Schaffhausen City Library
| Schaffhausen City Library | |
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 City library with Allerheiligen minster tower
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| Library type | library |
| place | Schaffhausen |
| Visitor address | Münsterplatz 1 Schwesterngasse 1 |
| ISIL | CH-000082-3 |
| management | Oliver Thiele |
| Website | www.bibliotheken-schaffhausen.ch |
The Schaffhausen City Library is one of the study and educational libraries .
It maintains a universal scientific inventory, but without being associated with a university . Since the canton of Schaffhausen does not have its own library , the city library performs the tasks of a cantonal library . As such, it collects literature on local and regional history, but, like most other Swiss cantonal libraries, cannot rely on the right to deposit copies .
A canton library should not only be dedicated to the scientific and historical maintenance, but also fulfill a maintenance mandate for the population. This dual function is shared by two spatially separated libraries in Schaffhausen :
- the city library on Münsterplatz ▼ with the historical collections, manuscripts , incunabula , scientific specialist literature, cultural Schaffhauser ( Scaphusiana ) and the Ministerialbibliothek . It will continue to be managed as a magazine library.
- Media inventory (2018): 232,300
- the open access library Agnes Schutte ▼ a modern, public library with open shelves of popular scientific and entertaining literature, children's books, audio-visual media.
- Media inventory (2018): 46,200
history
Schaffhausen has a long and rich library history. The Benedictine monastery of All Saints, founded in 1049, already had a library and a scriptorium . The first directory of books from that time has been preserved, as well as around 70 manuscripts from the 11th / 12th Century. In the course of the Reformation , however , the monastery was closed, the library holdings passed to the Reformed clergy and now formed the basis of the ministerial library, first mentioned in 1547. This library remains under spiritual care; its holdings are now managed as a deposit by the city library .
Since the ministerial library was too specialized in theological literature and not accessible to the public, some Schaffhausen citizens founded their own library in 1636, based on the model of the Zurich civil library . This citizen's library is above all a scientific library that is supposed to satisfy the urge of the time for general learning. In order to build up and expand a collection, the Citizens Library is dependent on voluntary book and monetary donations from the population. In its early days it was housed in the Kreuzsaal of the abolished Allerheiligen monastery, but then moved to Rheinstrasse in 1792. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Citizens' Library became the property of the city, was given a new legal basis and is now officially called the City Library .
In the course of the 19th century, the number of users and the tasks of the library expanded . In order to provide enough space for the new demands, she changes location again and first settles in 1829 on the Herrenacker, then in 1923 in the Korn- und Kabishaus near the Münsterturm. The building will be rebuilt between 1993 and 1995 and again by an underground magazine expanded.
In 1986 the centralization of different functional areas in one building was abolished. The two - physically separate, but jointly administered - branch libraries are created.
Use and inventory
The city library and the ministerial library it manages are characterized by an extensive old collection: 160 medieval manuscripts from the Allerheiligen monastery and from other origins , including the Vita s. Columbae (7th century), 260 incunabula (prints from before 1500), manuscripts and letters from the Reformation period and from the 18th century. Special mention should be made of the papers of the Schaffhausen reformer Johann Conrad Ulmer (1519–1600) and the estates of the brothers Johannes von Müller (1752–1809) and Johann Georg Müller (1759–1819).
The City Library on Cathedral Square and the open access library Agnes Schutte addressed to all and provide facilities for self-study , encounter and exchange of ideas. Use of the libraries is free. A personal user card is required for the home loan. This card is valid for both the Agnesenschütte library and the library on Münsterplatz. The user can research the holdings of both libraries via the online catalog . All books and media from 1985 and increasingly older collections are listed there.
literature
- Heinrich Boos : Directory of the manuscripts and incunabula of the Schaffhausen City Library, together with a directory of the handwritten estate of Johannes von Müller . Schaffhausen 1903.
- Johann Jakob Mezger : History of the city library in Schaffhausen . Schaffhausen 1871.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Oliver Thiele: Annual Report 2018. In: Schaffhausen City Library. Retrieved February 3, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Reinhard Frauenfelder: History of the City Library Schaffhausen. Commemorative publication commemorating its three-centenary 1636-1936 . City council of the city of Schaffhausen, 1936.
- ^ René Specht: 350 years of the Schaffhausen City Library . Schaffhausen portfolio. Reprint, 1987.
- ↑ website. Collections . Retrieved February 6, 2020.