Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Pünktlich zum Johannisfest ist das Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 2025 erschienenen, #Gutenberg 011
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Gegenüber 2003 sind 2025 die Studienanfängerzahlen in Deutschland um 28% gestiegen, in den Geisteswissenschaften um 22% gesunken - www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pr... 141
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Jan Wiele (@faznet) in scharfer Kritik an meiner Diagnose zum Strukturwandel der literarischen Öffentlichkeit zeitung.faz.net/faz/geistesw... - zum Vergleich, was ich tatsächlich geschrieben habe: www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/die-... 020
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Zum Stand der literarischen Öffentlichkeit www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/die-... 1162
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025While still some German political parties avoid speaking about war before election, other European countries have already understood the mezzage: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_case... 000
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 17/12/2024#BookTok makes a difference - www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/... 021
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 26/11/2024The number of academic papers published each year has doubled since 2010. Half of the new papers since 2013 came from the large traditional publishers, the remainder of the increase came from the newer for-profit open-access-only publishers, Frontiers, Hindawi & MDPI. direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... 031
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 26/03/2024“The Gruffalo” is now 25 years old, first published in March 1999 (Macmillan) by the fantastic duo Julia Donaldson (story and rhymes) and Axel Scheffler (illustration). Since then, we love “roasted fox” and “scrambled snake” (in French, “crème de serpent”). Thank you both! 020
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 14/02/2024Kaia Gerber is not only an American model and actress (and yes, the daughter of Cindy Crawford) but also since 2020 the mind behind the book club libraryscience.net - book celebrities are growing 000
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 10/02/2024Thoughtful analysis of recent data, whether Gerhard Schulze "Event Society" (Erlebnisgesellschaft, 1992) is still a valid theory of the German society - good arguments why Schulze is still right, doi.org/10.1515/zfso... 000
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 09/02/2024How many books are among these numbers? SEC reports sales of USD 37.6 billion for Amazon Germany in 2023 (2022: $33.6 bn., 2020: $37.3 bn., 2019: $29.6 bn.). After the US, Germany is the largest country market for Amazon (approx. 6.5%) - www.boersenblatt.net/news/buchhan... 000
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 08/02/2024Regular visits to musical events in Germany are slightly increasing compared to 2003, specifically for young people. Visiting musical events correlates with the level of education, but not with income - interesting numbers by @mizMusikinfo 000
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 03/02/2024Now in Germany - Librariancore: A librarian in Vogue's fantasy is Gisela Bündchen in "The Devil Wears Prada". Twin sets, kitten heels with straps, woollen jumpers, pencil skirts, but the key piece is the slim reading glasses (without prescription lenses) - and no books. 000
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 02/02/2024More than 52 % of all adults in the US created and/or performed art in 2022. The share of adults who made art is roughly equal to the share who read books and/or literature (53 %). Just under half (48 %) of all adults attended at least one art event in person - NEA SPPA 000
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 26/01/2024What a title! I hope for more news like this - and yes, not every poem is Wordsworth or Burns, but readers are different @TheEconomist 020
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 26/01/2024ARD radio statistics: Classical music accounted for almost 3 million broadcast minutes on German national radio in 2022 - 564,000 minutes less than in the previous year. In terms of airtime, the decline corresponds to more than the annual programme of an entire radio wave 000
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 25/01/2024By the middle of this decade, there will already be more trained teachers available in the primary school sector than there are positions to be filled. The reason for this is the trend reversal in the birth rate - opportunities for better schooling - www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/de/publikati... 000
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 22/01/2024Significant changes in reading behaviour in families in Germany - important presentations by the Expert Council for Children (Kinderkommission (Kiko)) in the German Bundestag - www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfHU... 000
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 21/01/2024Impact of Social Media on reading abilities: The average score for students in the US nation in 2022 (259) was lower than their average score in 2019 (262) and was not significantly different from their average score in 1998 (261)- report from 2022, cf. nces.ed.gov/nationsrepor... 000
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 20/01/2024Gen Z is reading and visiting libraries: In a survey by the @ALALibrary 54% of Gen Z and millennials reported having used physical libraries within twelve months - www.ala.org/advocacy/sit... 000
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 14/01/2024Global Attitudes Survey 2023: A median of 50% say they feel very or somewhat close to people all over the world. Feeling close to others around the world is more common in Europe than in other regions, but check Kenya www.pewresearch.org/global/2023/... 000
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 13/01/2024A recently published report by @ALALibrary on how Gen Z and millennials use public library resources shows younger generations visit libraries at higher rates than older generations (www.pewresearch.org/internet/201..., www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...) 000
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 06/01/2024Expenditure for early childhood education and care increased by an annual 3% on average across OECD countries between 2015 and 2020. Compare enrolment rates of young children by age 2,3,4,5) e.g. France, Germany, and Finland (OECD, tinyurl.com/jjufv3y7) 000
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 05/01/2024German cinemas recorded an 18.5% increase in admissions to 87.2 million tickets in 2023 compared to 2022. Sales totalled 859 million euros, an increase of 23.7%. The market share of German films in terms of tickets sold was 19.1%, 4.6 % below the previous year. (HDF KINO - tinyurl.com/mr27823x) 000
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 05/01/2024The attitude to everyday life has less changed than the assessment of the general situation, and for most people, it is probably less bleak overall than many assume: Answer 1951, 2001, 2023 on "Is there someone who would help you if you found yourself in a difficult situation?" 000
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 27/12/2023BiB.monitor well-being 2023: How satisfied is the population in Germany? Across all age groups, men and women in the FReDA survey reported roughly the same satisfaction ratings of 6.9 on a scale of 0 for "very dissatisfied" to 10 for "very satisfied"- www.bib.bund.de/DE/Publikati... 000
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 23/12/2023Before the invention of the radio singing for Christmas was poor people's job, London Carol Singers by Robert Seymour, in Thomas K. Hervey’s "The Book of Christmas", 1836, p. 215 010
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 21/12/2023More children started school in Germany than at any time in the last 20 years: 830,600 children. That was around 17,000 or 2.1%. The increase can be attributed to demographic developments such as higher birth rates and, in particular, increased immigration - @destatis 000
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 21/12/2023Protest Monitor: On the development of the German protest landscape from 1950-2022 - re-mobilisation of the number of protesters and a de-radicalisation of protest forms compared to the pandemic years 2020/21. Right-wing and Islamic extremists show social-organisational networks 000
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 19/12/2023From July 2021 to June 2023, PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans recorded 5,894 instances of book bans across 41 states and 247 public school districts. Compared to the previous two years, the number of bans has risen by 33%, but the number of individual titles baned is declining (5%) #bookbans 000
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 18/12/2023Writing books will change: Google's new test bed AI collaborator "NotebookLM", a so-called dynamic thought partner, i.e. creating a data set of your source material, which you drag into the tool from Google Docs or the clipboard (only available in the U.S. for now) 000
Gerhard Lauer @lauer.bsky.social · 17/12/2023Mandatory (for each head of state?): "The Queen’s Reading Room", dedicated to promoting the joy of reading. Authors, stars of stage and screen, share some of the books they simply couldn’t live without, - here, HM Queen, Dickens’ Manuscript, Royal Librarian Stella Panayotova #thequeensreadingroom 040
