University Library Amsterdam
| University Library Amsterdam | |
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 The modern main building of the Amsterdam University Library on Koningsplein
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| founding | 1578 |
| Duration | approx. 4,000,000 |
| Library type | University library |
| place | Singel , Amsterdam |
| management | Maria Heijne |
| Website | http://uba.uva.nl |
The University Library Amsterdam ( Dutch : Universiteitsbibliotheek van Amsterdam or Bibliotheek van de Universiteit van Amsterdam ), UBA for short , is the central library of the University of Amsterdam . It also includes various faculty libraries as well as the Medical Library of the Academic Medical Center (AMC) and is spread over several locations in the city.
history
The beginnings of the library go back to the year 1578, when, after the overthrow of the Spanish Catholic city government called the Alteratie of Amsterdam , books and manuscripts of the Roman Catholic institutions in Amsterdam were brought together in a public library accessible to everyone. This city library was first housed in the New Church and in 1632, after the construction of the Athenaeum Illustre , the predecessor of today's University of Amsterdam , in the attic of the Agnietenkapelle. It was not until 1877 that the Athenaeum was elevated to a university and the city library to a university library. In the 19th century, the collections became so extensive and the Agnietenkapelle so dilapidated that the books had to be housed in several other places until they moved into the building on Singel 421, which had previously housed the archers. During the renovation work in 1968, many parts of the building from the 16th century were uncovered, confirming that the library is probably located in one of the oldest buildings in the city with a preserved late medieval mantelpiece. The buildings at Handboogstraat 16 and 18 were occupied in 1919 and during the Second World War, with the express consent of Queen Wilhelmina, who emigrated to London, the building at Singel 423 with the facade designed by Hendrick de Keyser in 1609 , which originally served as the royal stables. Today's main building at Singel 425 was designed in the 1960s by the architect J. Leupen and built on the site on which the house of the crossbowmen and later the Roman Catholic Church of St. Catherine, which had been demolished in 1939, originally stood. This building is also referred to as the ugliest building in Amsterdam and is considered a model of the “coffee machine architecture”. The Special Collections department is located on the Alter Turfmarkt in a building designed by Philip Vingboons in 1642, which later housed the St. Bernhard Foundation from 1843–43. The restoration of the building began in 2004 and was officially inaugurated by Queen Beatrix in 2007 . In 2008 the collections of the Media Studies, Theater Studies and Philosophy departments moved from the Nieuwen Doelenstraat to the Academic Media Center near the main university building on Singel. The collections from the Neue Doelenstraat are stored on a barge on the water.
literature
- Koen Kleijn: Schutters en students: de geschiedenis van de Universiteitsbibliotheek . Stadsuitgeverij Amsterdam, 1992. ISBN 90-5366-051-8
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Individual evidence
- ↑ According to Diodorus , this was the heading above the ancient library of Alexandria