Research library

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A research library in the narrower sense is a library that, based on extensive holdings on a more or less large subject area, not only serves a single institution (e.g. a research institute or a university ), but research in this area in general. There are research libraries mainly in the historically working humanities, which are dependent on extensive old holdings and the corresponding secondary literature. The holdings are usually indexed in more detail than in other academic libraries . There are research programs at a research library (also for young scientists), Publication series and scientific projects such as editions and bibliographies . Research libraries also hold exhibitions and conferences on a regular basis.

Examples of research libraries are the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel or the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar, which cover the entire area of ​​cultural history of the early modern period and the classical period between 1750 and 1850. The library for educational history research in Berlin (historical educational research) or the Johannes a Lasco library in Emden (reformed Protestantism) should be mentioned as research libraries in a narrower subject area .

In a broader sense, all academic libraries as research libraries can call as they gather needed for the research literature, open and accessible.

In particular, the central specialist libraries play an important role in the field of applied sciences in Germany , while for the more historically working humanities, in addition to the actual research libraries already mentioned, the libraries of the collection of German prints are of particular importance.

Sometimes also corporate libraries , namely present in the research departments of major companies specialized libraries called Research Libraries.

literature

  • Michael Knoche: The Research Library: Outlines of a New Type of Library in Germany . In: Library: Research and Practice 17, 1993, 291-300. ISSN  0341-4183
  • Haike Meinhardt: Do we need the renaissance of the research library? A contribution to a library typological discussion. In: BuB Forum Bibliothek und Information 61, 2009, 816–820.
  • Georg Ruppelt : From the closed institution to the research library. The metamorphosis of the Herzog August Library in the 20th century. Paul Raabe on his 85th birthday on February 21, 2012. In: Bibliotheksdienst 46, 2012, p. 192.
  • Jürgen Weber: Research Libraries in Context . In: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 44, 1997, 127–146.
  • Matthias Wehry: The two bodies of the research library. In: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 60, 2013, 70–77.