Bayreuth University Library

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Bayreuth University Library
Bayreuth University Library

Central Library

founding 1973
Duration approx. 2.3 million media units
Library type University library
place Bayreuth , Bavaria , Germany
ISIL DE-703
Website www.ub.uni-bayreuth.de

The University Library of Bayreuth is a service facility of the University of Bayreuth , one of the young universities in Germany. Its main task is to provide literature and information to scientists and students at the local university. However, it is also available to interested parties and students aged 16 and over from the region. The university library is a member of the Bavarian Library Association . With 2.3 million media, it is one of the largest libraries in Bavaria .

history

After the university was founded in 1972, construction of the university library began in 1973. Initially, the central library was located in the city center, in today's IWALEWA building on Münzgasse. In 1975 she moved to the former factory of the Zappe curtain factory on Justus-Liebig-Strasse. In the autumn of 1975, the library of the 2nd Bayreuth Department of Education at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg at Geschwister-Scholl-Platz was affiliated as a branch library for Educational Sciences (later: Cultural Studies).

In 1987 the central library was able to move into the new building on the university campus in the south-east of the city. In 2001 it received an extension for the Faculty of Cultural Studies, which until then had been located on Geschwister-Scholl-Platz. The cultural studies branch library was thus integrated into the central library. Alternative magazines exist at Geschwister-Scholl-Platz (additional GSP magazine) and, since 2010, in the building of the BayCEER research facility on Dr.-Hans-Frisch-Straße.

Four other branch libraries were given their domicile before the central library on the university campus. They have since been housed in the corresponding faculty buildings. With the establishment of the Faculty for Applied Natural Sciences, the mathematics / physics branch library received a corresponding extension in 1998. An extension for the Law and Economics branch library was moved into in 2011.

Due to an acute need for renovation with costs in the millions, the university management decided to largely give up the location on Geschwister-Scholl-Platz (GSP). As a result, the library on Geschwister-Scholl-Platz was closed on May 31, 2017.

construction

The University Library of Bayreuth is a single-layer library system . The central library and branch libraries form an organizational unit with central management despite the spatial separation. The central library is responsible for media acquisition and processing. It also houses special collections, a large part of the stored holdings and, as an integral part, the humanities branch library. The individual branch libraries offer special literature for individual scientific subjects and are usually located in close proximity to the other spatial facilities of the associated department. The book and media collections there as well as the open access holdings of the central library are freely accessible according to the Regensburg network classification .

The following facilities are available to users:

  • Central library with integrated humanities library (ZB, Campus, since 1987)
    Book inventory: 1,119,356 volumes (as of 2016)
  • Law and Economics
    Branch Library (TB RW, Campus, since 1980) Book inventory: 199,890 volumes (as of 2016)
  • Biology / Chemistry
    Branch Library (TB NW I, Campus, since 1981) Book inventory: 47,461 volumes (as of 2016)
  • Mathematics / Physics / Computer Science / Engineering
    Library (TB NW II, Campus, since 1984) Book inventory: 163,034 volumes (as of 2016)
  • Geosciences
    Branch Library (TB GEO, Campus, since 1978) Book inventory: 61,646 volumes (as of 2016)
  • Branch Library Music Theater , Schloss Thurnau (FIMT, since 1977)
    book collection: 27,225 volumes (as of 2016)
  • Additional magazine Geschwister-Scholl-Platz (GSP, since 2001) and additional magazine Bayceer (Dr.-Hans-Frisch-Straße, since 2010)
    Book inventory: 201,124 volumes (as of 2016)

Duration

The inventory contains a total of around 2.3 million media units and 1,804 current print magazines. This also includes a wide range of electronic media, such as B. access to 33,554 licensed scientific online journals (e-journals) as well as to around 445 licensed databases. (As of December 2016)

Special collections

After the special collection of the Frankfurt / Main University Library, the library has the second largest Africa-related book and media inventory in Germany. The branch library for music theater has a collection of literature and media on the subject of "music theater". The library also contains the following collections of books that are important in terms of regional history:

literature

  • Butz, Vera; Pelka, Nina; Brugbauer, Ralf: The University Library: Books and more for Bayreuth. In: Leible, Stefan (Ed.): Thinking new ways: 40 years University of Bayreuth. - Bayreuth: Univ. Bayreuth, 2015. - pp. 148-151
  • The old library of the Christian-Ernestinum high school. - Bayreuth, 2004
  • Kiel, Rainer-Maria: University Library - A user-oriented service company. In: Spectrum of the University of Bayreuth, (2003) 3, pp. 12–21 PDF
  • Martens, Frank: The extension of the applied natural sciences / mathematics / physics branch library at the University of Bayreuth. In: Bibliotheksforum Bayern, 27 (1998) 3, pp. 320-330
  • Kiel, Rainer-Maria: The library of the Leers'schen orphanage: Bayreuth's oldest children's and youth library. In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia, 77 (1997), pp. 429–448
  • The library of the Historical Association for Upper Franconia. - Bayreuth, 1994
  • Rehm, Harald: The law and economics branch library of the Bayreuth University Library. In: Bibliotheksforum Bayern, 21 (1993), 2, pp. 108-114
  • Franke, Rainer: The music collection of the Research Institute for Music Theater of the University of Bayreuth at Thurnau Castle. In: Bibliotheksforum Bayern, 20 (1992), 2 pp. 277–280
  • University of Bayreuth, university library. - Bayreuth, 1988
  • Kiel, Rainer-Maria: The royal Bavarian 6th Chevaulegersregiment and its library. In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia, 67 (1987), pp. 313–338
  • Luther, Wolfgang: The central library of the University of Bayreuth. In: Bibliotheksforum Bayern, 15 (1987), 3, pp. 203-215
  • Wickert, Konrad: The Bayreuth University Library 1973-1987. In: Bibliotheksforum Bayern, 15 (1987), 3, pp. 216-226
  • Kiel, Rainer-Maria: History of the office library. - Bayreuth, 1985
  • From the treasures of the chancellery library. - Bayreuth, 1985
  • Wickert, Konrad: Bayreuth University Library. In: Bibliotheksforum Bayern, 8 (1980), 8, pp. 99–112
  • Africa: Books from and about black Africa from the holdings of the library of the University of Bayreuth, 1980
  • Klassen, Rainer: History of the Bayreuth Pedagogical Library (1895-1977). - Bavarian Library Forum 6 (1978), 1, pp. 18-28
  • Report on the structure of the university library. - Bayreuth, 1977

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Additional GSP magazine. (No longer available online.) University of Bayreuth, May 31, 2017, archived from the original on August 2, 2017 ; accessed on August 2, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ub.uni-bayreuth.de
  2. ↑ Numbers & facts about Bayreuth University Library. University of Bayreuth, December 31, 2016, accessed on August 2, 2017 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 55 ′ 44 "  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 9"  E