Tallinn University Academic Library

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Logo of Tallinn University, the supporting body of the Academic Library
Academic Library building in downtown Tallinn

The Academic Library of Tallinn University ( Estonian Tallinna Ülikooli Akadeemiline Raamatukogu , TLÜ AR ) was founded in 1946. In 2003 it took over the function of Tallinn University Library (UB). From 1997 to 2005 it was known as the Estonian Academic Library ( Eesti Akadeemiline Raamatukogu , EAR ).

With a total inventory of around 2.5 million volumes, it is the third largest library in Estonia after the Tartu University Library and the Estonian National Library in Tallinn .

history

Tallinn University Academic Library

The Academic Library was established in April 1946 as the central library of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR . Your library collection was then about 90 percent from the 1940 resolved Library of Estonian Literary Society formed (ELG). This in turn went back to the holdings of the Estonian General Public Library (EAÖB) founded in 1825 and the Olaibibliothek zu Tallinn (German Reval ), founded in 1552 .

After Estonia gained independence in 1991, it became part of the Estonian Academy of Sciences and, at the beginning of the millennium, part of Tallinn University . In recent years, the catalog and the range of electronic media has been significantly expanded and expanded.

main building

The former Central Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR moved in 1966 into what is now the main building at Rävala Street 10. The building was an architectural monument of the socialist post-war modernism under monument protection provided.

Departments and Collections

General collections

As an archival library , the Academic Library receives mandatory copies of every publication published in the Republic of Estonia . Around 70 percent of the library's total holdings are foreign-language (i.e. non- Estonian ) literature. The thematic focus of the library extends over the subjects theology, philosophy, pedagogy, law, history, mathematics, natural sciences as well as literary studies with classical and modern philology.

In addition to the central library, the academic library is divided into six departmental libraries, which are assigned to the institutes and departments of Tallinn University. There are also branches in Haapsalu and Rakvere .

  • Sports library
  • Library of the Art Institute
  • Library of the Baltic Film and Media School
  • Library of the Estonian Institute of Human Sciences
  • Library of the Institute of History
  • Library of the Law Academy

Special collections

The special collections of the Academic Library include the Baltica and Rara sections and the Center for Estonian Exile Literature .

The Baltica department forms the old regional literary stock of the library, with literature on the former Baltic provinces of Estonia, Livonia and Courland , with only around 2/3 of the prints published before 1900 (approx. 500,000 printed media units) in the Baltica and Make Rara. The rest are literature from the first half of the 20th century and contemporary Baltics. The Baltica and Rara have a high proportion of German-language literature (around 60 percent) and are therefore not insignificant in terms of the German language history in the Baltic States. The oldest volumes in the Baltica date back to 1475. One of the volumes that is particularly valuable for the Estonian language is the bilingual manual and house book created between 1632 and 1637 by the German-Baltic pastor Heinrich Stahl . For the parish priests and fathers of Estonian principality .

See also

literature

  • Hellmuth Weiss : On the library history of Reval in the 16th and 17th centuries , Syntagma Friburgense, Lindau and Konstanz, 1956
  • Tiiu Reimo and Kyra Robert: The Estonian Literary Society and its Library , Tallinn, 1992
  • Klaus Garber : Treasure houses of the mind. Old libraries and book collections in the Baltic States , Böhlau Verlag , Vienna and Cologne, 2006

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description of the holdings of the Tallinn Academic Library in the science portal b2i
  2. ^ Stahl, Heinrich: Hand- and Hauszbuches for the parish priests and fathers of Estonian principality , Estonian electronic library catalog ESTER

Web links

Coordinates: 59 ° 26 ′ 0 ″  N , 24 ° 45 ′ 12 ″  E