Rudolf Mumenthaler

Rudolf Mumenthaler (born September 2, 1962 in Burgdorf BE ) is a Swiss library scientist and has been director of the Central and University Library in Lucerne since 2017 .

Life

After studying history and subsequent doctorate at the University of Zurich , Mumenthaler first worked as head of the special collections at the ETH-Bibliothek in Zurich from 1997 , before taking over the management of marketing and innovation management there in 2009. In 2012, he was appointed professor for library science at the University of Applied Sciences in Chur . In August 2017 he took over the management of the Central and University Library in Lucerne .

Mumenthaler is, among other things, on the board of the Swiss Information Library and co-editor of the magazine Informationspraxis .

Rudolf Mumenthaler: “Nobody lives in poverty”: Swiss doctors in the tsarist empire . Rohr, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-85865-703-4 , p. 267 .
Rudolf Mumenthaler: In the paradise of the learned. Swiss scientist in the Tsarist Empire 1725–1917 . Rohr, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-85865-632-1 , p. 665 .
Rudolf Mumenthaler: Researchers on the move: photographs as a scientific souvenir . ETH Library, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-909386-08-6 , p. 140 (German, English, the catalog will be published for the exhibition at the ETH Library Zurich, May 19 to June 9, 2008).
Birgit Fingerle and Rudolf Mumenthaler: Innovation Management in Libraries . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-033885-0 , pp. VIII, 176 .

personal data
SURNAME	Mumenthaler, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss university professor for library science at the HTW Chur
DATE OF BIRTH	2nd September 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Burgdorf BE