Hans Schleimer

A work by Schleimer in the catalog he founded

Hans Schleimer (born March 6, 1878 in Nesselthal near Gottschee , Krain , † July 1, 1931 in Graz ) was an Austrian librarian and the founder of an indexing system.

Schleimer had a doctorate in maths and from 1908 until his death librarian at the University Library in Graz , where he was a specialist in cataloging. He created the subject catalog of the University Library Graz and began to create his own subject index for various sciences. He was able to complete mathematics in 1926. The publication of the entire system, planned for 1931, was prevented by his death. Keywords according to Schleimer's rules were assigned at the University Library in Graz until 1993. For the subject indexing of the holdings acquired between 1926 and 1993, the catalog based on his system is still in use today (2010).

Fonts (selection)

• Synthetic Studies. Dissertation, University of Graz 1907 (handwritten).
• On the question of cradle pressure inventory in Austria . In: Journal of the Austrian Library Association 16, 1913.
• The library's subject catalog. With rules for the university library in Graz and an appendix: systematic or alphabetical subject catalog? Leipzig 1923.
• The keyword cataloging of the mathematical literature . Leipzig 1926
• Rules for the keyword catalog (edited by Alois Hierzer). Graz 1979.

literature

• A. Hierzer:  Schleimer Hans. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 182.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Schleimer in the catalog of the German National Library