Cantonal Library of St. Gallen
| Cantonal Library of St. Gallen | |
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 Cantonal Library St. Gallen (2008)
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| founding | 1551 |
| Duration | 800,000 media |
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St. Gallen 
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| ISIL | CH-000009-3 |
| operator | Canton of St. Gallen |
| management | Sonia Abun-Nasr (Cantonal Librarian) |
| Website | http://www.kb.sg.ch/ |
The canton of St. Gallen Vadiana forms of st as a collection point. Gallic literature enhances the canton's cultural and social memory and also supplies the population with literature and media from all areas of knowledge.
It has two locations. Lending and returning are located in the main post library. At Notkerstrasse 22, in the Museumsquartier, manuscripts and old prints can be used in the Rara reading room by prior arrangement.
The Cantonal Library of St. Gallen promotes collaboration between the libraries by managing two library networks (St. Gallen Library Network and Library Network St. Gallen-Appenzell), is involved in library training and advises school and community libraries. She participates in cultural life through the organization of readings and exhibitions as well as through her own publication activities.
history
The Vadiana is an important historical Swiss library . It owes its name to the humanist Joachim von Watt (1484–1551), also known under the name Vadian, who acted as mayor of the city and was also a reformer who was known throughout Switzerland. In 1551 he bequeathed all of his private collections to the city. This was the beginning of the Vadiana City Library , which formed the urban-reformed counterpart to the famous monastic-Catholic monastery library and was further built up starting with the first librarian Jacob Studer . In the 19th and 20th centuries, the local community of St. Gallen promoted the Vadiana as a study and educational library until it reached its limits. In 1979 the canton took over the buildings in a referendum . This was the first cultural vote in the canton of St. Gallen. The Vadian Collection, on the other hand, remained the property of the local community as an important historical core inventory.
Main Post Library and Library Act
Together with the St. Gallen open access library, the Vadiana canton library opened a library in the St. Gallen main post office in 2015.
The library law of the canton of St. Gallen, which came into force at the beginning of 2014, regulates the tasks of the canton library and provides for the merger of the St. Gallen open access library with the canton library Vadiana.
Special departments
Particularly noteworthy is the Vadian Collection, which was defined in 1978 as the historical legacy of the local community of St. Gallen in the cantonal library. The focus is on the library and the handwritten estate of Vadian ( Joachim von Watt ). The collection was gradually expanded and today consists of around a hundred medieval manuscripts . The illuminated manuscripts from the late Middle Ages surpass their regional significance. For example, the magnificent manuscript of the world chronicle of Rudolf von Ems, humanistic manuscripts from the 15th century from Italy, alchemical manuscripts from the 15th and 16th centuries and the Robert Alther autograph collection with around 16,000 handwritten documents. The Vadian collection belongs to the local community and is a permanent deposit in the cantonal library.
One of the important collections of the cantonal library is the Freemason library Bibliotheca Masonica August Pelz , which is constantly being expanded and comprises a little more than 20,000 volumes.
Another important department is the “Center for the Book”. In 1947 it was founded by Ludwig Delp as the German Book Archive Munich (DBA) . The aim was and is to collect and catalog all books , magazines and audiovisual media related to the book and magazine industry. In autumn 2006, the DBA's holdings were given to the St. Gallen Cantonal Library on permanent loan and the catalog data was integrated into the St. Gallen library network. The holdings are looked after by the St. Gallen Center for Books (ZeBu) . This continues the work in the area of collecting and opening up literature and audiovisual media on book science topics. The fields of knowledge are diverse and include a wide variety of aspects.
One of the central tasks of the canton library is to collect as completely as possible the literature on the canton of St. Gallen and the publications of its residents and publishers in Sanctuary. In addition to monographs, the extensive Sangallensien collection includes newspapers, magazines, business reports, official pamphlets, so-called gray literature , etc. The collection order also takes into account sound and film recordings from St. Gallen artists.
Electronic offers
The Vadiana Cantonal Library is active in the communication of electronic information with the projects “eJournalsSG”, “eMedienSG” and the “Digital Library Ostschweiz”.
Digital library Eastern Switzerland
The Digital Library of Eastern Switzerland , initiated in 2008 by the Vadiana Cantonal Library, is a large range of electronic library media with around 100 partner libraries in the cantons of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Appenzell Innerrhoden, Glarus, Graubünden, St. Gallen, Schaffhausen, Thurgau and Zurich as well as in the Principality of Liechtenstein.
Alliances
St. Gallen library network
The library network of the St. Gallen Library Network (SGBN) consists of around 46 libraries and is managed by the St. Gallen Cantonal Library. Members of the association include the Abbey and Textile Libraries, the Sitterwerk Art Library, the St. Gallen City Library, medical libraries in cantonal hospitals and cantonal school libraries. The network database, which contains over a million media records, is also a partner network of the Informationsverbund Deutschschweiz (IDS).
Library Association St. Gallen-Appenzell
For the public libraries, the cantonal library set up the St. Gallen-Appenzell library network in 2008, in which a growing number of community libraries from the cantons of St. Gallen and Appenzell Ausserrhoden work together.
use
The Vadiana is a magazine library . In contrast to an open access library , the user cannot view the media directly, but has to order them via the online catalog. In addition to academic books, the St. Gallen Cantonal Library also houses fiction and is building up a growing inventory of audio books and DVDs.