Cantonal Library of Thurgau
The Thurgau Cantonal Library in Frauenfeld (Switzerland) provides information and media and has the task of collecting and cataloging Thurgau regional literature . Use of the cantonal library is open to all sections of the population. It is part of the basic cultural institution of the canton of Thurgau and serves to promote scientific work as well as general education, teaching and learning and also the entertainment of adults and young people.
history
From the foundation to the takeover of the monastery libraries
The Thurgauische Cantons Library was established on October 29, 1805 as the administrative library of the canton of Thurgau, which was founded in 1803. The inventory initially comprised law books as a reference library for council members and the highest court authorities. It was kept in the closet in the private apartment of the first cantonal librarian, Government Councilor Johannes Morell. In 1846 the company moved to the Redinghaus at Zürcherstrasse 180 in Frauenfeld, the seat of the cantonal government since 1807.
As a result of the abolition of the Thurgau monasteries in 1848, the holdings of the Fischingen and Ittingen monastery libraries came to Frauenfeld in 1852 , where they were stored in the attic of the cantonal school , today's library building. The works were integrated into the holdings of the cantonal library, which until now had mainly consisted of legal and political works. In 1858 the first printed catalog appeared with a volume of around 5000 volumes.
Purchase of the city library
The next handwritten catalog, written by the cantonal librarian Johann Adam Pupikofer in 1862 , already contained 10,000 works. In the same year the holdings of the Kreuzlingen monastery library were integrated. In 1864, the Frauenfeld City Library was purchased, which had emerged from a municipal reading society in the 1830s. The takeover changed the holdings and the public of the canton library, which from then on also assumed the function of a public library . The opening up to a wider audience was initially viewed critically by the library management, who saw their task primarily in the conservative educational mandate and the promotion of scientific life in the canton.
In 1868 the cantonal library moved into a room specially designed for it in the newly built government building at Zürcherstrasse 188 in Frauenfeld. This offered space for 50,000 volumes. The library also had a counter and reading room. In 1869 the library of the St. Katharinental Monastery was taken over.
Johannes Meyer, cantonal librarian since 1880, founded the Thurgoviana, a department that has been supplemented to this day and gathered all literature relating to Thurgau under one signature. It was also Meyer who wrote a new general catalog in 1885/86, which divided the inventory, which has now grown to around 30,000 volumes, into 34 thematic sections.
Relocation to the building on the promenade
In 1911 the people of Thurgau approved the construction of a new canton school . Two years later, the canton library and the Thurgau High Court moved into the vacant building on the promenade.
Canton librarian Friedrich Schaltegger , head of the library since 1912, put together a first catalog of incunabula, which the 800 incunabula recorded owned by the Canton library.
In the 1930s there was a significant differentiation of the tasks that had previously been handled by the cantonal librarian: In 1938, with the new archive building, a full-time archivist position was created and the first state archivist Bruno Meyer was appointed . The preservation of monuments , under the direction of Albert Knoepfli , was set up as an independent office.
Cantonal librarian Egon Isler, in office since 1933, revised the existing catalogs during his tenure. He created the first subject catalog comprising three folio volumes on the basis of the decimal classification . In 1954 he replaced it with a card index, which made it easier to integrate the newcomers.
In 1959 a cantonal commission for school libraries was set up under the presidency of the cantonal librarian.
End of the pure magazine library
Since the takeover of the city library in 1864, the Thurgau cantonal library has fulfilled a wide range of different functions: it was both an administrative and school library , the scientific library for the entire canton and, at the same time, Frauenfeld city library. The longer the traditional counter business with magazine orders, the less it was able to do justice to these tasks. Under Walter Schmid, the new Canton librarian from 1972, a shelf was initially 200 to 250 new acquisitions per year as a lending library designed. This marked the actual hour of birth of the open access library, which relieved users of the detour via catalogs and magazines and invited them to browse and leaf through freely. As a result, the canton library was divided into two departments in 1983: a study library purely as a magazine library and an open access library , which was primarily intended to serve as a public and youth library . The two departments were brought together again in terms of organization and personnel in 2005 on the occasion of the overall renovation of the building on the promenade.
management
| Period | Cantonal librarian |
|---|---|
| 1805-1835 | Johannes Morell |
| 1835-1857 | Andreas Stähele |
| 1858-1862 | Johannes Duke |
| 1862-1879 | Johann Adam Pupikofer |
| 1880-1912 | Johannes Meyer |
| 1912-1925 | Friedrich Schaltegger |
| 1925-1926 | Walter Gonzenbach |
| 1926-1933 | Julius Rickenmann |
| 1933-1972 | Egon Isler |
| 1972-1993 | Walter Schmid |
| 1993-2009 | Heinz Bothien |
| 2009–2012 | Monika Mosberger |
| since 2012 | Bernhard Bertelmann |
Duration
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The Thurgau Cantonal Library's holdings include around 300,000 media, including 500 current magazines and newspapers as well as non-books . The historical inventory includes around 400 manuscripts , 643 incunabula and over 600 postal incunabula , around 10,000 old prints from the 16th to 18th centuries, as well as various music and maps. The main collection area of the library, which as a cantonal library has the task of collecting all literature on Thurgau as well as writings by Thurgau authors, are the Thurgoviana .
Digital offers
As part of its digital offerings, the Thurgau Cantonal Library is a member of the Digital Library of Eastern Switzerland . The e-media (for example: e-books , e-papers , e-audios, e-music and e-videos) are supplemented by access to the Genios press portal, in which over 300 mainly German-language daily and weekly newspapers are accessed online and can be researched.
Catalog
The electronic catalog of the Cantonal Library of Thurgau also lists holdings from cantonal offices and has over 100,000 recordings of titles. All books and media holdings that have been in the cantonal library since 1960 are recorded in the OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) and can be queried electronically.
Networks
The Cantonal Library of Thurgau is a partner of the Thurgau Science Network for Science and Research .
literature
- Sebastian Keller: Securing Thurgau literature , in: Thurgauer Zeitung, April 5, 2014. Digitized
- Cobie Kuné: Spiritual texts from a late medieval manuscript. "Frauenfelder Passionsgedicht" - "Die five Herzeleid Mariä" - "Cordiale" - The founding history of the Carthusian Order and other texts from the Cantonal Library of Thurgau, Frauenfeld, Ms. Y 80: Edition and Commentary , Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-7776-2128 -9 .
- Andre Gutmann: The Swabian War Chronicle of Kaspar Frey and its position in the federal historiography of the 16th century , Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-17-020982-4 .
- Angelus Hux : On the building history of the building of the first canton school in Thurgau - today the canton library Thurgau , in: canton library - a house of knowledge, ed. v. Heinz Bothien, Frauenfeld 2007, pp. 9–31.
- Hanspeter Ruprecht et al .: Renovations in the Promenade area , Frauenfeld: Higher Court, Botanical Garden, Cantonal Library, Frauenfeld 2005.
- Emanuel Weissen: The history of the Thurgauische Kantonsbibliothek , in: Investigations and concept for the introduction of an arrangement system for the future open access department of the Thurgauische Kantonbibliothek: Diploma thesis 2002: NDS Information and Documentation, Chur 2002, pp. 7-19.
- Marianne Luginbühl and Heinz Bothien: Books also have their fate. The history of the Thurgau monastery libraries since the 19th century , Frauenfeld, 1999.
- Beat Gnädinger, Gregor Spuhler : Frauenfeld: The history of the city in the 19th and 20th centuries , Frauenfeld 1996, ISBN 3-7193-1115-5 .
- Walter Schmid: The Thurgau Cantonal Library, its history and its tasks in Thurgau services , in: Thurgauer Jahresmappe 1986, pp. 11-23.
- Rudolf Werner (ed.): The maintenance of music in St. Katharinental in the 18th and 19th centuries , Frauenfeld 1979.
- Egon Isler: A Brief History of the Thurgau Cantonal Library , separate print from: News of the Association of Swiss Librarians, 1970, No. 1.
- Johannes Meyer: Preliminary report (The development of the canton library) , in: Thurgauische Kantonsbibliothek (Frauenfeld). Catalog of the Thurgau Cantonal Library 1886, Frauenfeld 1887, pp. I-XXXVII.
Web links
- Cantonal Library of Thurgau
- Thurgau science
- Association Bibinfo Library Information Eastern Switzerland
Individual evidence
- ↑ Luginbühl / Bothien, Bücher, pp. 15–20; Meyer: Preliminary report, pp. XII-XIII.
- ↑ Luginbühl / Bothien, Bücher, p. 20.
- ↑ Meyer, Thurgauische Kantonsbibliothek.
- ^ Thurgau yearbook: Egon Isler. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
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