University and State Library Fulda
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| founding | May 5, 1778 |
| Duration | 750,000 |
| Library type | University and State Library |
| place | Fulda |
| ISIL | DE-66 |
| operator | State of Hesse |
| management | Marianne Riethmüller |
| Website | www.hlb.hs-fulda.de |
The Fulda University and State Library is a library at two locations. On the one hand, it is located in downtown Fulda and, on the other hand, has been integrated into the Fulda University of Applied Sciences since 2001 .
history
On January 1, 2001, the Hessian State Library, which had been independent until then, was integrated into the Fulda University of Applied Sciences (then still a technical college). Together with the now former university library, the new university and state library was created at two locations.
The library created in this way fulfills its diverse tasks at two locations: At the Marquardstrasse location, the former university library, it offers its services primarily as support for teaching , study and research in the departments; at Heinrich-von-Bibra-Platz, it mainly fulfills its functions state librarianship. In October 2011, the library was also assigned the tasks of a city library - at least a model project that is unique in Hesse. On September 16, 2013, the new campus library was moved into and made available to the public for use.
Both parts of the library have their own history before the merger.
University library
The university library was created in 1971 when the then Fulda division of the Giessen University of Applied Sciences was founded . She took over the book collections of the later disbanded Pedagogical Institute Fulda, parts of the holdings of other pedagogical institutes and some extensive donations. From 1985 to 1999 the library received federal funds to build up a basic set of books.
The inventory now comprises more than 230,000 volumes, around 700 print journals are currently subscribed to. The acquisition decisions that primarily involved in the University of Fulda Subject areas represented social services , economic , applied computer science and mathematics , Oecotrophologie , food technology , electrical engineering , nursing and healthcare , social and cultural studies meet are determined by the curriculum with its (changing) priorities and orientations. In accordance with the mandate of the university, a predominant part of textbook-like and application-related specialist literature is in the inventory. The holdings are mainly available in a systematic open access list, systematized according to the Regensburg Association Classification (RVK), of which approx. 30,000 volumes are in the reference inventory . There are 316 user workstations around the books and magazines , and students have 11 individual work rooms and 11 spacious group work rooms. A reading café enables a break with a view of the new center of the campus.
State Library
The history of the former Hessian State Library in Fulda as the smallest scientific general library in Hesse goes back much further. In 1776, Prince-Bishop Heinrich von Bibra founded the public library with holdings that were largely collected after the Thirty Years' War in the convent library , the court library , parts of the Jesuit library that was closed in 1773 and the library of the papal seminary in Fulda.
The library opened its doors for the first time on May 5, 1778, and in 2018 it can now look back on 240 years of history. Private foundations , the rich collection of the parish church in Hammelburg and, after the secularization of 1802/03, other church libraries from the surrounding area with manuscripts and prints were added to the initial inventory.
Already at the time the library was founded, there were hardly any volumes left of the once famous Fulda monastery library. Most of them were lost during the Thirty Years War . The library received important gains from 1560 volumes from Weingarten Monastery on Lake Constance: In 1802, the inheritance holder of Holland, Wilhelm V of Nassau-Oranien-Dillenburg , was compensated for the loss of his Dutch rule with the Principality of Fulda as well as Weingarten and Corvey. Parts of the Weingartner library were transferred to Fulda, including 146 manuscripts from the 10th to 13th centuries. Together with the three Bonifatian codices and a copy of the Gutenberg Bible (Volume 1) printed on parchment, they form the highlights of the HLB's display collection.
Works and collections
The HLB Fulda currently has around 350,000 volumes in its holdings at Heinrich-von-Bibra-Platz, 77,000 of which are from the period before 1900. Among them are 431 incunabula (prints before 1500) and almost 10,000 volumes from the 16th and 17th Century. A further 130,000 volumes are mostly freely accessible in the new library building on campus. In the historical old stock there are 845 manuscripts , furthermore documents , over 7500 pieces of music, maps, engravings etc. Furthermore approx. 1,670 mostly German-language scientific and general education magazines and numerous daily newspapers are kept.
A stroke of luck for the library was the gift from the Schwank Foundation in 1886 with 7,300 z. Some rare and old prints, including many on the history of Fulda and 224 manuscripts. It also has the largest collection of works by the humanist Ulrich von Hutten (1488–1523) in Germany, if not worldwide. Together with a considerable number of early editions of the works of Luther and other reformers, these prints, manuscripts, and portraits represent a not-to-be-neglected fund of important historical sources.
Hutten Collection
The "Hutten Collection" of the Fulda University and State Library is probably the most extensive library collection in Germany of works by and about Ulrich von Hutten. The imperial knight Ulrich von Hutten , a well-known German humanist and publicist, was born at Steckelberg Castle near Schlüchtern (near Fulda) and educated at the Fulda monastery school until 1505. So it made sense for the former Hessian State Library in Fulda to create a special collection with works by and about Ulrich von Hutten. This collection is cataloged and arranged separately. The holdings of the collection cannot be borrowed, but can be ordered for use in the reading room. The basis of this "Hutten Collection" is a private collection acquired in 1959, which includes a large number of first prints from the 16th century. This so-called “Steinfeld Collection” comprised 88 prints by Hutten and the “Epistolae obscurorum virorum” (“ Obscurorum Virorum ”) from the 16th century, 30 portrait engravings from the 16th to 19th centuries and around 200 volumes of Hutten literature. In 1988 the Fulda Hutten collection formed the centerpiece of the much-visited and internationally successful exhibition in Schlüchtern in honor of the 500th anniversary of the humanist's birthday. The exhibition catalog for this anniversary exhibition shows the current state of Hutten research with over 30 articles. At the same time, the library director at the time, Artur Brall, compiled an inventory of the “Huttenica” of the Fulda State Library. It presents the holdings collected and available in the Fulda State Library up to the publication of the inventory directory (1988). In nine groups, lists of Hutten's works in editions from the 16th century to the present day, manuscripts as letters, documents and files, and last but not least, the portraits of Hutts and contemporaries as single sheets are shown. The collection has been expanded over the years: most recently in 2002 by 32 hat prints from the 16th century, acquired from a private aristocratic library. The acquisition (from: FZ of July 26, 2002) of these new hat prints means a great gain for Hutten research, for research into the history of humanism and the Reformation, and for research into the history of books in Germany. Today the library in Fulda has the third largest collection in the whole world in terms of originals from the field of prints from the 16th century. Only the University of Strasbourg, in whose possession the Hutten library of the lawyer and philologist Eduard Böcking (1802-1870), the editor of the still relevant scientific Hutten Complete Edition, passed, and the library of the British Museum own more Huttenica worldwide. In 2005 the Hut collection - excluding the Hutten manuscripts - comprised 641 titles. The HLB Fulda collection, which is designed to be complete, is continuously updated within the scope of financial possibilities. It focuses on Hutten's writings, the depictions of his life and work, and the testimonies and representations of his aftermath. The historical environment is only taken into account if there is a recognizable reference to Hutten.
Structure and tasks
The Specialized European Documentation Center, which was opened in 1995 and which, based on an agreement with the European Commission, holds official publications of the European Union, is integrated into the library on campus as a special department . In addition, three archives have come to the HLB in cooperation with the Department of Social and Cultural Studies: the Rhön Scientific Collection (WSR), the Peter Kühne Archive (PKA) and the archive of the Research Association for Flight and Migration eV (FFM) for support The library uses data processing for its tasks : Participation in the Hessian library information system ( HEBIS-PICA , currently acquisition, cataloging, online catalog, loan booking, interlibrary loan, cooperative subject indexing).
The state librarianship's tasks include supplying the residents of the East Hesse region , traditionally also in Central Hesse and, since the end of the inner-German border, also in West Thuringia, with literature. It has the right to deposit copies for the district of Fulda, ie all publishers must provide HLB with a copy of the works they have published free of charge. In addition, books and writings on the Fulda region are largely available in full. Works about Hessen in general are also collected. Basic works are available for all common areas of knowledge.
HLB Fulda is the depot library for the Fulda History Association and the Association for Natural History in East Hesse, ie the two associations have handed over their holdings for safekeeping and utilization. In this way, considerable special collections on regional and natural history have come together here in Fulda and can be viewed and borrowed from the HLB. Another task is her participation in the annually published Hessische Bibliographie , an ongoing directory of all titles published about Hessen. For this purpose, all books and journal articles related to Hessen that appear in the mandatory copy area of the HLB are recorded and reported to the central editorial office in Frankfurt am Main . The Hessian bibliography can be viewed at the University of Fulda . All bibliographical data in the Hessian bibliography are now available online .
literature
- Riethmüller, Marianne: "... it looks like a real university library!", In: ABI-Technik 4 (2013), pp. 180–195.
- Riethmüller, Marianne: From the "Public Library" to the University and State Library, in: History of the City of Fulda, Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the End of the Old Empire / ed. from the Fuldaer Geschichtsverein, Fulda 2009, pp. 703–711.
- The manuscripts of the Hessian State Library Fulda / ed. by Hartmut Broszinski ; Vol. 1.1992, Vol. 2.2000.
- Directory of documents from the Fulda State Library / compiled by Rudolf Werneburg, in: Fuldaer Geschichtsblätter 35 (1959), pp. 101-136.
- Pieper, Franz: The hat collection of the state library Fulda. in: Journal of Librarianship and Bibliography. 6 (1959), p. 396 ff.
- Steinfeld, Ludwig: The Hutten Collection of the Hessian State Library in Fulda; Thoughts of a collector. in: From the monastery library to the state library: Contributions to the 200th anniversary of the Hessian state library in Fulda / ed. by Artur Brall, Stuttgart 1978.
- Brall, Artur: The Hutten Collection of the Hessian State Library in Fulda; an inventory with an introduction and 32 portraits of Ulrich von Hutten. Fulda 1988.
- Hecht, Nadine: Development, digitization and presentation of the estate of the Fulda legal scholar and Freemason Adam Joseph Schwank. A project outline . In: Fuldaer Geschichtsblätter Vol. 93 (2017), pp. 249–260.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The University and State Library Fulda in the German Digital Library
- ^ Hessische Landesbibliothek Fulda in the Fabian-Handbuch of the University of Göttingen
Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 17 ″ N , 9 ° 40 ′ 48 ″ E