Library train
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 Main entrance
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| Duration | > 170,000 units (2019) |
| Library type | Cantonal library , city library |
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Zug (city) 
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| ISIL | CH-000063-8 |
| management | Pia-Maria Rutishauser |
| Website | bibliothekzug.ch |
The Zug library (formerly the city and canton library of Zug ) is the public library for the city and canton of Zug. It offers a diverse, free range of media and events for all age groups. The library includes a study library with individual workstations, group rooms, WiFi and a large selection of reference works. As a cantonal library , it collects Zugerian publications, the so-called Tugiensia .
history
The city library was officially founded in 1836. However, its beginnings go back to the 15th century; the first forerunner was the libery St. Oswald in St. Oswald's Church , the first stage of which was completed in 1480 by the Zug parish priest, Magister Johannes Eberhard. The books of the libery St. Oswald found their way into the first public library in Zug in the middle of the 18th century. Its establishment opposite the current location of the library was suggested in 1758 by dean and pastor Beat Karl Anton Wolfgang Wickart and supported by the government of the city of Zug.
In 1806 the municipality of Zug became the owner of the book collection by a resolution of the city council, which after an interlude in the Capuchin monastery had meanwhile been transferred to the rectory of Johann Konrad Bossard. In order to make the library accessible to a wider public, the city council decided in 1833 to divide the holdings: into a non-public library for clergy in the rectory and the newly founded civic library in the Zurlaubenpfrundhaus, which opened on July 1, 1838. For the first time, Carl Caspar Keizer was elected a city librarian to look after the burger library.
In 1874 the town library came into the possession of the local community. Due to the greatly increased holdings, the city library moved to the former city armory in 1910. Since 1941, on the basis of the "library contract" between the municipality of Zug and the government council of the canton of Zug, it has taken on the role and duties of the cantonal library. Your first full-time librarian was Hans Koch from 1945.
The opening of an open access library in 1974 marked a turning point in its use. The massive increase in the holdings and users led to the move to the current address in 1986 - the year of the 150th anniversary of the city library. The building was a granary in the Middle Ages and was later converted into a barracks building . In connection with the study library opened in 2011 in the basement of the former cantonal arsenal, the contract between the city and the canton was revised, for example the name was changed to the more accessible form of the Zug library .
Duration
General inventory
In the Zug library there are around 95,000 media (books, audio books, maps, DVDs, BluRay discs, music CDs and language courses) and around 170 magazines in the open access area. The digital library contains around 37,000 media for electronic lending as well as a streaming platform for music with around 5 million titles. It is also possible to borrow digital devices such as Tolino eBook readers, virtual reality glasses or Tonie hearing aids for children. The Zug library acquires around 16,000 items every year.
There are around 39,000 media in the magazine. These are basic works from various specialist areas.
Zug Collection (Tugiensia)
As a cantonal library, the Zug library collects publications with Zug content, authors and publications published in Zug. These works are called Tugiensia. The Zug collection contains around 37,000 media of all kinds.
The Zug collection offers, among other things
- historical book holdings
- a comprehensive range of Zug newspapers since the 19th century
- Zug magazines
- Photographs, posters and digitized postcards, films, videos, audio documents
- Small print in around 1,900 topic dossiers
- Zug bibliography, which contains a selection of documents (in addition to books, maps, audiovisual media or games) that have a substantive (and factual) relationship to the Canton of Zug
The holdings of the Zug collection can be found in the online catalog or in the directories of the special collections on the Zug library website. Some older Zug publications are still listed in card catalogs. The Tugiensia can be consulted on site, although in recent years ever larger parts of the collection have become accessible for online access.
In cooperation with the Zug City Archives, the Zug Library has been managing the ZugDigital online portal since 2019, which links to books, magazines, newspapers, photographs, geographic maps and databases on the history and culture of the city and canton of Zug.
use
The library is available to all people who live in the Zug region, work in the canton of Zug or go to school. If possible, documents that are not available in the Zug library are obtained via the interlibrary loan system. The Zug library has more than 13,000 registered, active users. Over 562,000 media were loaned out in 2018.
In recent years the library has steadily expanded its program of events. Among other things, there are lectures and readings for adults, but also story times for children.
Since 2011, the study library at Kirchenstrasse 6 not far from the library has offered over 100 workplaces for quiet work and group rooms for mutual exchange. With a special library card, access to the study library is possible Monday to Saturday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Catalogs
Online catalog
The online catalog, which has been integrated into the new website since March 2020, comprises over 160,000 documents from the holdings of the adult and children's library, the study library, the magazine and the library of the Zug Music School (MSB). The search can be restricted by media type.
Directories of the Zug collection
The special collections of the Zug Collection are listed in separate directories on the Zug library website. These include small print and digitized postcards.
Card catalogs
Media that were purchased before 1990 can be found in the card catalog. This consists of:
- Alphabetical catalog according to author and title (anonymous, journals, etc.)
- Subject catalog (according to decimal classification )
- Zug bibliography
architectural art
The facade of the Zug library building has only been labeled since autumn 2017. The lettering on the south and west facade was designed by the Zug graphic artist Heiri Scherer and is kept in the same style as the lettering on the town hall and on numerous buildings in the old town. It consists of different pairs of terms that are arranged on two lines. Since September 2014, the light installation "UND" by the Baar artist Markus Uhr has been shining on the north facade when it gets dark. In addition to various pictures, the paintings by Andreas Walser and Albert Merz stand out in the interior of the library. Walser's vault painting has been decorating the ceiling of the magazine room since 1987, while the mural and the associated frieze by the Unteräger artist Merz have shaped the entrance hall since Easter 1988. Since January 2020, a ball by the Zug artist Eugen Jans has adorned the entrance area. Jans created it in 1999 from regional poplar wood.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Commemorative publication from 1986: Zug City Library: for the opening of the Zug City and Cantonal Library / by Gerhard Matter ... (among others). Train: Bacon, cop. 1986. (Contributions to the history of Zug; 6)
- ↑ cf. Infanger-Christen, Mirjam / Marti, Hanspeter: Stadt- und Kantonsbibliothek Zug, in: Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical book collections in Switzerland, vol. 3. Cantons Uri to Zurich, register. Zurich: Olms-Weidmann, 2011, p. 195.
- ↑ cf. Infanger-Christen, Mirjam / Marti, Hanspeter: Stadt- und Kantonsbibliothek Zug, in: Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical book collections in Switzerland, vol. 3. Cantons Uri to Zurich, register. Zurich: Olms-Weidmann, 2011, p. 196.
- ↑ cf. Commemorative publication from 1986: Zug City Library: for the opening of the Zug City and Cantonal Library / by Gerhard Matter ... (among others). Train: Bacon, cop. 1986, p. 1. (Contributions to the history of Zug; 6)
- ↑ cf. Infanger-Christen, Mirjam / Marti, Hanspeter: Stadt- und Kantonsbibliothek Zug, in: Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical book collections in Switzerland, vol. 3. Cantons Uri to Zurich, register. Zurich: Olms-Weidmann, 2011, pp. 196–197.
- ↑ cf. Infanger-Christen, Mirjam / Marti, Hanspeter: Stadt- und Kantonsbibliothek Zug, in: Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical book collections in Switzerland, vol. 3. Cantons Uri to Zurich, register. Zurich: Olms-Weidmann, 2011, p. 197.
- ↑ cf. https://www.bibliothekzug.ch/documents/308032/326288/jahresbericht_20190606_jahresbericht-2018_web.pdf/d2e5f045-d1c8-de7f-e69f-8843677d8ab5/
- ↑ cf. https://www.bibliothekzug.ch/documents/308032/326288/ Jahresbericht_20190606_jahresbericht-2018_web.pdf/d2e5f045-d1c8-de7f-e69f-8843677d8ab5
- ↑ cf. https://buchort.ch/bibliothek-zug-zug