Deichmanske bibliotek

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Deichmanske bibliotek
Deichman V.jpg
founding 1785
Library type library
place Oslo
Website www.deichman.no

The Deichmanske bibliotek is one of the oldest public libraries in Norway and the largest public library in the country. Today it is the Oslo City Library .

history

In 1780 the factory owner and chancellery Carl Deichman bequeathed his library with around 6,000 volumes and 2,000 riksdaler as capital to the population of Christiania, as Oslo was then called. This corresponded to the spirit of the Enlightenment at the time, which had set itself the goal of educating broad sections of the population. The library opened on January 12, 1785.

In addition to books, Carl Deichmann's estate also included manuscripts, diplomas, maps, a coin collection and antiques. One of the magnificent specimens in the library is the Bible of the Norwegian Archbishop Aslak Bolt (1430–1450).

There were many lending libraries in the city at that time. However, these required a membership fee and a loan fee for each loan. Even if the sums weren't high, the poorest couldn't afford to borrow them. Borrowing from the Deichmann library was free, however. Nonetheless, it was not used very often, as the books collected were mostly written in German, French, Latin and, to a lesser extent, in Danish. In addition, it was mainly specialized literature. Many books dealt with religious subjects. There were also specialist books from the fields of handicrafts and history or collections of laws. When the library first opened it had little in common with contemporary public libraries. The borrowers were more of the educated upper class.

Deichmann Library in Hammersborg.

The 19th century stagnated when private reading circles came into fashion. When the rector of the cathedral school in Oslo Jacob Rosted also became director of the library, the Deichmann library was merged with the library of the cathedral school in 1802. It was used as a school library until the middle of the 19th century. Only then did it have its own building. When Haakon Nyhuus took over the management and made some changes based on the American model, there was a new upswing. This is how the Deichmann library became the leading library in all of Scandinavia. In 1914 the “Grünerløkka filial” department moved into a new house on Schousplass in the Grünerløkka district, which had been specially built for the needs of a library. In 1933, the newly built main house in Hammersborg was opened in a neo-classical style. The post-war period, especially the 1960s and 1970s, was marked by the expansion of the branch network. Then the electronic library administration was set up.

A new library building is planned in Bjørvika next to the new opera and the new Munchmuseum. The architectural competition is over. Construction began in 2014 and is expected to be completed in December 2019. The opening of the new library is planned for the beginning of 2020.

Future Library

In the new building of the Deichmanske Library, a room is being designed by the Norwegian artist Katie Paterson. As an artistic project, it is to house the Future Library (in German: the future library), which collects texts that will only be published one hundred years after the new building of the library began. The first female writer to donate a text to the Future Library was the writer Margaret Atwood . The handover of the text, which will not be printed until 2114, took place on May 26, 2015.

Library IT

Based on the open source library system Koha , the Deichmanske Library operates and develops library software that is heavily geared towards the use of Linked Open Data in cataloging and bibliographic data storage .

literature

  • History of the Deichmanske bibliotek with pictures, accessed on November 21, 2010.
  • Nils Johan Ringdal: By, bok and borger: Deichmanske bibliotek gjennom 200 år. (1985)
  • Ernst Bjerke: Bibliotheca scholæ osloensis (2002). (Via the Library of the Cathedral School in Oslo)

Web links

Explanations

  1. ↑ At that time the “Chancellery” was just a title with no special function. He was under the Council of Justice and was in 6th grade at court.
  2. ^ Future Library website .
  3. ↑ Margaret Atwood donates manuscript for future novel . In: DRadio knowledge. May 26, 2015. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
  4. ↑ Katja Rother: Potentials of Linked Open Data in Public Libraries , Hannover 2016, p. 33 ff.
  5. ^ GitHub repository of the Deichmanske bibliotek Library System Extend

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