University and State Library Darmstadt

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Exterior view of the new building ULB Stadtmitte
Main entrance of the new building ULB Stadtmitte

Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 35.5 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 27.5 ″  E

The University and State Library Darmstadt (ULB) is the central facility for the supply of literature to the Technical University of Darmstadt . It is used for research, teaching and studying at the TU Darmstadt and at the training and research institutions in the region. As a scientific library , it also supplies the population of southern Hesse as well as the authorities and cultural institutes located here with literature. Her collection focuses on scientific and technical works, humanities and social science as well as regional studies.

The ULB has been the deposit copy library for the southern Hesse area and the Gießen region since 1805. It is also a depository and exchange library for the German Academy for Language and Poetry and the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies .

In the library buildings ULB Stadtmitte and ULB Lichtwiese, around 1,100 workplaces are available, including numerous individual and group work rooms. Workshops and tours as well as exhibitions on various topics are offered regularly. The library offers a wide range of current information media in printed and digital form. A total of around 4 million electronic and printed media and a large number of databases are available. Most of the frequently used literature is freely available. Elderly, e.g. In some cases, less popular or historically significant stocks can be ordered from the closed store. All holdings can be researched online via “TUfind”, the ULB's search portal.

The International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related Organizations (ISIL) according to ISO 15511 is DE-17 for the ULB Stadtmitte and DE-17-2 for the ULB Lichtwiese.

history

The old location of the university and state library in Darmstadt's residential palace

Landgrave Georg I's book collection formed the basis of the library, which he brought from Kassel to Darmstadt when Hesse was partitioned in 1567. The year 1568, in which the first book purchases are documented, is assumed to be the founding date of the Darmstadt court library. In 1685 the court library was closed for the first time. The first librarian was Johann Balthasar Moscherosch , who took office in 1685. The library experienced the greatest growth under Ludwig X. , who advocated increasing the holdings through the targeted acquisition of private libraries. During the secularization of 1803, a number of monastery libraries came into the court library. The collection of Adolf von Hüpsch , which came to Darmstadt after his death in 1805, was of particular importance . In 1817 the court library opened to the public. In 1871 the Grand Ducal Military Library and in 1873 the music of the court music library were incorporated.

In 1902 the Darmstadt library owned 454,000 volumes and was one of the nine largest libraries in the German Reich. In 1917 it was given the title “Court and State Library” and in 1920 finally “Hessian State Library”. In 1921 the library of the State Theater and in 1931 the library of the Hessian Trade Museum were taken over. This is how the patent specification display came to the castle . In 1922, the Freiherrlich von Closen-Günderrodische Fideikommiss library from Höchst an der Nidder was on permanent loan to the state library (writings from the 16th to 18th centuries).

In 1932 the Hessian State Library moved from the south-east wing, where it was housed for 115 years, to the south-west wing of the Residenzschloß. There new rooms and in particular a large general reading room and a small reading room for magazines have been prepared. Director Hanns Wilhelm Eppelsheimer , who had been in office since 1929, was ousted from office in September 1933. The local researcher and librarian Karl Esselborn followed him as director.

The biggest turning point in the history of the State Library to date was the Darmstadt Fire Night on September 11, 1944, which burned around 400,000 of the 720,000 volumes.

The library of the Technical University, founded in 1872 and housed in the main building since 1895, suffered a similar fate and lost around 80,000 of 120,000 volumes. A decree of the Hessian Minister for Culture and Education of August 16, 1948 ordered the amalgamation of the Hessian State Library and the library of the Technical University to form the "Hessian State and University Library Darmstadt".

The reconstruction of the merged library was started by Hans Rasp and completed in the 1960s by Erich Zimmermann . In 1971 the library was given a second location on the Lichtwiese on the campus of the Technical University of Darmstadt . Due to the lack of space in the castle, the patent information center had to be relocated in 1989 and the theater history collection and map collection in 1993. From 1994 to 1997 the reading rooms in the east wing of the palace were completely renovated. The 1990s were marked by the introduction of electronic data processing.

Until 1999 the "Hessian State and University Library" was directly subordinate to the Ministry for Science and Art. In January 2000 it was organizationally integrated into the Technical University of Darmstadt and since February 24, 2004 has been called the “University and State Library Darmstadt” (ULB).

On November 12, 2012, the new building of the central library on the Stadtmitte campus, which also brings together a large number of departmental libraries, was opened to users. Seen from above, the new ULB Stadtmitte looks like a “small b” or the “number 6 or 9”.

After only two years of construction, the new building of a lecture hall and media center (HMZ) on the Lichtwiese campus was opened to the public in May 2013. The ULB Lichtwiese has its domicile in this building. As in the ULB Stadtmitte, the media here are also geared towards the needs of the specialist areas.

cables

Head of the court library (from 1568):

Head of the Hessian State Library (from 1920):

Head of the university library (from 1872):

Head of the Hessian State and University Library (from July 16, 1948):

Head of the University and State Library (since February 24, 2004):

The departments of the ULB

Majestas Domini from the Hitda Codex , one of the most valuable manuscripts in the library

The ULB consists of the management, the staff units, training and further education, public relations as well as the budget and statistics officer and has six departments.

Department 1: Inventory development and development

Department 1 deals, among other things, with the acquisition and indexing of media. This course of business is thematically distributed among the specialist teams “Humanities and Social Sciences”, “Mathematics, Natural and Engineering Sciences” and “Natural and Engineering Sciences, Culture and Architecture”. In addition, there is the Licenses and Rights team, which acts as a contact point for licenses for electronic resources and various legal questions.

Department 2: Service, Information and Publishing

In Department 2, activities with external impact and a service function are combined. These include the areas of service and information, information literacy, interlibrary loan, digital publishing, websites, the Rhein-Main patent and trademark center and the European Documentation Center.

The European Documentation Center (EDZ) advises, researches and provides information on all subject areas of the European Union. As a contact for science, business and the region, it works closely with the EU institutions and their information networks.

The Rhein-Main Patent and Trademark Center (PMZ) is an authorized cooperation partner of the German Patent and Trademark Office. The PMZ acts as a contact and advice center for inventors and companies throughout southern Hesse. At Holzhofallee 38, it offers a wide range of services with absolute discretion.

Department 3: Information Technology, Research and Development

The information technology, research and development department is a central department within the ULB with a wide range of tasks. This includes, in particular, supplying the library with a communication infrastructure and ensuring and maintaining the ongoing operation of the local library system. The department also deals with long-term archiving and research data management .

The Digitization Center (DIZ) as a work area of ​​information technology, research and development coordinates and organizes the Digital Collections Darmstadt, the repro service (digitization on demand) of the ULB, as well as services and infrastructure related to this topic.

Department 4: Historical Collections

The oldest holdings of the ULB come from the landgrave's court library. After secularization , other valuable medieval manuscripts from monasteries in southern Hesse and Westphalia came to the library. These stocks were the collection of Adolf von Hüpsch added that as a legacy of Louis X fell. In total, the collection today comprises over 8,600 manuscripts and 2,050 incunabula in various fields of knowledge from the 9th to the 20th century. The most beautiful codices include the Hitda Codex , the Gero Codex and the Golden Bull (both included in the UNESCO World Document Heritage List ), the Vita Annonis Minor and the Lochner Prayer Book. In addition to manuscripts and incunabula , the department includes historical prints from the 16th to 18th centuries as well as bibliophile editions, press prints and artist books .

The music collection holds 4,774 autographs, mainly from the Baroque and Early Classical periods, at the center of which is the complete works of the Darmstadt court conductor Christoph Graupner .

Another focus of the collection are the 150 estates of personalities with historical reference to the city of Darmstadt or the region. Among the most important are the bequests of the philosopher Hermann Graf Keyserling and his grandfather Alexander Graf Keyserling .

Department 5: Conservation

The ULB has its own conservation department, which consists of the restoration workshop, prevention, the newspaper and binding department and the magazine. It is a cross-departmental facility with a focus on preventive, conservation and restoration conservation. This includes the organization, coordination and implementation of all conservation measures.

Department 6: Administration

In the administration, the internal tasks of household, locking system and key management, technical infrastructure and post office are bundled.

Special collections

The theater collection documents the performances of the Darmstadt State Theater and its predecessors and is one of the few special collections of this type in the German-speaking area. The oldest documents come from the second half of the 18th century. Today mainly stage and costume designs, photos of scenes, artist portraits, programs and books, posters, press reports, stage yearbooks and theater magazines are archived.

The map collection of the former court library goes back to the beginnings of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt in the 16th century. The largest part consists of printed cards with approx. 26,000 individual sheets. Other parts include war and maneuver maps, as well as hand-drawn maps and plans, including city and district plans, gardens and parks. Collections of local views and portraits as well as a poster collection with political and graphic posters follow.

literature

  • Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt: 450 years of collecting and imparting knowledge - From the court library to the Darmstadt state library , Justus-von-Liebig-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-87390-402-6 .
  • Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Ed.): Neue Mitte [n] The library buildings of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. Justus-von-Liebig-Verlag, Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-87390-351-7 .
  • Erich Zimmermann (Ed.): Through the centuries electricity: Contributions to the history of the Hessian State and University Library Darmstadt [for the 400th anniversary of the library]. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1967.
  • Hans-Georg Nolte-Fischer: Hessian State and University Library Darmstadt. In: Bernd Hagenau (Ed.): Regional libraries in Germany: with a view of Austria and Switzerland. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2000 (ZfBB: Sonderheft 78), pp. 263–269, ISBN 3-465-03085-0 .
  • Friedrich List , Walter Sbrzesny: The main library, a historical and technical overview. In: One Hundred Years of Technical University Darmstadt. A picture of their becoming and working. Darmstadt 1936, pp. 207-212.

Web links

Commons : University and State Library Darmstadt  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Minister for Culture and Education: Merging of the university library and the state library in Darmstadt from August 16, 1948. In: State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1948 No. 35, p. 387, point 420 ( online at the Hessen State Gazette [PDF; 1.5 MB] ). Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  2. ^ University and State Library Darmstadt - city center; Development on the website of the ULB Darmstadt. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  3. ^ The new building of the university and state library on the website of the Technical University of Darmstadt. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  4. ↑ Helge Svenshon: The new auditorium and media center of the Technical University of Darmstadt on campus Lichtwiese In: ABI Technology 2013; 33 (3). DOI: 10.1515 / abitech-2013-00. Retrieved July 29, 2019.