Swiss Library of Eastern Europe

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Swiss East European Library, Bern
Reading room of the Swiss East European Library Bernneu.jpg
The reading room for the Swiss Eastern European Library SOB is added in Bern

founding 1948
Duration Largest Swiss library on the past and present of Eastern Europe
Library type Special library
place Bern coordinates: 46 ° 57 '8 "  N , 7 ° 26' 6.2"  E ; CH1903:  599728  /  200126World icon
Visitor address Hallerstrasse 6, 3012 Bern
ISIL CH-000284-9
operator University Library of Bern
management Peter Sager
Website Homepage SOB

The Swiss East European Library is a publicly accessible branch library of the University Library of Bern . She specializes in the documentation of the history, society and politics of the European East in the 20th and 21st centuries. It also houses several special historical collections related to Eastern Europe.

history

The long-time head of the SOB, Peter Gosztonyi, in the library (1994)

The Swiss East European Library SOB emerged from the private collection of the Bernese economist and politician Peter Sager , which he had been building since 1948. In 1959, the Swiss East European Library was incorporated into a foundation, which private as well as various public bodies participated in the financing of the following years. Like the Swiss East Institute founded by Sager shortly before , the Eastern European Library was located at Jubiläumsstrasse 43 in Bern. Sager initially headed both institutions in parallel, before the historian Peter Gosztony took over the management of the library from 1963 .

After the dissolution of the Swiss East Institute in 1994, it became a branch of the City and University Library of Bern on January 1, 1997 by resolution of the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern under the new management of Christophe von Werdt . Since 2007 the SOB has been a branch library of the University Library of Bern in the field of theology and humanities.

Stocks

The holdings of the Swiss Eastern European Library include over 150,000 media, including extensive Eastern European magazine and newspaper holdings from the 20th century, which are listed in the swissbib Basel-Bern catalog. In addition, the SOB houses the “Rossica Europeana” collection, a historically valuable special collection on the western reception of Russia from the 16th to the 19th centuries, which includes not only printed matter but also a collection of historical maps. The holdings of the former Russian Library in Davos (Davos Library) are now also in the SOB. The holdings of the historical archive of the Eastern European Library, which covers the period from its foundation to its takeover by the City and University Library of Bern , is now in the library's own archive at Hallerstrasse 6 in Bern .

Archives holdings

Holdings: Historical Archive of the Swiss Eastern European Library (OEB). Swiss East European Library SOB. Signature: SOB ArOEB. link

literature

  • Peter Gosztony: The Swiss East European Library Foundation . In: Eastern Europe . tape 34 , no. 7 , 1984, pp. 538-540 .
  • Peter Gosztony: Swiss East European Library Foundation . In: Arbido . No. 3 , 1988, pp. 15-17 .
  • Peter Haber: The paper appeal . In: Basler Magazin . tape 42 , December 18, 2003, p. 3 .
  • Anne E. Hasselmann: The Swiss East European Library . In: Traverse . tape 23 , no. 2 , 2016, p. 125-135 .
  • Eva Maurer: Traces from East Central Europe: The Swiss Library of Eastern Europe as a place of exile and its exploration . In: Gillabert, Matthieu / Robert, Tiphaine (ed.): Seeking refuge. Phases of exile from Eastern Europe during the Cold War . Itinera 42.Schwabe, Basel 2017, ISBN 978-3-7965-3646-5 , pp. 169-185 .
  • Christophe von Werdt: The Swiss East European Library and East European Studies in Switzerland . In: StUBsnase . No. 2 , 1998, p. 7-11 .
  • Christophe von Werdt: The Swiss Eastern European Library: a special library on Europe's east . In: Arbido . tape 20 , no. 5 , 2005, p. 25-27 .
  • Christophe von Werdt: How an Eastern European Library came into being: an institutional historical access to the Swiss Eastern European Library . In: Communications / Working Group of Libraries and Documentation Centers for East, East Central and Southeast European Studies (ABDOS) . 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.unibe.ch . (PDF) - (accessed on August 26, 2020).
  2. ↑ Search Results - (All Fields :). Retrieved March 8, 2017 .