Library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Bonn

The library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Bonn is today one of the world's largest scientific specialist libraries on the past and present of the labor movement. It is based in the Bonn headquarters of the foundation. It is a service provider for FES employees at home and abroad, but is also publicly accessible and makes its holdings available for general science and research on site and nationwide as part of interlibrary loan . It archives all printed and digitally published self-publications of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung .

FES library

history

The FES library sees itself as the “printed memory” of German social democracy and the German trade unions. When it was (re) established in 1969, the foundation was formed by the library of the research institute of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the library of the SPD party executive, which was handed over to the FES in trust. Originally, the archive (of social democracy) and the library formed an organizational unit; In 1987, the division into two separate work areas, which is still valid today, took place. Due to the special nature of its holdings, the library has been recognized and financially supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 1976 as a “special scientific library of national importance”. In 2010 it became a special collection area (SSG) library with the collection task “Parties and trade unions from Europe and North America (non-conventional literature)”. With the abandonment of the SSG system in 2013, DFG funding ceased; the collective focus “Publications of German Parties and Trade Unions” will be continued with a high degree of completeness.

Holdings, special collections

The library collects publications on the past and present of the German and international labor movement in its diverse organizational forms. Scientific publications on the German labor movement and German social history since the 19th century are acquired as completely as possible. The collection of so-called gray literature, that is, literature not published in bookshops, has a large scope ; in this case the publications of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the German trade unions , their predecessor and subsidiary organizations as well as friendly organizations ( workers welfare , workers sports and workers culture movement, Hans Böckler Foundation, etc.) - both in printed and digital form. Its status as a major trade union library won the FES library by acquiring a plurality of closed collections: about the libraries of the German Trade Union Federation , the Food, Beverages and Catering Union , the IG Bau-Minerals , the union media - pressure and paper, journalism and Art , the Education and Science Union , and the International Federation of Graphics and the International Federation of Metalworkers . Some of these collections were indexed and documented through their own inventories or databases.

The environment of the labor movement is reflected in the stocks of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt, the Seliger community and the Friends of Nature in Germany. The study library of the Karl-Marx-Haus Trier has also been located in Bonn since 2009 and is integrated into the FES library. For years, the library has been involved in the digitization of sources from its collection focus. The current project is the digitization of the central organ of German social democracy, Vorwärts .

FES library, magazine

Usage and service

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung library is a public reference library; It can be used by anyone on site during the opening hours. Inter-regional use is possible through interlibrary loan and a document delivery service. Aside from the local catalog, the library's holdings are listed in various national catalogs and research tools, such as the B3Kat, the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog or the WorldCat .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ The printed memory of the workers' movement: Festschrift for the 30th anniversary of the library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung . The Library, 1999, ISBN 3-86077-857-9 .

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[1] The printed memory of the workers' movement: Festschrift for the 30th anniversary of the library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung . The Library, 1999, ISBN 3-86077-857-9 .