Dortmund University Library
| Dortmund University Library | |
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| founding | 1965 |
| Library type | University library |
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Dortmund 
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| ISIL | DE-290 |
| Website | www.ub.tu-dortmund.de |
The University Library of the Technical University of Dortmund offers its users around 1.7 million printed books, journals and other media as well as over 42,000 electronic journals and almost 97,000 e-books. It consists of a central library and three affiliated departmental libraries with collections from the humanities and social sciences as well as literature on architecture, civil engineering and spatial planning.
The library offers basic literature on almost all subject areas; In accordance with the teaching and research assignment of the Technical University of Dortmund, there are additional focal points in the fields of technology , natural sciences , educational science , economics and social sciences . Books or journal articles that are not available on site are obtained via interlibrary loan and document delivery services. A delivery service even brings the desired title to work or directly to your home.
The library offers target group-oriented tours and courses on all aspects of scientific research and work as well as library use. The courses on offer are tailored to the needs of library users and provide orientation and support for academic work.
The library's offerings are primarily aimed at members of the Technical University of Dortmund . In addition, the library also makes its services available to external parties and business enterprises from the region. It cooperates with the faculties and institutions within the university and with external libraries and research institutes. There is a particularly close cooperation with the Bochum University Library and the Duisburg-Essen University Library within the framework of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr) .
Special services
- The archive of the Technical University of Dortmund has extensive documents on the history of the university, which was founded in 1968, and its predecessor institutions.
- With the holdings of the library of the German Society for Railway History eV (DGEG), the Dortmund University Library has railway-related literature and timetables. The railway literature originally placed in a separate magazine is now freely accessible and can be borrowed.
- Eldorado ( el ektronisches Do kumenten-, R etrieval- and A rchivierungssystem University of Technology Do rtmund): saves the institutional repository of the University of Dortmund, opening up of resources and for teaching, study and research and makes it available to the public.
- The university bibliography compiled by the library for the Technical University of Dortmund gradually and comprehensively documents all publications of the TU Dortmund.
- The InetBib discussion list was launched in 1994 by the Dortmund University Library and is still today a nationwide communication platform on the subject of information technology in libraries.
- The Information Center for Technology and Patents (ITP) provides services related to intellectual property patent and utility model (technology), brands (product code) and design / design . It is the official receiving office of the German Patent and Trademark Office for patent, utility model, trademark and design registrations for forwarding to the DPMA.
- Service for the Blind and Visually Impaired : In the Internet-accessible Sehkon ( Seh damaged K atalogue On line) recorded the library media for the visually impaired with quotable reacted literature in Germany. Full texts for the blind and visually impaired are available in the Eldorado repository. There is a special work room for the blind and visually impaired in the central library.
- The Zeitschriften-Informationsdienst (ZID) provides tables of contents of magazines and newspapers according to the user's wishes by email.
history
The university library was designed as a single-layer integrated library system with a central library as a lending library and affiliated departmental libraries as reference libraries. This followed the German Research Foundation, which had recommended this model as a model system in 1970.
Under the leadership of the first library director Hartwig Lohse and four employees, the Dortmund University Library was founded on June 1, 1965, three years before official teaching began. In the first year of construction, the library was housed in a provisional pavilion on today's South Campus. Just one year later, she was able to move into a new building on August-Schmidt-Strasse in the immediate vicinity. The library's 1970s were characterized by the permanent establishment of new departmental libraries: spatial planning (1969), mathematics as well as physics and chemical engineering (1970), computer science, statistics, mechanical engineering and environmental protection (1972), electrical engineering (1973), construction (1974) and chemistry (1976). In 1969, the patent publication department was also incorporated, and in 1972 the German Society for Railway History gave the university library its holdings on permanent loan .
In 1976, after a construction period of three years, the central library moved to a new building at Vogelpothsweg 76 on today's North Campus. The new building was designed according to the plans of Valentin Wehefritz, the library director at the time.
With the incorporation of the Ruhr University of Education into the university on April 1, 1980, the library of the University of Education was also transferred to the university library. The following years were therefore characterized by extensive work on taking over the departmental libraries: education and biology, special education and rehabilitation, social sciences and theology, linguistics and literature, journalism as well as music, design, sport, geography. This integration increased the number of decentralized libraries in the university library system from 12 to a total of 17.
The university library has been cataloging its holdings in the library network of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (HBZ, University Library Center NRW) since 1991. As early as February 1995, the first Internet workstations were available for users in the central library.
In 2007 the humanities departmental libraries, which were previously housed on two separate floors, were merged into the renovated rooms on the first floor. The Emil Figge Library now contains the literature for the subjects of the Faculties of Education and Sociology, Rehabilitation Sciences, Human Sciences and Theology, Cultural Studies, and Art and Sports Studies.
Since 2008, the university library has also been the location of the newly established university archive, which was officially assigned to the university library as a separate department in 2012. In addition, the library has a number of special collections such as the archive of the women's movement or the holdings of the former East Central Europe Research Center.
In 2011, the number of departmental libraries increased for a short time due to the integration of the departmental library Social Research Center (BSFS) into the library system, since the Social Research Center Dortmund in Dortmund-Eving has been one of the central scientific institutions of the Technical University of Dortmund since 2007. Also in 2011, the IT department library, which was previously located on Campus South, was integrated into the premises of the Physics department library, so that in the end the number of department libraries initially remained the same.
In 2012, the Departmental Library for Environmental Research and Biology moved into the premises of the Departmental Library for Chemistry. At the beginning of 2014, the holdings of the biological and chemical engineering and electrical engineering divisional library were split between the physics and chemistry divisional libraries. In 2015, the two natural science libraries as well as the mathematics and statistics departmental library and their entire holdings were integrated into the central library. Since mid-June 2015, the former social research center department library has no longer been accessible to external parties. The Dortmund University Library currently consists of a central library and three departmental libraries: Emil Figge Library, Departmental Library Architecture and Civil Engineering and Departmental Library Spatial Planning.
Joachim Kreische has been the executive director of the university library since 2010. Its predecessors were
- 1965–1970 Hartwig Lohse
- 1970–1995 Valentin Wehefritz
- 1995 Martin Büren (acting head)
- 1995–2009 Marlene Nagelsmeier-Linke
- 2009–2010 Norbert Gövert (acting head)
- since 2010 Joachim Kreische