not yet been done. I assisted in
the search for library software and in the subsequent trial
period. The ultimate decision was that the software was too
expensive and extensive for our library at present. Before,
during, and after this decision process was taking place, I
spent my time completing a number of necessary tasks in the
library (section III) and doing some research on the subject
of starting a business in the Federal Republic (sections II
and Ila). The process of starting a business is different
and, I would assert, more complicated than in the United
States. Section II offers a discussion of the major aspects
of founding a business in West Germany, with section Ila
presenting the same information in German. Section III, as
said, contains a presentation of the various projects I
worked on in the library and section IV is more or less my
reflections on the relationship between my internship and my
studies at Kalamazoo.
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v, 114 p.
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