Berndt from Egidy

Berndt von Egidy (born July 19, 1938 in Dresden ) is a German librarian . From 1991 to 2003 he was director of the University Library of Tübingen .

Live and act

After graduating from high school in Bonn (1959), Berndt von Egidy studied history and English at the universities of Bonn , Göttingen and Exeter . In 1966 he passed the state examination. The doctorate took place in 1970 at the University of Bonn. From 1969 to 1971 he trained for the higher library service at the Heidelberg University Library and the library school in Frankfurt / M. After a six-month stay at the State Library in Pretoria (South Africa), he first worked at the Heidelberg University Library and in 1973 moved to the library of the University of Essen . There he headed the department “Coordination of the specialist library and the inventory structure”, since 1977 the department “Specialized libraries and use”. In 1978 he became deputy director of the Tübingen University Library , which he then headed from 1991 to 2003 as chief library director.

From 1995 to 1997 Egidy was chairman of the Association of German Librarians (VDB). As an advisor to UNESCO, he was involved in the establishment and organization of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt) in 2000 and 2001 .

An important focus of his Tübingen professional years was the planning and organization of the extension of the Tübingen University Library ("Ammerbau"), which was available in 2002; this also involved the dissolution of an alternative magazine that had existed since 1981.

Fonts (selection)

• The elections in the Duchy of Nassau 1848–1852. A contribution to the history of the political movement on the Middle Rhine . In: Nassauische Annalen, Volume 82 (1971), pp. 215-306 (dissertation).
• The first specialist library of the comprehensive university in Essen in the new building . In: Mitteilungsblatt / Association of Libraries of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Vol. 24 (1974), pp. 313-324.
• The South African library system . In: Bibliothek und Wissenschaft, Vol. 9 (1975), pp. 1-36.
• 300 years of family von Egidy 1687–1987 , Tübingen 1987 (together with Arndt von Egidy and others).
• New construction or retirement. Opportunities to relieve overcrowded institute libraries . In: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie, Vol. 36 (1989), pp. 311–333.
• Technical supervision in the library system of an old university. Opportunities for collaboration . In: Bibliothek, Forschung und Praxis, Vol. 14 (1990), pp. 156-164.
• Cooperation and technical supervision in the two-tier library system using the example of the Tübingen University Library . In: Rolf Busch (ed.): Between cooperation and the right to issue instructions. Current problems of the FU library system and West German experiences , Department for training and further education, Free University of Berlin 1990 (Contributions to library training, volume 4), pp. 28–45, ISBN 3-927474-40-1 .
• Ex oriente pleasure and burden. The Tübingen special collection area 6.23 (Middle East) . In: Gisela Weber (Ed.): Order and System. Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Hermann Josef Dörpinghaus , Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 1997, pp. 81–95, ISBN 3-527-29490-2 .
• Acquisition policy and success control in a university library system . In: Sabine Wefers (Ed.): Using resources for new tasks. 86th German Librarian's Day in Erlangen , Klostermann, Frankfurt / M. 1997, pp. 226-234, ISBN 3-465-02908-9 .
• Do libraries still have a future? In Joachim Knape (ed.): Perspektiven der Buch- und Kommunikationkultur , Osiander, Tübingen 2000, pp. 133-143, ISBN 3-926326-20-4 .
• A fairy tale from 1001 nights. The new library in Alexandria . In: Antonius Jammers (Ed.): Planen und Gestalten. Festgabe for Günter Baron , Reichert, Wiesbaden 2001 (contributions from the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage, Volume 13), pp. 71–80, ISBN 3-89500-224-0 .
• The end of growth. For the resources, staff and building requirements of the Tübingen university library. In: Ammerbau of the University Library of Tübingen. [a project of the state building administration] / [ed. Ministry of Finance Baden-Württemberg]. Staatsanzeiger-Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, pp. 24–36.
• From the development of a royal project. The new library in Alexandria . In: Buch und Bibliothek, Vol., 54 (2002), pp. 99-103.
• Twenty kilometers of books beyond the bunting. The new extension of the Tübingen university library . In: Buch und Bibliothek, Vol. 55 (2003), pp. 149–157.
• Find and restitution of the Caesar Hirsch library . In: Jewish book possession as booty . An event of the Lower Saxony State Parliament and the Lower Saxony State Library; Symposium in the Lower Saxony State Parliament on November 14, 2002, Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 2003 (series of publications by the Lower Saxony State Parliament, issue 50), pp. 66–70.

Sources / individual references

• Yearbook of the German Libraries , Volume 50 (1983), p. 392 and Volume 66 (2015/2016), p. 376.
• Foreword by Ulrich Schapka. In: Bettina Fiand et al. (Ed.): "Fest-Platte". Contributions from the University Library Tübingen for Berndt von Egidy on the occasion of his retirement from active library service in July 2003 , University Library Tübingen 2003, pp. VII – IX.