Cantonal library Schwyz
| Cantonal library Schwyz | |
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 Library with installation «Documents» (2015)
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| founding | 1854 |
| Duration | 21,000 books, 500 MCs and 2,000 CDs, CD-ROMs and DVDs |
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Schwyz 
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| operator | Canton of Schwyz |
| management | Markus Rickenbacher |
The Cantonal Library of Schwyz collects all publications about the Canton of Schwyz . It also serves as a depot for the exchange letters of the Historical Association of the Canton of Schwyz .
Historical
With the exception of the Einsiedeln Abbey Library, the Schwyz library system can not point to any venerable age. The idea of a public library first appeared in 1832. Augustin Schibig and Alois Fuchs , both liberal-minded clergy, founded a library company in Schwyz at that time . It served to maintain patriotic history and comprised around 4,000 works. Due to the unfavorable time, however, it was dissolved again in the early 1840s.
It was not until the second half of the 19th century that the idea of establishing a library was taken up again. The Chancellery Library , founded in 1854, was renamed the Cantonal Library in 1872 . For a hundred years it was mainly used for administration. An all too modest purchase budget made a targeted expansion of the holdings impossible, and the use was made more difficult by inexpedient premises.
Initially the library was housed in the town hall. In 1927 their premises were relocated to today's government building. Here, however, the conditions were not much more appropriate, and the same complaints that were already made in the town hall were repeated. It was not until 1970 that library-friendly rooms could be moved into in the basement of the new AHV building.
The library has been set up in the Ital Reding House's economic building since 1986 .
Inventory and use
As a special treasure, the canton library keeps the estate and private library of the poet Meinrad Inglin . In 2007 the book and art collection of the German-Jewish emigrants Henry (1915–2006) and Paul Proskauer (1921–2014) was added. The childless brothers lived in New York and were on friendly terms with the Canton of Schwyz.
The total inventory of the library comprises around 100,000 units. 28,000 books from various fields of knowledge and entertainment literature are available to children, young people and adults in the open access department. This inventory is enriched with 500 audio cassettes and 5,000 CDs, CD-ROMs and DVDs. In the small foreign language department, users will find media in English, French, Italian and Spanish. A further 3,000 works are freely accessible in the reading room , which is equipped with workstations. Around 100 magazines and newspapers that are available in the reading department complete the offer. The magazine inventory is not freely accessible, but can be easily queried with IT .
No fee is charged for the loan. While lending from the open access department is limited to eight media, there are no restrictions on the magazine inventory.
Web links
- Web presence of the Cantonal Library of Schwyz
- Handbook of the historical book collections in Switzerland
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gift: USA bequeath Canton Schwyz books collection , blick.ch, October 17, 2007, accessed on March 30, 2016.