Improving the User Experience in From the absolutely ridiculous to the nearly sublime… Miriam Haardt MA WissDok MCLIP Deputy Senior Librarian and Cataloguer CILIP's New Professionals Day 2015

The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide A short overview over a long history The not quite so ridiculous... But maybe a little bit... And the nearly sublime: Today and tomorrow One example of change in the user experience: Access to the November Pogrom Accounts Miriam Haardt MA WissDok MCLIP

A little bit of history The oldest Holocaust related institution in the world 1930s: Büro Willhelmstrasse and Jewish Central Information Office (JCIO) Collecting and disseminating information about, by, against the Nazis WW2: „Dr Wiener‘s Library“ Information for BBC and British Intelligence Service. Published two journals: Jewish News. Nazis at War Postwar: The Wiener Library Institute of Contemporary History Providing evidence for Nuremberg trials and Eichmann trial. Collecting Eyewitness accounts. Research. Development into a Library and Archive. 21th century: The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide Alfred Wiener 1933 Miriam Haardt MA WissDok MCLIP

Not all escaped Nazi persecution Dr Margarethe Wiener, nee Saulmann Miriam Haardt MA WissDok MCLIP From Berlin (1920s) via Amsterdam (1933) to London (1939)

The Wiener Library at its first home in the UK in Manchester Square Boxes from the Collection of The Wiener Library, 19 Manchester Square, 1956 Miriam Haardt MA WissDok MCLIP

But maybe a little bit (ridiculous)... Keeping old phone books... No spine labels and What is Dewey? A cup of tea with your archival research? Miriam Haardt MA WissDok MCLIP

One example of change in the user experience: Access to the Wiener Library‘s November Pogrom Accounts

Miriam Haardt MA WissDok MCLIP From loose and bound testimonies......via a card catalogue in a fireplace......and microfilms......to today and tomorrow...

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The Wiener Library - One of the world's leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust and Nazi era Unique collection of over one million items Nearly 70,000 Published and unpublished works 100,000s of press cuttings Over 2,700 Archival Collections Over 3000 Serials (ca. 130 current subscriptions) 17,000 photographs and 1000s of eyewitness testimony. In-house access to databases with full texts: Testaments to the Holocaust and Postwar Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, Digital copy for the UK of the International Tracing Service (ITS) Archive: over 100 million images of documents re 17.5 million people Soon: Managing the Holocaust education website

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Come along Open to the Public Free Exhibitions Reading Room Access to all material WiFi Events Free behind-the-scenes-tours every Tue at 1pm Opening hours Mon-Fri 10am – 5pm Tue 10am – 7:30pm To access material that‘s not in the Reading Room, just bring Proof of Address & Photo ID at your first visit Membership fee if you want to borrow books Miriam Haardt MA WissDok MCLIP

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