Hohenheim University Library
| Hohenheim University Library | |
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| founding | 1973 |
| Duration | approx. 510,000 volumes |
| Library type | University library |
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Hohenheim 
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| ISIL | DE-100 |
| management | Karl-Wilhelm Horstmann |
| Website | kim.uni-hohenheim.de |
The Hohenheim University Library is a central facility of the University of Hohenheim for research and teaching in Stuttgart . Large parts of the university are housed in Hohenheim Palace. It is a scientific library for all users of the region. The state of Baden-Württemberg provides support . Like the university itself, its origins date back to 1818. Today it is used by around 6,000 students from the faculties and is also available to the public .
On January 1, 2011, the university library, the university computer center and the IT of the university administration became the communication, information and media center (KIM) of the University of Hohenheim.
Collecting areas
The library system of the University of Hohenheim traditionally has divided collection areas . Like most of the old universities, the system was designed in two layers ( dual library system ). The general collection areas of the central library include general and applied natural sciences, in particular biology and food technology (agricultural sciences) along with the entire textbook collection for all subjects. The holdings for economics and social sciences ( reference library ) can be found in the so-called departmental library in the Hohenheim Palace . The agriculture of the tropics and subtropics as well as the banking industry belong to the special - special - collecting areas .
The library's holdings today include around 510,000 volumes and a total of 1,400 periodicals and newspapers held as print subscriptions. There are also 740 licensed electronic journals and a further 7000 electronic journals via full-text databases (as of 2005).
History of the library holdings
The library was founded in 1818 by the royal couple, Queen Katharina Pawlowna and King Wilhelm I of Württemberg . It was intended to build an agricultural teaching, experimental and model institute in Hohenheim. At the same time the establishment of the Agricultural Institute was ordered. The first director of the institute was Johann Nepomuk Schwerz (1759–1844). Under his aegis not only should the idea of modern agriculture have been promoted, but he should also have made acquisitions for the library in a systematic manner. The institute's first surviving catalog from 1821 lists the most important and most recent literature for the time.
Barely ten years later, in 1828, the stocks carried were Wilhelm Heinrich von Gwinner , a German forester and successor of Schwerz, for specific purposes by chairs of the Institute Agriculture , Forestry , technology , veterinary science , natural history , natural science , chemistry and mathematics - aligned and positioned. Without journals, the alphabetical index in 1834 already listed 1,249 titles in the aforementioned areas. A little later the catalog already comprised around 2500 titles; In 1867 about 5000 titles are listed. The library grew steadily until the First World War.
Spatially limited and ultimately for budget-related and personnel reasons stagnation found its way into the library. Nevertheless, in the 1960s the agricultural and forestry stock represented itself in fabulous condition up to 1918, and in a national comparison there were no gaps in the southwest and southern German literature.
Since the mid-1970s, the library has been able to develop positively again. As early as 1968 the central library got its own library building for the first time. After the establishment of an economics course in 1975, the Departmental Library of Economics and Social Sciences was founded as part of the university library.
Stock description
As a central facility of the university, the library primarily serves to meet the requirements of research and teaching. As a scientific library, however, it is also open to other users. It is a special library geared towards the subject areas of the university.
The forest science older book stocks (still from the times of the Agricultural University Hohenheim) have for the most part been given to the forest science faculty library in Freiburg.
From the total stock, around 6300 titles can be assigned to the historical book stock. These fall from the 16th to 19th centuries. More than 90 percent of the old stock is in German, followed by French literature (262 titles). The English language has 74 titles, the Italian 56 and the Latin 55 works.
Today media is collected and archived in printed and digital form with a focus on agricultural, bio and economic sciences. If the degree of utilization is expected to be low, literature will not be obtained if the title is already available in other academic libraries in the country or can be expected there. Both parts of the library are as lending libraries organized, both for books and for magazines. In the central library, the monographic holdings are systematically organized according to the Regensburg network classification (Regensburg systematics). An in-house system is used in the departmental library.
literature
- Franz, Günther: The library of the agricultural university Hohenheim. In: In libro humanitas. Festschrift for Wilhelm Hoffmann on his 60th birthday. Klett, Stuttgart 1962, pp. 139-150.
- Jörg Martin: Hohenheim University Library. In: DFW: Documentation, Information. Special issue Library Congress Stuttgart 1978. 1978, pp. 53–58.
- Jörg Martin: 27 years of Hohenheim University Library (1973 - 2000). In: Hohenheim themes. Vol. 9, 2000, pp. 69-150.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Central Library ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Departmental Library ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Controlling concept for the Hohenheim University Library Analysis of the existing controlling practice and considerations for further development
