Bielefeld University Library
| Bielefeld University Library | |
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 Bielefeld University / University Library
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| founding | 1967 |
| Duration | 2.2 million volumes |
| Library type | University library |
| place | Bielefeld |
| ISIL | DE-361 |
| management | Barbara Knorn |
| Website | http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/ |
The Bielefeld University Library ( UB Bielefeld ), founded in 1967, is a central facility of Bielefeld University . It is located on the 1st floor of the main university building as well as in building X. It is divided into a total of 22 departmental libraries, which are freely accessible and partly interconnected. The library has a stock of over 2.2 million printed books and magazines as well as 470,000 digital materials ( e-books , e-journals ).
overview
With over two million books and journals and a constantly growing range of scientifically relevant electronic full texts , the Bielefeld University Library is not only the central university library for Bielefeld University , which was founded in 1969 , but also one of the most important universal libraries for the entire Ostwestfalen-Lippe region .
Around 95% of all books and magazines are freely accessible according to subject area in the library's reading rooms , which extend over almost the entire first floor of the university building. With opening times until 1:00 a.m. during the week and 10:00 p.m. on the weekends (a total of 111 hours per week) and 353 opening days per year, it is open longer than average (compared to other German libraries).
The main task of the library is to provide literature and information to members of the University of Bielefeld. This service can also be used by the general public, companies, authorities, clinics and schools throughout the region.
An important task is imparting information skills through regular training courses (catalog and library use, literature and information research on the Internet, literature management, database introductions and library tours). The library sees a focus of work in digital information services.
history
The library was founded in 1967 and began its work on April 1, 1968 in Rheda Castle , about 30 kilometers southwest of Bielefeld. The development work was most recently carried out simultaneously at 48 locations between Bielefeld and Münster. In the 1976 summer semester, the library moved into its newly built main building of the university.
Right from the start, the library was designed as a single-layer library system with extensive open access , without independent branch or institute libraries . All of the library's holdings are located under one roof in the university building. The individual specialist libraries are interconnected and freely accessible.
From the beginning, the use of electronic data processing was of great importance. In 1977, Germany's first online cataloging system (IBAS) was used. In 1988 the first German university library catalog was published on CD-ROM .
The library developed the document delivery system JASON (1993) and the digital library NRW (1999).
In 2014, the history, sociology, philosophy, theology, art, geosciences and women's and gender studies department moved to Building X, a new building at Bielefeld University.
The library sees itself as one of the pioneers for the introduction of Open Access at German universities.
The directors of the Bielefeld University Library since 1968
- Harro Heim (1968–1984)
- Karl-Wilhelm Neubauer (1985-2002)
- Norbert Lossau (2002-2006)
- Michael Höppner (2006–2012)
- Barbara Knorn (provisional since June 1, 2015, January 1, 2013 - May 31, 2015)
Special services
A university publication server has been in operation since 2003 . From 2003 to 2011 based on the OPUS software under the name BieSOn, since August 2011 under the name PUB Theses based on the LUUR (Lund University Universal Repository software) system.
In 2004, the economics / mathematics library was recreated as a 3D world (virtual tour) that could be entered with an avatar, and an interactive tutorial for online research was created. In the same year the scientific search engine BASE was launched , with which several million scientific full texts can be searched.
Since 2006, the library has been participating in the EU project DRIVER ( Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research ) to network scientific publication repositories from universities and research institutions in Europe (project period 2006–2009). In the same year, the Stud.IP e-learning platform was introduced.
In 2007 the service catalog Information.plus! published, which is intended to give the library user an overview of the range of services offered by the library.
In 2008, the eScholarship Repository developed two years earlier went into production under the name BiPrints. Like BieSOn, Biprints was operated on the basis of OPUS and offers access to the scientific knowledge acquired through research at Bielefeld University and contains several thousand quality-checked publications in full text, e.g. B. Texts that have been peer-reviewed . This system was replaced in August 2011 by PUB OA (Open Access Publications at Bielefeld University).
In 2009 the library catalog was migrated on the basis of search engine technology and using Web 2.0 technologies in cooperation with the Heidelberg University Library . In addition to proof of the printed inventory, the catalog also offers direct access to 400,000 online publications ( e-books , electronic journals, etc.).
In November 2010 the PUB publication management system (publications at Bielefeld University) went online based on the LUUR (Lund University Universal Repository software) system developed at Lund University and Ghent University. PUB enables the administration of personal publication lists and the automatic integration of publication lists into the personal website of the university member. It replaced the university's FoDa research database as the central publication management system at Bielefeld University.
The library has been using the EBSCO Discovery Service in the library catalog since 2013 , which has since been called Catalog. plus! is offered.
The University Library organized the International Bielefeld Conference , which took place regularly until 2010 and offers decision-makers from libraries in Europe and around the world a forum for strategy discussions.
statistical data
- Expenditures for literary acquisition: 3,258,451 euros
- Holdings: 2,174,592 volumes
- Journals: 3,700 printed journals (subscriptions), 21,000 licensed electronic journals
- Active users: 33,255
- User workplaces: 2,050
- PC workstations: 165
- Total number of loans: 1,391,626 per year
- Opening hours: 111 per week (355 days a year)
- Library visits: 1,675,000 per year
Swell:
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press releases: Bielefeld University as a pioneer for "Open Access" at German universities (No. 114/2005)
- ^ UB Bielefeld Blog: Bielefeld University library with new management
- ↑ Bielefeld University Library blog: Katalog.plus! replaces the library catalog
- ↑ German library statistics ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 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.
- ^ The Bielefeld University Library in numbers
literature
- Harro Heim: The Bielefeld University Library 1968–1984: Structure and development . Saur, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-598-20595-3 .
- Günther Pflug (Ed.): The new library: Festschrift for Harro Heim for his 65th birthday . Saur, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-598-10529-0 .
- Rolf Fuhlrott (Ed.): New library buildings in the Federal Republic of Germany: 1968–1983 . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-465-01567-3 .
Web links
Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 15 ″ N , 8 ° 29 ′ 37 ″ E