Carolin Rohrßen

Carolin Rohrßen was born on January 28, 1981 in Hanover, Germany. She spent her childhood together with her parents and his younger brother in Steinhude, Lower Saxony.

After graduating from high school in 2000, she started a vocational training as computer scientist at the b.i.b. International College. She dealed successfully with programming, databases, web-development as well as web-design and interactive multimedia systems. Carolin Rohrßen got her qualification in September 2003.

A few months later, in 2004, she started studying library and information science at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and at the moment she is developing a public relations concept for the Youth Library Hoeb4u as part of her dissertation. During her studies she chose management, culture and media as her majors. That means, Carolin Rohrßen dealed not only with controlling, total quality management and network economics, but also with literary event management, concepts for the acquisitions of reading skills and the rearrangement of a school library. Furthermore she planned, together with other students, the implementation and logistics of the relocation for the library of the Bucerius Law School and the children’s program for the 100th birthday of Astrid Lindgren in the catholic academy of Hamburg.

Carolin Rohrßen completed several internships and jobs to gain work experience. At the beginning of her study, two practical trainings, one in a public library and one in an academic library made sure that she took the first steps into a librarian’s working life. Afterwards she worked as an intern for six months at the library of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. There it was her task to input a large children’s book collection into the stock. To learn more about the everyday life of a text documentation, Carolin Rohrßen did an internship at the publishing house Gruner+Jahr and worked at the department Recherche, Presse & Buch in the Northern German Broadcasting Agency NDR. In the future she would like to have a job in the branch of public relations, marketing or publishing.