Cantonal and University Library of Friborg

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Cantonal and University Library of Friborg

The Cantonal and University Library (KUB) (French Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire (BCU) , also Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Friborg (BCUF) ) is subordinate to the Directorate for Education, Culture and Sport (EKSD) of the Canton of Friborg and is the Office for Culture affiliated. The KUB consists of a central library and the decentralized libraries of the university . All libraries are run according to the same library principles and guidelines.

Its mission is to contribute to the development of the canton's intellectual and cultural life , both for the university community and for the general public. It is part of the Library Network of Western Switzerland (RERO) and works closely with the other libraries in the canton.

Legal basis

According to the cantonal law on the cultural institutions of the state, the KUB has the task:

  • to acquire, record, maintain and make available to the public the information carriers required for basic and general education as well as for scientific research
  • to create Freiburg documentation that is accessible to the public and to keep an associated bibliography
  • to ensure the mandatory submission of printed matter and recordings and to preserve the collections
  • to contribute to the development of the general public library system in the canton

chronology

Branch in Beauregard

The public canton library was founded in 1848. The holdings came from the libraries of the Jesuit College of St. Michael and the various repealed orders and monasteries such as the Cistercians of Altenryf . They were housed in the former library of the St. Michael College, an 8 × 12 meter room. The first director, Abbé Meinrad Meyer, published the first volume of the printed catalog in 1852 .

Due to lack of space, there were several plans for a new library building in the following decades. The establishment of the University of Freiburg and the emergence of seminar libraries increased the lack of space. After a feasibility study and the land purchase by the canton, the building was built on the Winkler property next to the college and behind the Konvikt Albertinum in 1905. In the neo- baroque style , the Bernese architects Wilhelm Bracher and Friedrich Widmer planned an entrance with two side wings and a magazine building with six floors. The architect in charge was Léon Hertling .

In 1909 the library officially became the «Cantonal and University Library» (KUB) and on June 11, 1910 the new library building on Rue Joseph-Piller was inaugurated. Pope Pius X gave the KUB a facsimile of the Codex Barberianus by Giuliano da Sangallo .

In 1941 the university building complex Miséricorde was inaugurated, in which several seminar libraries were set up. The KUB building became too small due to the growth of the university. It was expanded with a contemporary ensemble from 1970 to 1975 according to plans by the Basel architect Otto Senn. The facade of the east wing was retained, the west wing became a catalog room with an attached media library and a new study room was built behind the warehouse. The magazines in the basement have been enlarged and lending has been automated with a conveyor belt. The extension was inaugurated on May 13, 1976.

In 1977, 20 seminar libraries became the Interfaculty Library for History and Theology (BHT). In 1984 the computerization of the services of the KUB began and the connection to the network of French-speaking and Ticino libraries (RERO). In 1989 the Freiburg media center was integrated into the KUB. The first volume of the current Freiburg Bibliography was published in 1990, and the KUB website went online in 1995.

In 2002, part of the holdings of the KUB headquarters moved to the new Beauregard branch. According to a concept approved by the Grand Council in 2001 , the headquarters at Rue St-Michel 4 and 6 should also be expanded with a new building for open access area and user workstations, and the existing premises converted.

Duration

The KUB hosts and provides approximately 4.7 million documents, including:

  • 2,701,000 publications
  • 200,000 old and rare prints
  • 4000 current magazines
  • 2350 manuscripts (including 185 before 1500)
  • 620 incunabula
  • 93 estates
  • 6120 geographical maps and plans
  • 1,775,000 photographs in around forty estates
  • 4642 posters
  • 7838 audiovisual documents
  • 20,713 electronic journals
  • 150 databases

literature

  • Office for Cultural Assets of the Canton of Friborg (ed.): Friborg Cantonal and University Library: History of a hundred-year-old building , Friborg 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aloys Lauper: From "Eiskeller" to "Moléson" , in: Canton and University Library Freiburg: History of a Hundred Year Building , p. 61.
  2. ↑ Aloys Lauper: From "Eiskeller" to "Moléson" , in: Canton and University Library Freiburg: History of a Hundred Year Building , p. 68 f.
  3. ^ Aloys Lauper: The palace of the "sleeping kings" , in: Canton and University Library Freiburg: History of a hundred-year-old building , p. 128.
  4. ↑ Aloys Lauper: The palace of the "sleeping kings" , in: Canton and University Library Freiburg: History of a hundred-year-old building , p. 138 f.
  5. ↑ Aloys Lauper, Carolina Kapsopoulos, Alain Robiolio: New interpretations in the spirit of the sixties , in: Canton and University Library Freiburg: History of a hundred-year-old building , p. 158 ff.
  6. ↑ Martin Good: Il faut cultiver notre jardin. The adaptation of a hundred-year-old functional building to new needs , in: Friborg Cantonal and University Library: History of a hundred-year-old building , p. 158 ff