From 2010-10-10
Introduction the network service of the Stock Exchange Journal why I was not sighted at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Presumably, charged per word count, no one of us booksellers as written on the problems of our Altbuch-search engine I. Why I did not take the opportunity to meet some of the men involved and provide provocative questions to be expected of me?
This has first of all technical reasons. I declare wills. We have philosophers among us (Parduhn), historian of religion (RFMeyer) and philologists (Beasley). So we can expect from colleagues Parduhn incomprehensible run-on sentences, mythical beasts and complications of RFMeyer busy-sober scientific literature. Since I am now a sociologist, I allow myself to conduct technical and tactical aspects of the field. I have learned how to organize events - such as not.
That ZVAB today is not in cooperative ownership is with some certainty about it: A - now already history nationals - Assembly of the booksellers had been technically-applied tactically in such a way that a systematic development of thought, a description of connections, a orderly debate and discussion was not possible.
are Then and now the problems of database sales for booksellers us much too complex, too convoluted than that Beasley "workshop" concept in a two-hour event would have been realized. The truth is drilled, the AG of the Association only a very useful question time applied to all database queries.
That can not hurt. But it has very little to do with that minimum of thought, in the discussion and results search, the more can be interesting if, as here, for once both sides at the table, the user (or victim) and, in the interest of these users to work or victims (or exploit them as milk cows).
Peace can not be the relationship between the two sides - and it is not, as I add hastily. For only out of honest disclosure of conflicts, even more, the V erdac hts - moments of the concerns may arise at the end of a trusting symbiosis.
very interesting an event of this kind is especially true if, as happened yesterday, also meet in terms of turnover tiny outsider, but who have great ideas to deal with in the saddle-fitting sizes of business. Now the world of databases even their own laws and rules, I know from the relatives that there is no more fear of contact and one sympathetic and impartial dealing with each other.
In the world of booksellers of all classes and types already different - geplagen the mixture of stubborn, wrong, or feelings of inferiority damn stupid, but imaginary antiquarians, "increases zvabhatschonwiederdieGrundbebührum0, 05%, Protestmarschmußerfolgen" of saturated "IchweißnichtwasIhreigentlichwolltmirgehtesbestens" colleagues up to eternal bite-criticism asters (, moaners and disaster seers, is difficult to understand.
one has because once the view, which I may say of me, then draw the tired old three layers of the lower, middle and high grade booksellers from clear across attracted to the two main product groups "used book of the last 50 years" and "real bookseller with a focus before 1960." According to Adam Giant are the mine at least 6 more or less clearly distinguishable basic forms of Antiquarian Booksellers.
So far, so good. So now several types of database people take on more types of antique shops. What comes then, one can imagine. Either developed a very satisfactory momentum of events, a lively back and forth rather randomly intercepted priorities, which are then dealt with also quite interesting (it seems to have been in Frankfurt) - or the Procrustean bed of a horrible botched scheduling chokes off any deeper knowledge formation (so many years ago in Berlin).
Both have but very little to do with clever tackling of such matters of the heart. If a certain burning issues on the nails when they tackle a really - and that was the case here - then you should be very different happened.
The first concerns the * preparation phase.
There are, at best by a small round issue, but only by using the gray matter of the charge, provide a set of basic questions, and - ideally - also in each case to be answered by theories. The provocative that happens, the better.
, the individual items will be considered by smaller working groups in the * implementation. How do you open it, it depends on the time and space. Simply this is not a solution, but it mu ß necessarily happen. Normally one hour is sufficient to order any work group meeting and to allow hypothesis formulation.
The next step should be carried out in one form or another, that the members of each working group will take to the podium and sit across the speakers. The discussion is between the working group and the speakers, the others present the "Report" at any time to conversation can.
What distinguishes this procedure from the question hour, as has been done in Frankfurt? The opinions, problems and views are all interested because each already been born ü ndelt. There is a kind of meta-discussion. This is how everyone can imagine, not equal sharper than held without a work group preparing question time.
There are a number of good tricks and variations, which I, given the complex structures on both sites, databases, such as booksellers, would have found particularly useful. I mean as a special (Lower Rhine and Friesland weghören please) not secret, but quite ö * Public
preliminary discussion on the web.
This would also have the advantage of bringing far more interested colleagues to Frankfurt and, more important still obtain, and the statements of interested, but really frustrated colleagues. Such concerns me now, for me in Zurich, where I Currently, that should take one day is not easy, reasonably planning and preliminary discussion but I would have liked to do and put me in the ICE train to Frankfurt.
Conclusion: make sure a useful event, but would have many more and perhaps even bring new signals, if it had been prepared smarter. What is so when the opportunity - can nachhholen in Frankfurt - for example, weekend seminar. I do not want to miss.
The photo shows the participants of yesterday's workshops at the Booksellers Association of Antiquarian Booksellers - thanks mundo.de, which owns the copyright.
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