Library of the Deutsches Museum

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Library of the Deutsches Museum
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The library building of the Deutsches Museum

founding 1903
Duration around 950,000 volumes plus 27,000 periodicals
Library type History of science and technology
place Munich coordinates: 48 ° 7 '49.4 "  N , 11 ° 35' 2.8"  EWorld icon
ISIL DE-210
operator German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology AdöR
management Helmut Hilz
Website http://www.deutsches-museum.de/bibliothek/

The library of the Deutsches Museum is a special library for the history of science and technology in Munich . It has a collection of sources and literature from six centuries that is unique worldwide; In addition, with around 950,000 volumes, it is the largest museum library in Germany. The operator is the German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology AdöR, the library forms a main department.

General

The historical reading rooms have 125 seats and are organized as a reference library ; this is open to the public free of charge and is open every day, with a few exceptional days. In addition to its focus on the user segment with a general interest in technology, it acts as a research library for technology and natural science historians. Since the end of 2015, the museum library has been a specialist information service library for the history of technology as part of the scientific literature supply and information systems of the German Research Foundation.

Together with the archive and the collections of exhibits, the library is an integral part of the research infrastructure for technology and science historians in Munich. The library's total inventory today comprises more than 960,000 volumes (as of December 31, 2015). In addition to monographs, around 20,000 print periodicals are available, of which around 3,300 are currently being purchased. The library of the Deutsches Museum belongs to the Bavarian Library Association and its holdings can be researched using the Worldcat .

history

Oskar von Miller, founder of the Deutsches Museum
The first location of the library was at Maximilianstrasse 26, today the Museum Five Continents is housed there

The library was founded in 1903 on the initiative of Oskar von Miller and the rector of the Technical University of Munich and member of the museum board of the Deutsches Museum Walther von Dyck at the same time as the museum. From 1908 it was open to the public. Like the museum, it was initially located at Maximilianstrasse 26, in the building of the former National Museum, which today houses the Museum of Five Continents . The library was closed during the First World War , in 1925/26 it moved close to the collection house of the German Historical Museum, which opened in 1925, on Erhardtstrasse. According to plans by the architect German Bestelmeyer , a separate library building was built opposite the collection house from 1928, which was opened on May 7, 1932. During the Second World War , the upper floor of the library was destroyed, but the book holdings on the ground floor remained intact. The German Patent Office , which like many other institutions used the library premises after the war, restored it and used it as a magazine. The premises were returned to the library in 1959. In 1963 the newly founded research institute of the Deutsches Museum for the history of science and technology as well as related institutes of the university and the technical university were housed in the library building.

The old stock comprises over 300,000 volumes, mainly literature from the 19th and first half of the 20th century (as of 2007). The Libri rari , appearances before 1800, which have been kept in their own collection since the 1950s, are a specialty .

particularities

One of the reading rooms

As a specialized library opens the library since 1907 in addition to monographs and essays thematically relevant journals. The indexing of these dependently published articles takes place both formally and in terms of content with the allocation of keywords from the common authority file . In this way, subject-relevant articles in the library and union catalog can be researched. Since normally only the journals and series are listed as a whole in the catalog, the listing of articles and essays is a specialty.

The library of the Deutsches Museum traditionally receives a large part of the media it receives every year as a gift. The collection, which is considerably large for a museum library, is due, among other things, to the decades-long association of many founder publishers, as well as to subject-specific donations from companies, associations and private individuals. In 2015, the percentage of donated media access was over 70%.

literature

  • Ludwig Hartmann: The provisional library of the German Museum. In: Treatises and reports of the Deutsches Museum 2 (1930) H. 1, pp. 17–31.
  • Hans Krüger-Kulm: The library of the German Museum. In: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel 104 (1937) No. 10, pp. 36–38.
  • Friedrich Klemm: The library of the German Museum. Munich 1960.
  • Ernst H. Berninger: The library of the German Museum in Munich. Central research and archive library for technical culture. In: Bibliotheksforum Bayern 16 (1988) H. 2, pp. 154-163.
  • Ernst H. Berninger: Library of the German Museum. (As of July 1993). In: Handbook of the historical book inventory in Germany. Vol. 10. Hildesheim 1996. pp. 211-218.
  • Wolfgang M. Heckl (Ed.): Technology World Change: The Collections of the Deutsches Museum , updated new edition, ISBN 978-3-940396-41-9 , pp. 282–285
  • Helmut Hilz: Hundred years of library of the Deutsches Museum Research library for the history of science and technology. In: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 50 (2003), pp. 260–268.
  • Helmut Hilz: 75 years of the library on Munich's Museum Island. In: Kultur & Technik 31 (2007), Heft 2, pp. 50–54.
  • Helmut Hilz: The library of the German Museum . Munich 2017.

Web links

Commons : Library of the Deutsches Museum  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.deutsches-museum.de/bibliothek/unsere-geschichte/
  2. ↑ http://www.deutsches-museum.de/forschung/wissenschaftl-mitarbeiter/dr-helmut-hilz/
  3. ↑ http://www.deutsches-museum.de/bibliothek/profil-Stock/
  4. ^ Deutsches Museum (Ed.): Annual Report 2015 . Munich 2016, p. 93 .
  5. ↑ Article indexing. Deutsches Museum Bibliothek, accessed on August 9, 2016 .
  6. ^ Deutsches Museum (Ed.): Annual Report 2015 . Munich 2016, p. 94-95 .
  7. ^ Deutsches Museum (Ed.): Annual Report 2015 . Munich 2016, p. 92 .