Saarland University and State Library

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Saarland University and State Library
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Main building of the Saarland University and State Library (SULB)

founding 1950
Duration 1,700,000
place Saarbrücken
ISIL DE-291
management Dr. Désirée Griesemer
Website www.sulb.uni-saarland.de

The Saarland University and State Library (SULB) was established in 1950 in Saarbrücken (Saarland) and University Library of the University of Saarland founded. In 1994, their state librarianship , which had actually been carried out from the start, was also anchored in the name. With the medical branch library in Homburg / Saar, it is the central library of the Saarland University as well as the largest scientific general library in Saarland .

history

The establishment of the university library is directly linked to the establishment of the new university in 1948, initially in Homburg and later in Saarbrücken. The Saarland was semi-autonomous and economically politically at this time by economic and monetary union with France connected.

The first library director was Norbert Schuller from Alsace in 1950, who was already the nucleus of the library on the Saarbrücken campus as well as the beginnings of a specialist medical library in Homburg. Up until the incorporation of the Saarland in 1957, Norbert Schuller created the basis for a systematic increase in the number of employees and staff.

Until 1970, his successor, Hans Cordes, promoted the expansion of user-oriented services such as quick interlibrary loan and a general catalog of the rapidly growing institute libraries . As part of its system of supraregional literature supply, the German Research Foundation (DFG) transferred the special field of psychology to the library in 1966 , which had previously been located at the Erlangen-Nuremberg University Library . Since 1961, the Saarlandica collection (publications from Saarland and / or with content related to the region) has been intensified. The reference instrument is the Saarland bibliography , which is now offered as an online catalog in the Southwest German Library Association (SWB). An annual bibliography has been published since 1969, in which the publications by members of the Saarland University - from 1973 also by those of other universities in Saarland - have been recorded annually.

Under his successor Otwin Vinzent, who managed the library until 1990, the first cooperation agreements were made with the institute libraries in the two-tier library system that is still in operation today. Electronic cataloging began as early as 1978. From 1985 the library was able to offer an electronic user catalog, which today represents an integrated catalog of all campus holdings as well as the holdings of the Saarland University of Technology and Economics .

In 1991 Bernd Hagenau took over the management of the library until the end of 2018. In 1994, the state library functions of the library were also expressed in their name in the course of an amendment to the University Act; in 1996, its tasks as a state library were formulated in an ordinance. With the amendment of the Saarland Media Act of December 10, 2015 , the obligation to submit a deposit copy has also been anchored in both electronic and printed form

The Saar-Lor-Lux-Alsace literature archive, which was founded in 1978 as the "Laboratory for Gustav-Regulator Research" and was bound to a chair in the German Studies department until 1993, was incorporated into the SULB in 1996. In 2018 and 2019, the specialist libraries for English / American Studies, German Studies and Romance Studies moved into the building. With the upcoming relocation of the Library of Applied Linguistics in 2020, the Philological Library will complete its offering in the SULB.

At the beginning of 1998, a state treaty between Saarland and the state of Baden-Württemberg created the basis for the participation of Saarland libraries in the Southwest German Library Network . Shortly afterwards, the new library system LIBERO also replaced an in-house development (SABINE) that had been in existence since 1994.

Due to its special founding history, the library also allows users from Lorraine and the Palatinate , especially from the university towns of Metz and Nancy .

SULB building in Saarbrücken

At the end of 1951, the university announced an international competition for the overall development plan on the former site of the Below barracks on the outskirts of Saarbrücken, which should also include a university library. The Württemberg architect Richard Döcker , who became known as a representative of the “new building”, won the second prize in the competition; a first prize was not awarded. Together with the Saarland architect Wilhelm Steinhauer, Döcker was able to hand over the new university library as the first new building on the Saarbrücken university campus in 1954.

The magazine was housed in an eleven-storey book tower, to which the ground-level usage area and the two-storey administration wing were connected in an enclosing block. In 1984 an extension was added, which was used as a magazine reading room. This functional tripartite division was restructured with the renovation and expansion of the listed ensemble from 1998: the holdings are now largely housed in an underground, two-storey compact magazine, the book tower has been converted into an administration building, and the area of ​​use has been expanded to include the former administration area since 2009 completely modernized overall. Style-defining elements such as the large reading room or the exterior view with the curved canopy are retained.

Stocks

The approximately 1.7 million holdings of the Saarland University and State Library, including 3,642 printed journals that are kept regularly, are housed in the main building and in the medical branch library in Homburg. There are significant special collections in the Saar-Lor-Lux-Alsace literature archive . This is where the personal papers and bequests of Saarland authors ( Alfred Gulden , Norbert Jacques , Johannes Kirschweng , Gustav Regulator etc.) are maintained. The special collections also include the mining library of the former University of Applied Sciences for Mining , a donation of regional rarities from the Fritz Hellwig collection and a valuable collection of French book illustrations by Saarland teacher Rainer Maria Kelter. The main focus of the institution is a. the former DFG - special collection area psychology, through the move of the Philological Library the philological literature as well as the regional studies and regional history of the Saarland. The Saar-Lor-Lux-Alsace literature archive also makes it possible to view many archives from Saarland authors. The psychology full-text server PsyDok was handed over to the Leibniz Center for Psychological Information and Documentation (ZPID) in 2015.

Open Access

The SULB offers various open access servers, including the science server of the Saarland University SciDok (including the annual bibliography) and the archive server for Saarland SaarDok . The university publisher universaar, managed by SULB, has existed since 2010.

literature

  • Christine Hohnschopp, Bernd Hagenau (ed.): 50 years of the Saarland University Library . Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 2000, ISBN 978-3-86110-256-4
  • Bernd Hagenau: The three main functions of the Saarland University and State Library: synergy or balancing act? 2007, saardok.bsz-bw.de (PDF; 44 kB)
  • Patrick Ostermann: On the monument ensemble of the Saarland University in Saarbrücken . In: Jo Enzweiler (ed.): Saarland University 1945 to 1999 , essays and documentation; Saarbrücken campus, Homburg campus, Saarland university hospitals. Verlag St. Johann, Saarbrücken 1999, institut-aktuelle-kunst.de (PDF; 4.7 MB), 190 p., Numerous. Ill.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ § 14
  2. ↑ Klektiven, Reinhard: exhibition catalog “Very witty and fantastic”. 19th century French book illustrations from the Rainer Maria Kelter collection . 2015, urn : nbn: de: bsz: 291-saardok-bsz4835498789 .
  3. ↑ Psychology. In: www.sulb.uni-saarland.de. SULB, accessed February 12, 2020 .

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