Salzburg University Library

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Salzburg University Library
University Library Salzburg.jpg
Entrance to the main library

founding 1652
Library type University library
place Salzburg
ISIL AT-UBS-HB (University of Salzburg, main library)
operator University of Salzburg
management Ursula Schachl-Raber
Website www.uni-salzburg.ac.at/bibliothek

The Salzburg University Library (also: Salzburg University Library ; formerly: Salzburg Study Library ) is the entirety of all individual libraries of the University of Salzburg . The library, founded in 1652, now comprises a main library and a number of larger and smaller sub-libraries for the individual academic departments. The use is not only permitted for scientifically working persons, but is open to the entire population.

history

Prince Archbishop Markus Sittikus von Hohenems (1574–1619) founded a higher educational institution in Salzburg on September 20, 1617 in association with the cathedral chapter and the St. Peter monastery with the intention of expanding it into a university. In a document dated October 31, 1619, the cathedral chapter dedicated this school to order a Bibliotheca anjetzo at an early 500 guilders cash. As the successor to Markus Sittikus von Hohenems, Prince Archbishop Paris von Lodron (1586–1653) issued the university's deed of foundation on September 1, 1623 (based on the imperial approval of March 9, 1620). Due to these historical contexts, the management of the University Library Salzburg regards the library-related foundation act of 1619 as the hour of the birth of their institute.

In 1652, the University Library of Salzburg was founded by the fourth rector of the university ( Alma Mater Sancti Caroli Salisburgensis ), Benedictine Father Alphons Stadelmayr (1610–1683) from Weingarten Abbey , under Prince Archbishop Paris von Lodron in the true sense, as Stadelmayr books a worthy and permanent place created . As early as 1649, Christoph Besold's book collection, which comprised 3,820 volumes, was purchased, which also contained many books by the Tübingen Chancellor Osiander . Abbot Albert of St. Peter Abbey , Abbot Urban of Admont Monastery and Court Chancellor Johann Christoph Mezger (1594–1658) increased the book collection. In 1768 the Kuchard-Scheckische legacy was added. After that, the library already consisted of more than 12,000 volumes.

Franz Ignaz Thanner around 1850

The French era at the beginning of the 19th century marked a significant turning point in the history of the university. The secularization of the archbishopric by Emperor Franz I of Austria resulted in the transfer of most of the archbishop's court library   to the university. The Berchtesgadner and the Kajetaner library were also handed over to the university (1807 to 1809), and later that of the bishops of the Chiemsee diocese , who had resided in Salzburg. In the whirlwind of rapid changes in rule (French, Bavarian, Austrian), treasures from these collections were carried off to Paris, Munich and Vienna. Because after the dethronement of its princes, Salzburg was left to the will of the neighboring powers, and there was no one there who could have prevented the deportation. The most beautiful miniature codices of the Renaissance prince Bernhard von Rohr , then the main work by Tycho Brahe with his personal dedication to Archbishop Wolf Dietrich as well as several manuscripts from the early Middle Ages were lost for Salzburg. The new, expanded university library was renamed Lyzealbibliothek after the Bavarians ordered the dissolution of the university in 1810 and its replacement by a lyceum . Under Franz Ignaz Thanner (1770–1856) the library experienced a significant boom. Thanner was permanently employed as a librarian in 1821 and held his office until 1849.

From 1826 the institution was called the Salzburg Study Library .

With the re-establishment of the University of Salzburg in 1962, the study library was raised to the rank of university library : In the 1970s and early 1980s, large-scale renovations and extensions followed, including the installation of a deep storage facility in the courtyard of the old university building. 

Duration

The holdings of the Salzburg University Library today amount to around one million individual copies. There are kept as a special collection over 1100 manuscripts, including about 375 medieval books from the 8th to the late 16th century.

In 2010 the conversion of the cataloging of old stocks from index cards to digital recording was completed. Since then, the entire inventory has been available in the library's online catalog.

Locations

The main location of the library is in Salzburg's old town opposite the Festival Hall . In addition to the main library, there are more than 20 other libraries of the individual faculties or departments at different locations. The largest library locations with books from several departments are

  • Specialized library for social sciences (history, political science, sociology, communication science)
  • Library in the Unipark (German, English, Romance studies, Slavic studies, linguistics, educational science, art, music and dance studies)
  • Faculty library for natural sciences (psychology, biology, geography, geology, physics, mathematics)
  • Faculty library for law (public law, private law, labor law, commercial law and European law)

borrowing

Book transport system type Telelift in the library's underground storage facility

All of the Salzburg University Library's libraries are primarily used by people with academic work, but are generally available to the entire population free of charge. Loans from the Main Library can - as it is in this not a lending library is - only by order in the online catalog (latency about 1 hour) to be made. The other branch libraries are usually open-access.

The loan periods are different and are based on the one hand on the regulations of the respective branch library and on the other hand on the so-called user status (academic staff, students, general users, etc.). Users of the University Library Salzburg which refers to the subject University Library Regulation (UBV) supporting Library regulations .

In addition to the Salzburg University Library, the Mozarteum University also has its own library with, among other things, extensive sheet music. There is a link to this library in the online catalog of the Salzburg University Library, so that a search can also be carried out in both collections at the same time.

The catalog of the Salzburg University Library is integrated into the general catalog of the Austrian Library Association .

literature

Web links

Commons : Salzburg University Library  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ Son of the composer Johann Stadlmayr (1575–1648). - See individual records The Rectors of the Benedictine University Salzburg (1622–1811) .
  2. ↑ a b In relevant literature, the year of death is often found in 1825. - However, as Karl Foltz records in 1877 in History of the Salzburg Libraries , p. 78, Thanner held his post as librarian in 1849 at the age of eighty .
    Franz Ignaz Thanner, honorary canon and librarian at Salzburg was added Most High resolution of 6 March 1851 in retirement (see: Official part. In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 64/1851, 15 March 1851, p 1, left. Middle. (Online at ANNO . Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz).
    See also: Ludwig Hammermayer : Currents and Countercurrents, Centers and Groups . In: Max Spindler (founder), Andreas Kraus (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian history . Volume 2: Dieter Albrecht : The old Bavaria. The territorial state from the end of the 12th century to the end of the 18th century . Second, revised edition. Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-32320-0 , p. 1151. - Online .
  3. ↑ The former court library was founded by Max Gandolf von Kuenburg in 1672 and owned over 20,000 volumes; it was open to the public since 1777.
  4. ↑ Study library was the name given to those institutions that were set up in Austrian capitals without universities; in old Austria there were five: Linz , Laibach , Salzburg, Klagenfurt , Olmütz ; In 1927 there were still three: Linz, Salzburg, Klagenfurt. Of the study libraries mentioned, only the one in Salzburg has been a real university library for 200 years . - See: Ernst Frisch: The study libraries and teacher training . From: Der Neue Weg , No. 4/1924, (4th year), ZDB -ID 533870-0 , pp. 183–186.
  5. ↑ a b Ernst Ritter von Frisch (1878-1950), from 1908 replacement for the Vienna Imperial Council Library maternity leave Karl Renner was, from 1919 to the 30s director of the Salzburg Study Library . - See: Frisch Ernst from (...) . In: Communications from the Society for Regional Studies in Salzburg . Year 1951, (Volume XCI), p. 226. - Full text online .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foltz: History of the Salzburg Libraries , p. 75.
  2. ↑ a b The history of the university library in a tabular overview . In: uni-salzburg.at , accessed on October 3, 2013.
  3. ^ The Rectors of the Benedictine University Salzburg (1622–1811) . In: Christoph Brandhuber (Red.): Ubs.sbg.ac.at/uniarchiv , Salzburg University Archives , accessed on July 9, 2012.
  4. ↑ a b c Frisch: History of the Salzburg Study Library , digital sheet 2.
  5. ^ Library history of the Salzburg Benedictine University . In: Christoph Brandhuber (Red.): Ubs.sbg.ac.at/uniarchiv , Salzburg University Archives , accessed on March 15, 2012.
  6. ^ Foltz: History of the Salzburg Libraries , p. 78.
  7. ^ Foltz: History of the Salzburg Libraries , p. 77.
  8. ↑ Federal Law Gazette II 1999/419. - Ordinance of the Federal Minister for Science and Transport on the principles for the fulfillment of tasks by the university libraries (University Library Ordinance - UBV) .
  9. ↑ Terms of use . In: ubs.sbg.ac.at , Salzburg University Library , accessed on July 9, 2012.

Coordinates: 47 ° 47 ′ 56 ″  N , 13 ° 2 ′ 29 ″  E