Library of the Technical University of Nuremberg Georg Simon Ohm
| Library of the Technical University of Nuremberg Georg Simon Ohm | |
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| Library type | University library |
| place | Nuremberg |
| ISIL | DE-92 |
| Website | https://www.th-nuernberg.de/einrichtungen-haben/zentrale-einrichtungen/bibliothek/ |
The library of the Technical University of Nuremberg Georg Simon Ohm serves as a public scientific library for study, research and teaching. With its media and information resources, it is available to university members, but also to all interested parties, for further training and information. The library sees it as its core task to support users with information research and imparting media skills with their knowledge.
history
Little is known about the beginnings of the library. The first forerunner schools of the Technical University of Nuremberg Georg Simon were founded around 1800 during the industrialization. It is unclear whether there was already a library in these schools . It was only in the commemorative publication published in 1933 for the centenary of the state technical schools that it was mentioned that in 1823 the director of the Polytechnic School was also responsible for library matters. The sources for this Festschrift, as well as around three-quarters of the library holdings and almost all catalogs, must have fallen victim to the bomb attack on Nuremberg on January 2, 1945. The remaining holdings were provided with numerus currens signatures . By the time it was destroyed, around 25,000 consecutive numbers had been assigned. From this, a stock of around 100,000 volumes can be extrapolated, since multi-volume works, multiple copies, newer editions and all volumes of a journal were each recorded under a common number.
When the Polytechnic School moved into a new building on Keßlerplatz in 1904, the "extensive library" was also housed in it. Little is known of this library because the Ohm-Polytechnikum (successor to the Polytechnic School) was badly hit in the bombing raid on Nuremberg on January 2, 1945. The library building and a large part of the book inventory were destroyed.
Teaching at the Ohm Polytechnic was resumed on March 15, 1946. The remaining library holdings were re- cataloged and administered by an employee . For the next few decades, the management of the library lay in the hands of various lecturers . In addition, the library changed its location several times.
In 1970 the library moved into a new building on Liebigstrasse. The old stock with approx. 35,000 volumes as well as the current 15,000 volumes were housed there on an area of 500 m². A reading room with 40 workstations and a lending desk with 2 staff workstations were also built.
When the university was founded in its current form in 1971, the library holdings of the Ohm Polytechnic (then approx. 40,000 volumes) were transferred to the university's holdings. This library probably had supra-regional importance before, as it was given a loan sign at an early stage . The libraries of the other predecessor schools also passed into state ownership and became three decentralized sub-libraries, which were distributed over the city of Nuremberg together with the respective departments.
In 1975, the establishment of a branch library for social affairs began. The business administration branch library was initially housed in a very confined space and only moved into sufficiently large rooms in 1981. There was also a smaller design library, which was officially set up in 1984.
The Central Library was remodeled in 1979 and made possible from that date open access all the literature, as it still exists today. Only the old stocks remained in the magazine.
In 1997/1998, when the design department was rebuilt, the holdings of the branch library there were integrated into the central library. In 1999 the business administration and social affairs departments moved into the joint new building on Bahnhofstrasse. The two branch libraries were temporarily merged here. The branch library for business administration and social sciences is still in this building today.
In the course of an appraisal by the General Directorate of the Bavarian State Libraries, library management was assigned to a qualified librarian in 1977, who for the first time had her own budget .
media
- Central Library
With around 78,000 media units ( books , magazines , electronic media ), the central library comprises a large part of the total holdings. It serves to supply the faculty of design and all technical faculties with literature, whereby the focus is on the subjects of art, design, mathematical and scientific basic literature as well as computer science and all technical subjects.
- Branch library
The branch library supplies the business administration and social sciences faculties with specialist literature on site in their building on Bahnhofstrasse . The branch library offers around 73,000 media units (books, magazines, electronic media).
- Reference library for computer science
In the reference library of the Faculty of Computer Science there is specialist literature on reference use and on short-term loans within the university.
- Magazine inventory
The old holdings from the central store at Keßlerplatz can be ordered through the OPAC , if they are recorded in the OPAC , otherwise at the lending desk of the central library.
- Electronic media
In addition to physical media (books, magazines, CD-ROMs , DVDs, etc.), the library also provides a selection of digital media . Access is usually possible in the entire university network (campus license).
The historical sources, which are all freely available, are an exception. The total inventory of around 280,000 media units (print and online; as of 2015) is recorded in the university library's joint online catalog (OPACplus) .
literature
- Ernst Georg Deuerlein: Higher Technical State College Nuremberg. Festschrift for the centenary of the state technical educational institutions in Nuremberg. 1833-1933. Nuremberg, 1933.
- Doris Keßler (ed.): Study for practice. 1823-1998. [175 years of the Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg]. German Hochschul-Verlag, Obertshausen, 1998.
- Gunthild Kilchert: The library of the Georg-Simon-Ohm-Fachhochschule in Nuremberg. In: Bibliotheksforum Bayern 12 (2), 1984, pp. 169–176.
- Christine Knab: From the house solution to the classification system. In: Georg Ruppelt (ed.): Information and the public. 1st joint congress of the Federal Association of German Library Associations V. (BDB) and the German Society for Information Science and Information Practice e. V. (DGI) Leipzig March 20 to 23, 2000: at the same time 90th German Librarians' Day 52nd annual conference of the German Society for Information Science and Information Practice eV (DGI). Wiesbaden (German Society for Information Science and Information Practice: Meetings of the German Society for Information Science and Information Practice, 3), 2000, pp. 325–334.