State and University Library Hamburg
| State and University Library Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky |
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| founding | 1479 and 1919 |
| Duration | 5 million |
| Library type | University library , state library |
| place | Hamburg |
| ISIL | DE-18 |
| management | Robert Zepf |
| Website | http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ |
The State and University Library Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky ( Stabi or SUB Hamburg for short ) is the largest academic library in the city-state of Hamburg and the Hamburg metropolitan region . The public library is in particular a central library of the University of Hamburg and the other state universities and research institutions ( university library ). It serves to supply literature and information to science , culture , the press , business and administration . Since 2011 it has had the legal form of a state company belonging to the authority for science, research, equality and districts .
The library is supported by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and performs the tasks of a state and archive library . As the state library, it also has the right to deposit copies in Hamburg. It thus occupies an important position within the Hamburg libraries . In honor of the Hamburg-born Nobel Peace Prize laureate and victim of National Socialism, it has been named after Carl von Ossietzky since 1983 .
Robert Zepf has been the director of the SUB Hamburg since September 2, 2019 .
location
It has had its headquarters in the Rotherbaum district in the Eimsbüttel district ( Von-Melle -Park 3) since 1945 . Here it is centrally located on the main campus of the university district ( Grindelviertel ) with other central facilities of the University of Hamburg and related institutions.
history
Hamburg Council Library
A council library was established as the first public library in Hamburg in 1479. It was housed in the town hall and goes back to a foundation by Mayor Hinrich Murmester . Murmester had studied law in Italy and came into contact with humanism there. The library should be open to "every respectable man". For a number of years the files of the Hamburg finance department contain expenses for the maintenance of the library. However, nothing is known about their final whereabouts.
School library in the former St. Johannis monastery
After the Reformation in 1529, Johannes Bugenhagen introduced a new church order in Hamburg . This not only established a new Latin school, the Johanneum , but also a library that was set up in the classrooms in the former St. Johannis monastery (in place of today's town hall market ). According to the church ordinance, “all boke gudt and bose” should be gathered in it. Most likely the books of the monasteries dissolved by the Reformation were placed in this library.
When the school was reformed in 1610 and the establishment of the Academic Gymnasium began in 1613 , the councilor and later mayor Sebastian von Bergen solicited money and book donations. Foundations were made not only by councilors and Hamburg scholars, but also by some guilds . The books that were acquired and donated were mainly representative editions of the ancient classics and works of theology and history; they were initially placed in the Prima des Johanneum. Under the rectorate of the natural scientist Joachim Jungius , the Johanneum initially remained united with the grammar school, but in 1640 the teaching facilities were formally separated and the book inventory was also divided between two school libraries, with the academic grammar school having a much larger share.
The common library
When larger private collections were offered to the grammar school library, a library hall in the Johanniskloster above the grammar school was prepared and decorated in a representative way. A dome, in which the starry sky was represented with the stars, constellations and circles of degrees, a kind of celestial globe , made a special impression on the contemporaries . The stars were made of gold-plated sheet metal and were attached to their “natural place”. A mathematician had transferred the positions to the dome. Otto Wagenfeld took care of the artistic design. For the first time a paid librarian was appointed and library regulations were issued.
The scholar and lawyer Friedrich Lindenbruch bequeathed his collection to the library, which in addition to humanistic and legal works also contained valuable manuscripts. The mathematics professor Johann Adolf Tassius sold his books and mathematical instruments to the city of Hamburg for a life annuity of 60 marks for himself and his wife. The value of the collection is said to have far exceeded the payment. His handwritten estate also came to the library after his death. The city physicist Paul Marquard Schlegel bequeathed his medical literature and preparations to the library. In 1696, Hamburg printers and publishers were required to submit the documents to the city library, which has the right to deposit copies. It became a public city library in 1751 and receives library regulations, and a new building will be built at the same location for the holdings of 50,000 volumes. It was officially announced in 1781 that the Hamburg City Library would be made even more non-profit in the future. In 1801 she received an annual acquisition budget. In 1840, the Johanneum School of Scholars moved into the new Johanneum building at Speersort on the site of the former cathedral , where it was spared the Hamburg fire .
State and University Library
The University of Hamburg was founded in 1919. The city library also took on the task of a university library. After the Johanneum Scholars' School moved out, the Commerzbibliothek was also housed in the building. With the first Hamburg University Act of February 4, 1921, the institution was renamed the State and University Library. Operation Gomorrah destroyed the library during World War II. In 1943 the inventory had grown to around 850,000 volumes, of which 700,000 were destroyed in the air raids. The Hamburg library was the German library with the greatest wartime losses. Only part of the book inventory had been relocated before the air raids. In 1945 the library moved into the Wilhelm-Gymnasium building in the university quarter. A book magazine was set up in 1960. An administration building was added in 1968. The last wing of the building complex was completed in 1982 and released for users. On the 50th anniversary of the National Socialist book burning , it was named the State and University Library Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky in honor of the pacifist journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner , who was arrested by the National Socialists in 1933 and died as a result of his imprisonment in a concentration camp . In addition to extensive literature on politics and peace research, it therefore collects pacifist and anti-militarist literature as well as publications on von Ossietzky in all European languages in the Carl von Ossietzky reading room as a center of remembrance, which also houses the library and archive of the Walter A. Berendsohn Research Center for houses German exile literature .
First librarians, directors of the library
| Term of office | Name and dates of life | comment | |
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| 1650-1657 | Georg Schumacher (1616–1657) | ||
| 1657-1672 | Johannes Bloom (1620–1672) | ||
| 1672-1679 | Franz Hoppe († 1679) | ||
| 1679-1693 | David Schellhammer (1627 or 1629–1693) | ||
| 1693-1746 | Peter Surland (1660-1748) | ||
| 1746-1770 | Johann Christian Wolf (1689-1770) | ||
| 1770-1778 | Johann Wunderlich and Gottfried Schütze | executive | |
| 1778-1784 | Gottfried Schütze (1719–1784) | ||
| 1784-1794 | Martin Friedrich Pitiscus (1722–1794) | since 1779 second librarian | |
| 1794-1796 | Paul Dietrich Giseke (1741–1796) | since 1784 second librarian | |
| 1796-1798 | Anton August Heinrich Lichtenstein (1753–1816) | since 1794 second librarian | |
| 1799-1817 | Christoph Daniel Ebeling (1741-1817) | ||
| 1818-1851 | Johann Georg Christian Lehmann (1792–1860) | ||
| 1851-1872 | Christian Petersen (1802–1872) | since 1832 second librarian | |
| 1872-1882 | Meyer Isler (1807-1888) | ||
| 1883-1901 | Robert Münzel (1859-1917) | ||
| 1918-1943 | Gustav Wahl (1877–1947) | ||
| 1943-1945 | Heinrich Theodor Reincke (1881–1960) | Acting, 1933–1948 Director of the State Archives | |
| 1945-1967 | Hermann Tiemann (1899–1981) | ||
| 1967-1978 | Hellmut Braun (1913-2008) | ||
| 1978-1998 | Horst Gronemeyer (* 1933) | ||
| 1998-2005 | Peter Rau (* 1940) | ||
| 2005-2018 | Gabriele Beger (* 1952) | ||
| 2018-2019 | Petra Blödorn-Meyer (* 1960) | executive | |
| 2019- | Robert Zepf (* 1968) |
Duration
The current holdings of the Hamburg State and University Library are around five million print and electronic media. Most of the inventory is in a magazine. The current holdings for the last ten years are available in the self-service area. The most important reference works, manuals and magazines are freely accessible in the reading rooms, and in special reading rooms there are also special collections from various areas (manuscripts, hamburgs and map collections), a total of around 150,000 volumes, as well as an extensive collection of bibliographical and biographical reference works (53,000 volumes and 66,000 microfiches) and a textbook collection for students with multiple copies from a wide variety of subject areas (around 50,000 volumes).
There are also around 540,000 electronic media (including 56,000 electronic journals ), 250 incunabula , around 580 bequests (for example from Joachim Jungius , Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , Johann Mattheson , Detlev von Liliencron , Richard Dehmel , Hans Henny Jahnn , Wolfgang Borchert , Hubert Fichte ) and around 780,000 notes and manuscripts .
Every year around 65,000 new volumes are added to the holdings of the Hamburg State and University Library.
Stock focus
The library was involved in the special collection area plan of the German Research Foundation until 2015 and acquired the German and foreign language literature as completely as possible for the areas of Spain and Portugal, indigenous peoples of North America and the Arctic, politics and peace research, administrative sciences as well as coastal and deep-sea fishing. Since 2016, the Romance Studies department has been providing literature for Romance studies together with the University and State Library of Bonn . In addition, Latin American Studies is a traditional focus in the affiliated Linga library . As the state library of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the library collects all printed works, electronic publications and sound carriers published in Hamburg as so-called deposit copies. In addition, all literature related to Hamburg is acquired as comprehensively as possible and listed in the Hamburg bibliography.
Campaign Hamburg without words
Since the SUB's book inventory is threatened by acid damage , the library, under the patronage of the then Hamburg Senator for Culture, Karin von Welck, launched a large-scale rescue campaign entitled Hamburg Without Words , which attracted nationwide media attention. Around 4 million volumes in Hamburg's academic libraries have been acid-damaged. The financial requirement for deacidification alone of the 1.4 million volumes that are particularly important for the collections is estimated at around 20 million euros. Since 2009, the authority for science and research has made available 0.8–1 million euros per year for mass deacidification on a budget item “Measures to preserve endangered holdings in academic libraries”. This means that around 60,000 volumes from the years of publication 1840–1990 can be stabilized and preserved for posterity every year.
building
The main library building houses the lending center with self-service area and textbook collection, the information center, five reading rooms, the media workshop, a lecture room, an exhibition room and a cafeteria.
The old building houses the “Carl von Ossietzky” reading room, the “Wolfgang Swiss Library, Hamburg Homeopathic Library”, the library of the Medical Association , the Wolfgang Borchert Archive, the Linga Library and the research center for German exile literature. The Hamburg Theater Collection and the Center for Theater Research were also located here until 2014. With the handover of the holdings from the University of Hamburg, they were combined with the theater-historical holdings of the library. They can now be borrowed from the campus catalog. A 16-storey tower, a compact magazine and a storage library in Bergedorf serve as the magazine .
tasks
As a university library, the library has the task of a central library of the library system of the University of Hamburg and a central library of the other Hamburg universities. As a state library, it also has the role of a state and archive library, with the legal mandate to collect and archive the printed works published in Hamburg ( deposit copies ) and official publications as well as the comprehensive collection of literature related to Hamburg and the region. With its extensive inventory and information services, it serves science, culture, education and professional work and further training. As a cultural institute, it participates in maintaining the historical tradition and the scientific and cultural life in the Hanseatic city, whose scientific and cultural memory it helps to shape. It is committed to the principle of freedom of research and teaching and procures, develops and mediates sources of information from all subject areas as an institution open to all interested persons.
Other tasks include the DFG- funded Romance Studies specialist information service or cooperation with domestic and foreign libraries and academic information institutions, such as participation in national and international interlibrary loan and the express delivery service ( Subito ).
Specialist information service Romance studies
The State and University Library has been running the specialist information service Romance Studies together with the ULB Bonn since 2016 . The service enables Romance scholars throughout Germany quick and comprehensive access to specialist academic literature and research-relevant information. It is funded by the DFG as part of the specialist information services for science funding program , which replaced the special collection area plan. In particular through its search portal, the FID links up with the virtual specialist libraries Vifarom and cibera , the latter being operated by the SUB together with other institutions on the subject of Ibero-America / Spain / Portugal.
Library system University of Hamburg
The state and university library Carl von Ossietzky (Landesbetrieb), the libraries of the University of Hamburg and the central medical library of the UKE (ÄZB) belong to the virtual roof library system of the University of Hamburg . On the basis of cooperation agreements, the libraries involved agree organizationally on issues relating to the acquisition, provision and use of media.
Responsibilities
- The SUB is the central lending and archive library of Hamburg universities. As a library competence center, it operates together with the regional computing center (RRZ) the library technology infrastructure for the indexing and provision of the media (the local library system - LBS). The holdings of the Stabi and the specialist libraries (including the holdings of the ÄZB) are recorded in a joint online catalog (campus catalog).
- The libraries of the University of Hamburg are divided into 16 specialist libraries, 11 research and special libraries as well as 10 special collections with a stock of around 3.8 million media (e-resources, books, magazines, maps, etc.).
- The Medical Central Library (ÄZB) is - from a legal point of view - not part of the university, but is still part of the University of Hamburg library system. It takes care of both students of the medical faculty and the specialist staff of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf .
publishing company
The library operates its own publishing house with Hamburg University Press . All works of this publisher are accessible free of charge via Open Access .
Stella
Since 2004, the library chatbot Stella has been helping users navigate the library's website and making it easier to use electronic services. Employees evaluated frequently asked questions and adjusted the database on which Stella was based. Stella has not been used since the library's website was revised on March 3, 2016.
Exhibitions
Around eight exhibitions are presented each year in the exhibition room and in the corridor to the atrium.
literature
- Friedrich Johann Lorenz Meyer : The city library. in: Sketches for a painting from Hamburg , Volume 2, 6th issue, Verlag Friedrich Hermann Nestler , Hamburg, 1804, p. 276, ( digitized version ).
- Johann Anton Rudolph Janssen : The public city library in Hamburg , in: Detailed news about all the evangelical-protestant churches and clergy in the free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg and their area, as well as about their Johanneum, grammar school, library and the men employed there , Hoffmann & Campe , Perthes & Besser and Herold, Hamburg, 1826, p. 473 ff, ( digitized version ).
- Christian Petersen : History of the Hamburg City Library , Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg, 1838, ( digitized ).
- Johann Georg Christian Lehmann , Christian Petersen: Views and structural plans of the new buildings for Hamburg's public educational institutions briefly described and in connection with the plan for the future installation of the city library , to celebrate the inauguration on May 4, 1840, Johann August Meissner, Hamburg, 1840 , ( Digitized version ).
- Third section: Alphabetical list of the most important local public institutions, charitable foundations and associations, scientific institutes and collections, buildings worth seeing, etc. , in Hamburg address book for 1852, p. 439 ff., ( SUB Hamburg ).
- Report by Professor Dr. Petersen, City Librarian, on the Hamburg City Library and the collections associated with it. in: Intellektivenblatt zum Serapeum , Volume (1867), Issue 9, pp. 65–69, ( digitized ) and Issue 10, pp. 73–76, ( digitized ).
- Werner Kayser: 500 years of the scientific library in Hamburg: 1479 - 1979; from the council library to the state and university library . Hamburg, Hauswedell, 1979 ISBN 3-7762-0167-3 (= communications from the Hamburg State and University Library, vol. 8)
Web links
- State and University Library Hamburg, Carl von Ossietzky. Retrieved November 10, 2018 .
- Stabi blog. Retrieved November 10, 2018 .
- Discovery system catalog plus of the library system Universität Hamburg. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
- beluga - catalog of the Hamburg libraries. Retrieved November 10, 2018 .
- Databases information system. Retrieved November 10, 2018 .
- Specialist information service Romance studies . Retrieved August 13, 2019.
- Iberialiber: Library network on Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula in Hamburg. Retrieved November 10, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The new Stabi director Robert Zepf is here. In: Stabi blog. September 2, 2019, accessed September 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Gottlieb Christoph Harless , Critical Messages from Smaller Theological, Philosophical, Historical and Philological Writings , Vol. 1; 3. Stk., Vierlingsche Buchhandlung, Hof, 1783, p. 175 ff. ( Online ), (small outline of the story up to 1783).
- ^ List according to Kayser, 500 Years of Scientific Library in Hamburg 1479–1979
- ↑ http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/recherche
- ↑ http://linga-bibliothek.de/index.htm Linga library for Latin America research
- ↑ Libraries: Acid corrosion causes books to crumble. In: Spiegel Online . July 30, 2007, accessed June 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Portraits of the libraries of the University of Hamburg ( Memento from June 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
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