Mikado (specialist library)

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Mission library and Catholic documentation center
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founding 1917
Library type Special library
place Aachen
ISIL DE-A99

Mikado ( Mi ssionsbibliothek and ka tholische Do kumentationsstelle) is the library and documentation of the International Catholic mission organization Missio eV and the Mission Scientific Institute Missio eV with the mission library of the Jesuit community Aachen . Mikado is a publicly accessible library and a member of the Working Group of Catholic Theological Libraries (AKTHB).

Duration

Mikado is a special theological library with a focus on contextual theologies and philosophies , missiology , religious studies , interreligious dialogue , human rights and the situation of local churches in Africa, Asia and Oceania. The inventory includes around 140,000 books and magazine volumes , around 15,000 documents of gray literature and over 700 current journals. The collection contains 5000 volumes from the 16th to 19th centuries. The oldest document dates back to 1540. The picture archive comprises around 140,000 color slides and around 220,000 black and white photos. Digital photos can be researched in the image and media database.

The archive contains, among other things, the founding document of the Franziskus-Xaverius-Verein (FXV) from December 7th, 1841 and the correspondence of the missio founder Heinrich Hahn from the years 1834–1877.

history

In April 1917 a library was founded at the headquarters of the Franziskus-Xaverius-Verein (from 1922 Pontifical Work for the Propagation of the Faith (PWG)) in Aachen. The General Secretary of the PWG, Peter Joseph Louis, justified this step as follows: “[The library] was necessary to orient both the gentlemen working at the headquarters and above all the clergy looking for information that there was a larger [sic! ] The library of missionary and colonial literature found [.] The use of this library by all interested parties, especially the parish clergy from the most diverse areas, justifies its existence. "

In order to ensure a qualified development of the library, the theologian Franz Baeumker was employed as "librarian and archivist" in 1920, who was already active as a librarian at the Archbishop's Seminary in Cologne from 1908 to 1920 .

The picture shows an example of a mission file described in the article.

In addition to the formal registration, Baeumker created an extensive index on index cards with which it was and is possible to search for books under content and geographical aspects. In addition, Baeumker created a "mission card index" with around 10,300 index cards on religious priests , religious brothers and sisters . In addition to biographical information, the index cards also contain information on the missionary activity and the dispatch area, and possibly also bibliographical information .

When the MWI was founded in 1971, a reference library was built there, which was merged with the missio library when it moved to new premises in 1982. The IT cataloging was realized with the acquisition of the first library software in 1985 for formal recording and content indexing for both the missio documentation and the missio / MWI library. Moving to the new building in Goethestrasse 43 on the grounds of the Old Clinic in 1988 made it possible to restructure the organization and to merge the library and documentation holdings. Since 2003 it has been possible to search the Mikado databases online for literature, for information on persons and corporations as well as in the journal inventory.

Special collection

Through a contract between missio and the North German Province of the Jesuits, most of the holdings of the dissolved Jesuit mission library in Bonn were taken over in 1998 on permanent loan. In this context, the library received its new name "Mikado" ( Mi ssionsbibliothek and ka tholische Do kumentationsstelle).

The Bonn mission library of the Jesuits (Domus Scriptorum SJ) was founded in Maria Laach in 1860 . In the period that followed, it served as a basis for all the editors of the church journal “Die Katholische Missionen” and their mission science activities. As part of the prohibition of the Jesuit order in the German Reich in 1873 ( Kulturkampf ), the library had to move to the Benelux countries. After the library had to be relocated during World War II, it moved to Lennéstrasse in Bonn until it was closed in 1998.

literature

  • Schückler, Georg: The mission library of the Pontifical Work on the Propagation of the Faith, (Central Aachen), in: Euntes Docete, No. 21, Rome 1968, pp. 361–365.
  • The General Secretariat of the Xaverius Association et al .: Handbook of the four papal mission associations, Aachen 1925.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schückler, Georg: Die Missionsbibliothek des Päpstlichen Werk der Glaubensverendung, (Central Aachen), in: Euntes Docete, No. 21, Rome 1968, p. 361–365, here: p. 361.
  2. ↑ Cf. The General Secretariat of the Xaverius Association et al .: Handbook of the four papal mission associations, Aachen 1925, p. 14.