Library of the University of Transport "Friedrich List"

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Library of the University of Transport "Friedrich List"
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founding 1952
Duration approx. 375,000 volumes
Library type University library
place Dresden
management Helmut Zesewitz (around 1987)

The library of the University of Transport "Friedrich List" (abbreviation BHfV ) was the university library of the University of Transport (HfV) in Dresden . The library, founded in 1952, was dissolved in 1992 when the university of the same name was dissolved. Her holdings of more than 375,000 volumes and 1,400 specialist journals were transferred to the Dresden University Library (today's SLUB Dresden ) and the library of the University of Technology and Economics (HTW).

It was the central archive library for the entire transport system in the German Democratic Republic .

Structure and inventory

In 1986 the inventory comprised 355,000 volumes, including around 130,000 volumes from the transport and communications sector. These included, among other things, a collection of company publications from the transport and communications sector, the complete inventory of service regulations and tariff lists for all modes of transport and a complete collection of standards for transport and communications. In addition, an extensive inventory was kept for philatelists and model making . In the 1950s, around a third of the holdings consisted of specialist literature on transport and communications, publications from the natural sciences and technology, and socio-scientific works. At the same time, there were reference libraries at chairs and institutes, which together made up around a third of the total stock of books and journals at the HfV.

The library had cooperation agreements with the ministries for higher education and technical colleges, for post and telecommunications as well as the interior. Cooperation agreements of the University of Transport and Combines , institutions and facilities of socialist practice always contained agreements on cooperation between libraries and information facilities with the BHfV. The library had about 20 partnerships with (especially socialist) countries abroad and had the largest inventory of original Soviet literature on transport and communications in the GDR. It also maintained cooperative relationships with almost all technical colleges and universities. As part of the exchange of documents, all universities in the GDR sent documents that had been received from major foreign countries to the BHfV.

Newly enrolled lessons received a one-hour briefing and were then led through the library. The library director had been represented in the university's senate since September 1953 and was directly subordinate to the university's rector.

The university's own bookbinding shop also belonged to the library.

The signature system introduced in 1952 consisted of the year of purchase, the size format and the serial number of the respective title.

history

Ordinance and first implementing ordinance on the establishment of the HfV of March 6, 1952

By resolution of the Council of Ministers of March 6, 1952, not only the establishment of the University of Transport, but also the establishment of the university's own library was decided. It was opened when the HfV was founded on October 1, 1952.

Hettnerstrasse building (1952), today's Gerhart Potthoff building

The library began operations on October 1, 1952, initially with 16,000 books. It initially employed five people who came from the Saxon government library and was initially temporarily housed in a 26-meter-long room in the Hettnerstrasse building , which later became the railway operations field. After an interim move in the building in April 1953, the library finally moved into its completed rooms in April 1954 on three floors of the second part of the building, which has meanwhile been completed.

Charlotte Boden acted as founding director. Among other things, she was reappointed director in 1962 and 1964.

In 1953 a first, provisional reading room was set up and the establishment of a documentation center began. The scientific journal ( ZDB -ID 530000-9 ) published by the library appeared for the first time this year. In the same year the library designed a special exhibition on Karl Marx .

In 1954, the Institute for Documentation began to publish the documentation service for transport - land transport, water transport, mail and communications . In April 1957, employees of the specialist documentation department moved into additional rooms.

The basic stock of 38,000 volumes was mainly made up of 23,000 volumes from the central library of the Saxon state government, which transferred its entire inventory from the natural science, technology and transport departments as well as multiple copies of the social sciences to the BHfV. Another 12,000 volumes were obtained from the library of the Ministry of Transport and another 3,000 volumes from a seminar at the University of Halle .

Between 1953 and 1955 the library had a total of more than 235,000 marks available for new acquisitions . Between 1953 and 1956 almost 335,000 marks were spent on acquisitions. Of this, 31% came from the GDR, 47% from the Federal Republic of Germany, 13% from the Soviet Union and the rest of the socialist countries, and 9% from the rest of the west.

In 1955 the stock comprised 69,000 volumes. More than 2000 users together checked out almost 30,000 volumes. In the same year the establishment of a bookbindery began. In 1956 the library comprised 62,000 volumes. By 1958 the inventory increased again to 70,000 volumes. The library held around 675 magazines at that time.

In August 1956 the Senate of the HfV rejected a proposal from the TH Dresden to merge the libraries of the HfV and TH, since the HfV library functions as a collective library for an entire branch of industry.

In the mid-1960s, the library had more than 100,000 volumes and loaned out around 80,000 volumes annually. The documentation center comprised 325,000 cards from 25 different documentation services. In the mid-1960s, a second reading room was to be set up in the central institute building (today's main building of the HTW Dresden) (status: 1964). By the end of the 1960s, the inventory reached 150,000 volumes.

In October 1976 a chain of microfilm machines was put into operation. With this, around 120 magazine titles were filmed regularly. In 1983 the conception of a PC-based lending system began, which was largely developed by two students and finally introduced in 1986. With the trial run started on September 8, 1986 - for the first time in the higher education system of the GDR - loan bookings could be made independently by the users.

In 1977 the library had 271,000 volumes, in 1982 305,000; the number of users was 5,000 each.

During the 1980s, the library periodically published bibliographies and lists of new acquisitions of Soviet railway, shipping and motor vehicle literature.

With the passing of the Saxon University Structure Act of April 10, 1992, the dissolution of the University of Transport was resolved on September 30, 1992. Parts of it were transferred to today's “Friedrich List” Faculty of Transport Sciences and the University of Technology and Economics. As part of this process, the library was also dissolved. The library inventory of 350,000 volumes at that time was also intended to provide the basic inventory for training at the new HTW. On June 1, 1991, a working group made up of academics and librarians from both universities was established to organize the transition. The panel decided to set up expert groups to organize the transition, which also included staff and inventory.

On October 1, 1992, the first joint staff event for the approximately 240 employees of the Dresden University Library and the library of the University of Transport was held.

The civil engineering / transport science branch library was located in the Potthoff building for a few years before it was integrated into the DrePunct departmental library .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The future of the unique transport science potential in Dresden: Three decision alternatives . Dresden, October 8, 1991, pp. 6, 7, 19 ff.
  2. ↑ a b Messages from the Dresden University Library , ISSN  0863-2030 , 4th year, 1992, issue 2, p. 7.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Helmut Zesewitz: 35 years of library at the University of Transport “Friedrich List” . In: Central Journal for Libraries . Vol. 101, Issue 11, November 1987, ISSN  0044-4081 , pp. 496-499.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Dieter Preuss: For the history and origin of the University of Transport "Friedrich List" Dresden and its development into a socialist teaching, education and research facility (1949/1952 - 1961), Fire I . Dissertation, Dresden, 1984, pp. 87-89.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Charlotte Boden: The library of the University of Transport “Friedrich List” in the unified socialist education system . In: Scientific journal of the University of Transport "Friedrich List" , vol. 11 (1964), issue 3, pp. 401–404.
  6. ↑ a b c d Dieter Preuß, Gerhard Rehbein (ed.): CHRONICLE of the University of Transport “Friedrich List” Dresden 1952-1961 . (University of Transport "Friedrich List" (ed.): Scientific journal , special issue 5), ISSN  0043-6844 , pp. 9, 14, 16, 44.
  7. ↑ a b Helmut Zesewitz, Rainer Schuhknecht: Rationalization of the loan process through the use of an office computer in the library of the University of Transport “Friedrich List” Dresden . In: Methodical Center for Scientific Libraries and Information and Documentation Facilities of the Ministry of Higher and Technical Higher Education (Ed.): Contributions to the use of EDP in the scientific libraries of the GDR . 1st edition. Berlin 1986, p. 133-149 .
  8. ↑ a b c d e f Charlotte Boden: The university library for the first five years of its existence . In: University of Transportation (ed.): Scientific journal . tape 5 , 1957, ISSN  0043-6844 , pp. 239-244 .
  9. ↑ Dieter Preuß, Siegfried Heinze, Gerhard Rehbein (eds.): CHRONICLE of the University of Transport “Friedrich List” Dresden 1961-1971 . (University of Transport "Friedrich List" (ed.): Scientific journal , special issue 16), ISSN  0043-6844 , p. 23 f, 54.
  10. ^ University of Transportation: Instructions for studying at the University of Transportation in Dresden . Dresden, January 1958, pp. 4 f, 8.
  11. ↑ Werner Groß, Steffen Haufe, Dieter Preuß (eds.): CHRONICLE of the University of Transport "Friedrich List" Dresden 1971-1977 . (University of Transportation “Friedrich List” (ed.): Scientific journal , special issue 19), ISSN  0043-6844 , p. 78.
  12. ↑ Dieter Preuß, Falk-Rainer Fries: CHRONICLE of the University of Transport "Friedrich List" Dresden. Part V: January 1985-December 1987 . Ed .: University of Transport "Friedrich List" (=  scientific journal . Special issue 39). 1988, ISSN  0043-6844 , p. 40 .
  13. ↑ Helmut Zesewitz: The university library in the 30th year of its existence . In: University of Transportation (ed.): Scientific journal . tape 29 , 1982, ISSN  0043-6844 , pp. 448-450 .
  14. ^ Messages from the Dresden University Library , ISSN  0863-2030 , 4th year, 1992, issue 4, p. 7 f.