"Lucian Blaga" University Library
The Biblioteca Centrală Universitară "Lucian Blaga" ( German Central University Library , Hungarian Központi Egyetemi Könyvtár ) is the library of the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca ( Klausenburg ) in Transylvania , Romania .
In 1990 the library was also given the name "Lucian Blaga" - the name of the Romanian poet and philosopher - and with a holdings of over 3,660,000 media (2011), it is the second largest library in Romania after the Romanian National Library in Bucharest .
history
The library was founded in 1872 at the same time as today's Babeş Bolyai University with an initial collection of around 18,000 volumes. Until 1874, the Transylvanian Museum was affiliated with the University Library in Cluj, whose library was founded in 1859 by the Transylvanian Museum Association and donations from the bishops Andrei Șaguna and Alexandru Sterca-Șuluțiu , as well as the Counts József Kemény and Imre Mikó .
Until 1909 the library was housed in the main building of the university. Between 1906 and 1908, today's main building of the Central University Library was built in a historicist style according to plans by the Budapest architects Kálmán Giergl and Flóris Korb .
In 1927 the library was named Biblioteca Centrală Universitară "Ferdinand I" , named after Ferdinand I the Romanian king. In 1948 the previously independent library of the Transylvanian Museum was integrated into the University Library in Cluj-Napoca. With the support of numerous Romanian research organizations (including the library of the Romanian Academy ), the library holdings quadrupled from around 580,000 media to over 2,000,000 media from the late 1930s to the late 1940s. 1959 saw the founding of today's Babes Bolyai University .
Collections
In 2011 the collections of the Central University Library “Lucian Blaga” and its network of over 30 specialist libraries had over 3,660,000 items.
General collections
Specialized libraries
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Special libraries
- Biblioteca Americană
- Biblioteca Germana
- Biblioteca Austria
- Biblioteca de Studii Iudaice
Special collections
The special collections of the central university library hold u. a. Holdings from the collections of the former Transylvanian Museum, such as old incunabula , maps, manuscripts and rare books on the history of Transylvania.
literature
- Meda-Diana Hotea, Mária Kovács, Emilia-Mariana Soporan: Catalogul cărţii rare din colecţiile Bibliotecii Centrale Universitare "Lucian Blaga" (sec. XVI - XVIII) . Ed. Argonaut, Cluj-Napoca 2007, ISBN 978-973-109-073-3 (Romanian).
- Christian Rother: Transylvania and book printing in the 16th century: with a bibliography "Transylvania and book printing" , Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2002
- Horst Fassel : German regional literature in the Banat and in Transylvania in the multi-ethnic area , Klausenburger Universitätsverlag, Cluj-Napoca, 2002
- Ferenc Kégli: Hungarian-language prints in Romania 1919-1940. The history of the publication of the two-volume bibliography by István Monoki , National Széchenyi Library , Budapest, 1997
- Andrei Veress: Biblioteca centrală universitară, Cluj , Biblioteca centrală universitară, Cluj-Napoca, 1965
Individual evidence
- ↑ Activitatea bibliotecilor în anul 2011 , at bcucluj.ro ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF, accessed January 19, 2013 (Romanian)
Web links
- Library homepage
- Library digital catalog
- Klausenburg, university library in the manuscript census of the handwritten tradition of German-language texts from the Middle Ages
Coordinates: 46 ° 46 ′ 1 ″ N , 23 ° 35 ′ 6 ″ E