AK Library Vienna for Social Sciences

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AK Library Vienna for Social Sciences
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Main building of AK Wien, the library is on the ground floor

founding 1921
Duration 497,000 as of 2012
Library type Specialized scientific library
place Vienna
ISIL AT nuclear power plant
operator Chamber for workers and employees for Vienna
management Ute Wödl
Website wien.arbeiterkammer.at

The AK Library Vienna for Social Sciences (until 2008 the social science study library of the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees for Vienna ) is an Austrian library . It is a publicly accessible scientific library that can be used free of charge , it is located on the ground floor of the main building of the Chamber for Workers and Employees (AK) in Vienna .

The AK Library Vienna is Austria's most important special library in the field of social sciences . It is the central library of the Austrian workers' and trade union movement . In addition to it, there are six other libraries of the AK regional chambers in Austria. The nearly 500,000 volumes and 900 periodicals extensive inventory focuses on the areas of politics , contemporary history , social policy , labor market policy , environmental policy , law , economics , education , labor movement, women's studies and women's movements , psychology , sexuality , sociology and philosophy . The library software BIBOS, which was developed at the Vienna Library of the Working Group in the early 1980s, was used throughout Austria until the 1990s .

For 2012, 341,000 euros were available for new acquisitions and the library had 17.5 full-time employees . Aleph is used as library software today ; media acquired before 1980 are not yet fully recorded in the OPAC . Together with the other AK libraries, e-books are also offered in a separate catalog . The library has been part of the Austrian Library Association since 2003, and it has only been possible to borrow outside the home since 2006.

The library was founded in 1921 and was open to the public from 1922 until the entire collection was hijacked by the National Socialists . The company was re-established as early as 1945, and its location was still the ÖGB store at Ebendorferstrasse 7 in Vienna's 1st district . Since 1960 it has been located at its present location at Prinz-Eugen-Straße 20–22 in Vienna's 4th district . After two years of renovation, the library reopened in 2008.

Location and building

The AK Library Vienna is located in the building of the Vienna Chamber of Labor at Prinz-Eugen-Straße 20–22. There it takes up a large part of the ground floor and a small part of the first floor. The library administration and the user area are located on the ground floor, the books are arranged in magazines that are only accessible to employees according to consecutive numbers and extend from the ground floor to the fourth basement. The user area is divided into the entrance hall, in which the borrowing, current magazines and newspapers as well as computer workstations are housed, as well as into a reading room with an open access area of several thousand volumes. The library building was completed in 1959 and was one of the most modern in Vienna at the time. From 2006 to 2008 it was rebuilt and renovated.

Duration

Holdings and acquisition budgets
year Volumes Periodicals Purchase budget
1923 k. A. k. A. 108 million crowns
1924 80,000 340 217 million crowns
1925 92,000 414 42,292 shillings
1926 95.215 438 49,572 shillings
1927 100,000 k. A. 60,704 shillings
1928 110,000 k. A. 73,213 schillings
1929 112,000 700 59,790 shillings
1930 116,000 k. A. 60,360 shillings
1931 129,564 650 52,485 shillings
1932 135,460 573 41,278 shillings
1933 140,000 k. A. 23,658 shillings
1935 144,000 k. A. approx. 21,000 schillings
1936 140,000 k. A. approx. 21,000 schillings
1946 5000 100 k. A.
1948 6444 270 46,700 shillings
1950 9544 523 k. A.
1955 40,894 732 k. A.
1960 70.149 786 k. A.
1965 104,938 849 k. A.
1970 132.841 918 k. A.
1975 157.973 923 k. A.
1980 188.022 1104 k. A.
1985 223.272 1220 k. A.
1990 283,626 1270 k. A.
1995 349,388 1184 k. A.
2010 485,000 k. A. 330,000 euros
2012 497,000 k. A. 341,000 euros

Pamphlets

In 2012, the inventory comprised around 497,000 books, newspapers and magazines, ongoing compilations and 605 digital objects. 778 of the newspapers and magazines were kept in printed form and 109 as electronic magazines . The new addition in 2012 amounted to almost 6,000 physical units. The library manager selected the new acquisitions until the 1980s, and subject specialists have been responsible ever since.

Collection focuses on politics, contemporary history, social policy, labor market policy, social insurance, law (especially labor and social law ), economics, economic policy , education , labor movement, women's movement, environmental protection , local politics , sociology, sexology , psychology and philosophy.

E-books

In 2014 there were 16,800 e-books and 150 electronic journals. Since 2011, e-books have been available through the “AK Bibliothek digital” project, which can be borrowed free of charge and through a separate OPAC. The seven AK Libraries in Austria commissioned the online bookseller ciando as an aggregator and in 2011 already offered around 8,000 e-books. In the first six months there were 30,000 loans. Due to the different orientations of the participating libraries, there are different focal points, around half of the e-books were on fiction , 15% each on social sciences and humanities .

Special collection

A collection of pamphlets, posters and pictures relating to the Vienna October Uprising in 1848 is held as a special collection . In 1952 the library bought a collection of around 1000 items from the SDAP politician Max Wagner and subsequently expanded it to become one of the most extensive of its kind.

Significant objects

From the old stock 600 titles of socialism in the 19th and early 20th centuries are worth mentioning. This includes, for example, first editions of the European early socialists , Ferdinand Lassalle and Karl Marx . The old stock also includes books on the early labor movement, the revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as literature on social policy and economics. About twenty of the magazines and newspapers held go back to the 19th century.

Lost inventory

Four private libraries of well-known Austrian socialists incorporated in the 1920s together made up over 50,000 volumes. They formed the core of the book inventory, but were largely lost after the National Socialists had carried them away from 1938 to 1939. Around 5000 volumes by Pernerstorfer, 2000 by Adlers, 500 by Mengers and 600 by Winarskys were later returned.

Engelbert Pernerstorfer's library had a literary department with works of fiction, literature and linguistics and a social science department with philosophical, historical, Zionist , socio-political and socialist writings. Leopold Winarsky mainly collected books on the Revolution of 1848 and the French Revolution . Anton Menger's library included writings by the early socialists, various economic and social politicians and economists , as well as collections of rare socialist periodicals. Viktor Adler's library mainly contributed modern socialist and socio-political literature.

Business administration, organization and legal matters

Income, expenses and employees

Library manager Years
Fritz Bruegel 1921-1934
Anton Birti 1934-1938
Johann Sturm 1946-1956
Bernhard Glesinger 1956-1961
Gottfried Hatzl 1961-1977
Maria Biebl 1977-1979
Josef Vass 1979-1998
Herwig Jobst 2000-2012
Ute Weiner 2012 - today

The library spent 341,000 euros on new acquisitions in 2012. Statistics Austria does not have any figures on total expenditures, staff costs or income . The number of employees was 20 in 2009 and 2010, plus four more in the documentation attached to the library. In 2012 there were 17.5 employees in full-time equivalents .

During the First Republic , the library was one of the largest departments of the Vienna Chamber of Labor, around 11% of the employees in the Chamber Office were librarians. By June 1921, four people had been hired; in the following years the workforce grew to nine. From 1934, the Austrofascists halved the staff and placed two confidants of the new chamber management from the statistics department in the library.

In 1945, due to emigration, death and political stress, only two of the former employees could be reinstated. In early 1946, the library management was entrusted to the 23-year-old medical student Johann Sturm. By the end of the 1940s, the number of employees increased to a total of six people. By the time it reopened, there were ten and by the mid-1950s there were already 13 employees. This level was kept constant for almost 20 years, with two to three of the employees being assigned to the higher and higher service. From 1975 the number of employees increased until 1988 until 20 people were employed.

Organization and legal

The AK Wien is responsible for the library. In total there are seven libraries of the nine AK provincial chambers in Austria, but not all of them are academic libraries. Within the Vienna AK, the library and five other departments belong to the education sector.

From 1945 to 1971 magazine and newspaper articles for the activities of the Chamber of Labor were documented by the library. An extensive archive on the labor movement planned since 1957 was only rudimentarily implemented as a "social archive" and existed within the library until 1981. Even today, the library has a department for documentation, the “Sowidok”. She researches for the management of the AK and archives media reports.

The current rules of use have been in force since 2008. The AK Library has no legal deposit rights .

use

Until 2003 the principle of a reference library was maintained (with the exception of interlibrary loan ), from 2003 onwards it was possible to borrow over the weekend, and since 2006 media can generally be borrowed. The target group of the scientific special library are primarily students, lecturers, AK employees and researchers. Popular education tasks are in the background: employees also come to the library, but the students form the largest user group. In 2010 there were a total of around 11,600 readers, in 2011 around 12,100 loans and 1,600 interlibrary loans were made.

Catalogs, regulations and IT

The AK Library has been using the Aleph software as an integrated library system since joining the Austrian Library Network in 2003. The publications are searchable by the public via an OPAC, where registered readers can also order media they have found. The offered e-books, for which a separate e-book catalog is available, cannot be found in the OPAC. New titles are included in accordance with the standard sets of rules in the library network, i.e. currently in accordance with the RAK and RSWK . The AK Library is currently working on the implementation of Vufind as an open source alternative to the Primo library software, which is popular in Austria today .

Historical

Before the Second World War there was an author and title catalog, as well as a systematic subject catalog. In addition, there were special catalogs for the items on loan from the SDAP and the University of Vienna , some of which came from the lenders themselves. From 1925 to 1931, separate growth lists were created to inform users. Since 1927, the library also published a so-called "magazine show" to draw attention to relevant magazine articles. From 1929 to 1933 they worked together with the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main .

A catalog room was accessible in the new building since 1960, which housed a nominal catalog according to the Prussian instructions and a keyword catalog (with 3600 keywords in 1961) according to internal house rules. In preparation for the approaching IT use, these catalogs were broken off in 1980 and from then on they were cataloged according to the RAK or according to a revised list of keywords, with a number of the Dewey decimal classification now also added to the keywords . The catalog cards were now produced according to the international format (12.5 × 7.5 cm), from 1982 no longer manually, but by machine. Due to the lack of IT equipment for users and because there were still too few digital recordings, the cards were produced until 1989.

After the introduction of BIBOS in 1982, readers only had access to a computer terminal via the information service; in 1990 two terminals were added especially for users. After two more stops in 1993, the new catalog (from 1980 to 1989) could be removed, the old one remained in the catalog room, as the title recordings from before 1980 had hardly been recorded. The BIBOS union catalog went online for the first time in 1996 in a trial run on the WWW . He showed 216,000 data records and thus 60% of the total inventory. From 2012 the OBVSG worked on the catalog cards from the old catalog and incorporated them into the current system. The aim of the project was to provide evidence of the entire holdings of the AK Library Vienna in the Austrian union catalog. The project was successfully completed in January 2016. A total of over 150,000 catalog cards (including over 55,000 references) were incorporated into the electronic catalog without an autopsy. Through the use of external data, the share of new admissions was only 15%.

history

Prehistory and foundation

In 1920 the Austrian Constituent National Assembly passed a law establishing chambers of labor. In order to be able to fulfill their tasks and to support the educational activities of the unions, the new labor chambers of the individual federal states soon started operating scientific libraries - so-called "study libraries" - which were supposed to provide both specialist literature for the labor chambers themselves and more general literature for the public . Where the labor movement was poorly represented and therefore no corresponding libraries were available (e.g. in Tyrol , Vorarlberg and Carinthia ), the chambers of labor also set up popular labor libraries , some of which also moved through the communities and companies as traveling libraries with the help of book cases .

Ebendorferstrasse 7

Together with the Vienna Chamber of Labor , an internal official library was set up at Ebendorferstrasse 7 in spring 1921. It was opened to the public on September 18, 1922 as the “Social Science Study Library at the Chamber for Workers and Employees for Vienna”. After informal talks in which SDAP party members Friedrich Adler and Otto Bauer and the Vienna Chamber of Labor Director Ferdinand Hanusch were involved, an agreement was reached in 1922 to set up Engelbert Pernerstorfer's and Leopold Winarsky's valuable private libraries in the new Chamber of Labor library. These were in the possession of the SDAP party executive and were now loaned to the Chamber of Labor.

The library was subordinated to a six-member board of trustees under the direction of Friedrich Adler and was given the task of supplementing the mass education network of Viennese workers' and people's libraries by providing specialized literature in the field of social sciences and the labor movement. According to Adler, it should enable the Chamber of Labor to do the basic scientific work, be available to the teaching faculty of the Chamber of Labor and serve as an archive for the history of the labor movement. The core of the library holdings were the Pernerstorfer collection, which comprised around 20,000 volumes and was placed in the so-called “Pernerstorfer room”, as well as the somewhat smaller Leopold Winarsky library, which was incorporated into the store holdings. There were also subscribed magazines as well as newly purchased classics in the social sciences and new publications in the areas of trade union movement, social and economic policy. Initially, the target group was limited to researchers, officials and speakers, but soon attempts were made to address students and those taking part in workers' education.

1920s to 1933

About 12,000 volumes were from the library eagle Viktor taken

As early as the early 1920s, the incorporation of two additional collections made the library an internationally respected institution. In 1923 the University of Vienna took over the 16,000 volume library of the socialist legal scholar Anton Menger, and in 1924 a 12,000 volume part of Viktor Adler's book collection. The planned purchase of the important library of the anarchist John Henry Mackay did not materialize . Donations to the library by Karl Kautsky , Franz Domes and the Carnegie Foundation were less significant, but nevertheless considerable . In addition to the book inventory, an “archive on the history of socialism and the labor movement” had existed since the 1920s, which contained documents from Adler's estate and the donation by Domes.

Menger had taken his own book-shopping trips to Paris, London and Berlin especially to build up his extensive collection of socialist and communist literature. When he died in 1906, the books bequeathed to the university were placed in its Political Science Institute, where, contrary to Menger's request, they were not made available to the public. The head of the Political Science Institute Carl Grünberg , the State Secretary Otto Glöckel and Otto Bauer planned to merge Mengers and several other sociological legacy libraries in the library of an "Institute for Social Research" to be founded. After this project failed, a contract was signed between the university and the Chamber of Labor, which stipulated that Menger's library would go on loan to the AK, which had to bear the costs of the relocation and would separate the collection from the rest of the inventory and make it publicly accessible had to. Up to 1925, considerable amounts were recorded in the library budget for the takeover, installation and cataloging of the Menger library.

The social science part of Viktor Adler's library was acquired by the SDAP party executive for 20,000 Swiss francs from his son and heir Friedrich Adler. He had incurred debts of the same amount with the Swiss Metalworkers ' Association. The SDAP paid the debts to the metalworkers' union and allowed the library it had bought to stay in Adler's apartment. In 1924, however, Adler handed the books over to the Chamber of Labor, the SDAP agreed and only kept copies with a personal dedication in its possession.

In the 1920s, the Vienna AK Library was one of the best endowed libraries in Austria, which enabled the inventory to grow from 80,000 volumes in 1924 to 140,000 in 1933. In the course of the global economic crisis , the Vienna Chamber of Labor suffered losses as a result of the increasing number of unemployed, which is why the library's purchase budget was cut, among other things. Of the 700 magazine and newspaper subscriptions in 1929, only 573 remained in 1932.

The old building and the organization

The acquired private libraries were located in their own rooms, the main part of the book inventory in the magazines, where it was divided into four formats and continuously displayed. The periodicals and brochures with their own signature group were kept separately from him. The loans from SDAP and the University of Vienna also had their own signature. The library was open to the public, but it was a reference library for whose use - at least according to the official statutes - passes were required. Lending was maintained with the academic libraries in Austria, but was also possible internationally via the book reference office of the Austrian National Library and the Central Reference Office of German Libraries. It was open Monday to Saturday from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m., on Sundays and public holidays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. In the first year around 1400 users came, in 1923 there were already 5100, whereupon the reading room with its 15 seats proved to be too small. That is why the courtyard of the chamber building was roofed over in 1929 and a new reading room was built there, which offered 45 seats and two floors of storage space for bookshelves. In place of the former animal stalls of the Ministry of Agriculture and some basement rooms, new magazines were created. The main user groups were scientists, students, works councils , participants in various educational courses and employees of the Chamber of Labor. The number of visitors in the 1920s was around 6,000 per year, with the new reading room it rose by leaps and bounds to around 26,000 in 1930. In the same year 39,000 volumes were loaned to the reading room, but in 1932 the numbers rose rapidly to around 16,000 readers and 26,000 used volumes back.

The two most important exhibitions before the war showed documents on the occasion of Lenin's death in 1924 on his arrest in Galicia and his departure to Switzerland, and in 1926 the history of socialism in first and original editions. During the exhibition of the documents on Lenin's life, the showcase was broken into and the originals stolen. Friedrich Adler and Fritz Brügel assumed at the time that the stolen goods were brought to the Moscow Marx-Engels Institute .

Austrofascism

From the takeover of power by the Austrofascists until the Anschluss in 1938, the Vienna AK Library suffered financial and, above all, personnel losses, but it remained largely in existence and open to the public. This was not to be taken for granted, as a number of labor movement libraries were confiscated after the February fighting . After the democratically elected organs of the Chamber of Labor had been replaced by law by administrative commissions loyal to the government, the Chamber of Labor libraries throughout Austria were checked and, at least in part, blocked. Clean-ups, during which unwanted literature was removed, mainly affected the popular workers' and public libraries, and less so the so-called study libraries with their scientific holdings. In the latter, unsavory literature was simply made inaccessible. The Vienna AK library was largely spared from the purges, but changed its acquisition policy in the direction of literature required by the regime. The leader Fritz Brügel , who was possibly also involved in the February fighting , was forced to emigrate to Czechoslovakia , from where he sent a letter to a PEN congress in which he sharply criticized the cultural policy of the Austrian government.

Until 1937 the library could be used almost without restriction, only from then on did you need a permission from the general secretary and the president of the trade union federation to be submitted via the library manager to order socialist, communist and national socialist books. This should prevent people with a socialist mindset from using the library. Despite this, opponents of the regime are said to have continued to visit the reading room and the librarians did not apply the regulations rigorously. The loans from the SDAP became the property of the federal government, but remained in the library.

The acquisition profile was adapted to the regime. Catholic authors, theorists of the professional order and literature from the environment of Austrofascism came to the library. The Zeitschriftenanzeiger also reported on Catholic articles and articles loyal to the regime during this time.

National Socialism

On March 11, 1938, the SA and SS occupied the building on Ebendorferstrasse, and on March 12, the AK employees were briefed in the reading room about the new conditions, including the hoisting of the swastika flag. The separately set up scholarly libraries were packed in boxes after the closure in mid-March, and on April 25th they were transported to Berlin. Shortly thereafter, the Amsterdam International Institute for Social History failed in an attempt to save the holdings by purchasing them.

Berlin representatives of the DAF, including the library manager Hans Richter, came to Vienna to plan the takeover of the remaining holdings. After unsuccessful resistance from the Austrian National Socialists, the removal began in January 1939. There is only fragmentary information about the further fate of the holdings. The main part probably ended up in the magazine of the central library of the AWI in the south of Berlin. After relocating to Immelmannstrasse 10, their books were partially distributed to other locations during the war. After the end of the war, the items that remained there were found in Immelmannstrasse, including books from the AK Library Vienna that could be identified by ownership notes. The whereabouts of these books after 1945 is unclear; parts of them may have been brought to the USA or the Soviet Union .

After the war, only a quarter (around 35,000 volumes) of the stolen holdings was returned. Until the 1950s, the AK Library received small consignments of books brought to Poland and Czechoslovakia . The majority (around 20,000 volumes) came from a US collection warehouse for cultural goods to be returned, the Offenbach Archival Depot . In the 1990s, small shipments of stolen books from the university library of the Free University of Berlin and the Berlin State Library finally followed .

Rebuilding

The Vienna Chamber of Labor began to rebuild its library as early as August 25, 1945, and a basic set of legal literature was essential for everyday office life. The ultimate loss of the stolen holdings was not yet known and a start was made to collect works from private property, from libraries and bookstores. All that remained of the old library were empty shelves and a ladder. Benedikt Kautsky and Bruno Pittermann , among others, helped to build up the portfolio . In 1946, the 1150 volume legacy library of the lawyer Leo Sales was taken over . At the end of 1946 there were already around 5000 volumes and 100 current journals.

The library opened on March 6, 1950 and was now open to the public again. However, since the function of the library for the work of the Chamber of Labor continued to be in the foreground, it was decided not to lend the books out. In relation to several other Vienna Chamber of Labor libraries, for example in training centers, it assumed a leading role. A planned, Austria-wide cooperation of the AK libraries in the form of a joint display system, book purchase and central catalog failed at the end of the 1940s. In 1958 the Vienna AK Library was integrated into the Austrian library system. She now took part in interlibrary loan, worked on the Central Catalog of Foreign Magazines (ZAZ) and joined associations and specialist committees.

In the 1950s, between 200,000 and 500,000 schillings were available for new acquisitions each year. In addition to new publications, older standard works were also reacquired in the antiquarian bookstore. As before the war, the focus of collecting was on economics, politics, the labor movement, law, sociology and contemporary history. Worth mentioning are the purchases of Karl Renner's library, comprising 3,000 volumes, in 1951, today's most extensive collection on the Vienna October Uprising in 1848, and the books and archives of the Steyrermühl publishing house . In 1960 the library again had around 70,000 volumes. In addition to an author and title catalog based on the Prussian instructions , a keyword catalog and a systematic catalog based on the Dewey decimal classification were soon introduced. The magazine was placed according to a consecutive number. The reading room had 45 places to accommodate working people and was open until 8 p.m. and on Saturday mornings. Loans were also awarded to institutions such as unions, and ordinary visitors had to read in the reading room. The books were dug out to order from the library staff. The number of visitors rose from 1,100 in 1950 to 7,500 in 1957, and the number of books used in the same period from 2,100 to 9,500. While the proportion of employees was unusually high at over 50% at the beginning, it fell to just over 30 in the following years %. Since then, the primary group of visitors to the library has been students and scientists.

relocation

In October 1959, the library began to move into the newly built main building of the Vienna Chamber of Labor on Prinz-Eugen-Straße. The lack of space in Ebendorferstrasse had already made it necessary to move some of the holdings and so the construction of new, generously dimensioned library space was more than convenient. From October to December 1959, employees packed the book stocks in 2,300 boxes, which from January 1960 were temporarily stored in the new reading room, sorted by number. From March onwards, the stocks were taken to the magazines by elevator, where they were first roughly and then more finely arranged on the shelves. On June 8, 1960, the reading room was finally opened to the public. The library building was one of the most modern in Vienna and - as usual until the 1970s - was divided into three parts. It had an administration wing on the 1st floor of the building, a storage area from the ground floor to the 4th basement and a reading area on the ground floor. At that time, the spacious magazines had a usable area of ​​1630 m² and were equipped with air conditioning and smoke alarm systems. Metal shelves offered around ten kilometers of storage space. The reading room housed 30 working tables and a hands-free installation of several thousand volumes, the catalog room was over time with information switches the Buchentlehnung, a wardrobe, copiers, microform reader devices , terminals equipped seating and computer workstations. Together with the administration wing, the reading area had around 800 m² of usable space. In 1987 a new depot was built with the establishment of the AK training center in the nearby Plößlgasse.

Noteworthy book donations came from the Styrian Chamber of Labor, Arbetarrölens Arkiv Stockholm and a number of socialist politicians and trade unionists, such as Federal President Adolf Schärf and Franz Jonas . Larger stocks came in 1963 from the property of the metalworkers' union and the social democratic journalists Jacques Hannak (1979) and Otto Koenig (1983). The academic private libraries Norbert Lesers , Ernst Bornemanns , Robert Planks and Joseph T. Simons followed in the 1980s . With the emergence of new social movements during the 1980s, the topics of feminism and ecology also came to the fore in the library as new collection areas .

Til today

The AK Bibliothek Wien developed its own integrated library system called the library organization system at an early stage together with an IT company . BIBOS went into operation in 1982 and made computer-aided cataloging and purchasing possible , which enabled an increase in the number of book edits performed by librarians each year. Borrowing was changed to EDP in 1986. As early as 1996, the BIBOS union catalog could also be searched on the WWW and was also available on CD-ROM . Since the inventory was electronically searchable, the need of users for the annually published incremental indexes decreased. They were discontinued in 1995.

It was not until the 1990s that the number of visitors reached roughly the previous highs of the 1960s: around 11,000 readers came every year, and over 40 people a day. The main group of readers remained the students, whose share increased at the expense of the employees. In the 1960s and 1970s, 56% were students, 31% employees and 10% retirees; in the 1980s and 1990s there were 66% students, 24% employees and 9% retirees. The proportion of women rose from 27% in 1987 to 43% in 1996. The volumes used amounted to around 19,000 in the 1960s and 28,000 in the 1990s. The number of volumes per reader rose from 1.8 to 3.0. Loans to AK employees rose from 4,400 annually in the 1960s to 8,700 in the 1980s and 1990s. The circulation of journals within the AK is not included in the number of loans. As part of this, in 1996 the library issued around 90,000 current journals to employees or departments of the AK.

In 2003 the OBVSG was joined and BIBOS was replaced by Aleph. From 2006 onwards, a renovation took place which forced the library to move to an alternate quarter along with most of its holdings. This was located in the nearby technical and commercial evening school, Plößlgasse 13 and did not have a reading room. The renovation and expansion of the company's own premises was completed in 2008.

literature

  • The social science study library . In: Walter Jaksch, Edith Fischer, Franz Kroller: Österreichischer Bibliotheksbau , Volume 2, Vienna a. a. 1986, pp. 132f.
  • Karl Stubenvoll: 75 years of the social science study library of the Chamber for Workers and Employees for Vienna. 1921-1996 . Chamber for Workers and Employees, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7063-0114-8 (series of publications of the social science study library) .
  • Karl Stubenvoll: Social science study library of the Chamber for Workers and Employees for Vienna . In: Austrian National Library (Ed.): Handbook of the historical book collections in Austria , Volume 2, Part 2, Hildesheim u. a. 1995, pp. 109-113.
  • Josef Vass, Heinz Renner, Karl-Heinz Hasibar: Social Science Study Library 1922 to 1982 , Vienna 1982.

Activity reports and yearbooks

  • Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees for Vienna (Ed.): Activity report of the Chamber of Labor in Vienna , Vienna 1945
  • Chamber for Workers and Employees for Vienna (Ed.): Yearbook of the Chamber of Labor for Vienna , publishing house of the Chamber for Workers and Employees for Vienna, Vienna 1946 and thereafter annually until 1984
  • Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees for Vienna (ed.): AK-Jahrbuch , Vienna 1986 and thereafter annually until 1990
  • Chamber for workers and salaried employees for Vienna (ed.): Activity report. Closing of accounts , publishing house of the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees, Vienna 1991 and thereafter annually until 2003
  • Chamber for Labor and Employees for Vienna (Ed.): Social science library of the Vienna Chamber of Labor . Yearbook , Vienna 2002 as well as 2003 and 2005
  • Social Science Study Library (Ed.): Activity report , Vienna 1993 and thereafter annually until 1997
  • AK Library Vienna for Social Sciences (Ed.): Yearbook , AK Library Vienna for Social Sciences, Vienna 2009 and 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statistics Austria (ed.): Kulturstatistik 2012 , Statistics Austria, Vienna 2014, p. 82f ( online ).
  2. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ↑ For the entire building see z. B. Chamber for workers and employees for Vienna in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  4. ↑ The Social Science Study Library . In: Walter Jaksch, Edith Fischer, Franz Kroller: Österreichischer Bibliotheksbau , Volume 2, Vienna a. a. 1986, pp. 132-133.
  5. ^ Karl Stubenvoll: 75 Years of the Social Science Study Library of the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees for Vienna , 1997, pp. 39, 52, 66, 74, 85; Statistics Austria (Ed.): Kulturstatistik 2012 , Statistics Austria, Vienna 2014, pp. 82, 85; Statistics Austria (ed.): Kulturstatistik 2010 , Statistics Austria, Vienna 2012, pp. 80, 83.
  6. ↑ a b c d Statistics Austria (ed.): Kulturstatistik 2012 , Statistics Austria, Vienna 2014, pp. 85, 87, 89.
  7. ^ Karl Stubenvoll: 75 Years of the Social Science Study Library of the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees for Vienna , 1997, p. 83.
  8. ^ AK Library Vienna: Holdings of the library ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wien.arbeiterkammer.at archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 27, 2014.
  9. ↑ Austria Press Agency : AK demands a right to e-books for libraries and libraries , accessed on January 3, 2015.
  10. ↑ Herwig Jobst: Digital Chamber of Labor: Concept, implementation, ongoing operation . In: Klaus Niedermair (ed.): The new library. Claim and Reality. 31st Austrian Librarians' Day, Innsbruck 2011 , Neugebauer, Innsbruck 2011, pp. 359–362 ( PDF; 766 kB ).
  11. ^ Karl Stubenvoll: 75 Years of the Social Science Study Library of the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees for Vienna , 1997, p. 74.
  12. ^ Karl Stubenvoll: Social science study library of the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees for Vienna . In: Austrian National Library (Ed.): Handbook of the historical book collections in Austria , Volume 2, Part 2, Hildesheim u. a. 1995, pp. 109-113; Karl Stubenvoll: 75 Years of the Social Science Study Library of the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees for Vienna , 1997, p. 88.
  13. ^ Karl Stubenvoll: 75 Years of the Social Science Study Library of the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees for Vienna , 1997, p. 36.
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