Braunschweig University Library

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Braunschweig University Library
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Main building of the Braunschweig University Library

founding 1748
Duration over 2,400,000 media units
Library type Central university library
place Braunschweig
ISIL DE-84 (University Library Braunschweig)
management Katrin Stump
Website http://www.ub.tu-braunschweig.de/

The University Library of Braunschweig is the university library of the Technical University of Braunschweig .

history

It was founded in 1748 as the library of the Collegium Carolinum , making it the oldest library of a technical university or technical college in Germany. Its historical core comes from the famous Blankenburg library of Duke Ludwig Rudolf . After slow growth, it was expanded and modernized in the mid-1960s to become the largest library in the region.

Duration

It supplies the Technical University of Braunschweig with literature, media and information. It is also the library of the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft (BWG)

In addition, the University Library operates the local IT system , maintains and develops the allegro database system as an additional state task. It secures and indexes the archives of the TU and is the archive library of important publishers. It serves to supply schools with literature, especially in mathematical and natural science subjects: The University Library oversees the Fit for Information Acquisition project in Lower Saxony under the patronage of the Minister of Education.

The inventory comprises around 2.4 million media, including over 1.46 million books, over 177,000 standards and microforms , over 646,000 electronic documents , 119,000 autographs and 2,160 current printed journals . In addition, more than 50,000 electronic journals are available in full text.

The Braunschweig University Library oversees the Germany-wide pharmacy information service . This offers electronic access to extensive specialist pharmaceutical literature and has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 2015 . The University Library has the largest collection of pharmaceutical literature in Germany and Central Europe. This was established as part of the special pharmacy collection, which was also funded by the DFG from 1949 to 2014 .

The Braunschweig Digital Library is the central publication server of the TU Braunschweig and is being expanded to become the repository of the Braunschweig science location. Currently (as of March 30, 2020) the Braunschweig Digital Library contains around 19,300 documents.

Senior Librarians and Directors of the Library

From its founding in 1748 to 1945, the library of the Collegium Carolinum and its successor institutions had 12 senior librarians.

Term of office Surname
1748 to 1760 Johann Wilhelm Seidler
1761 to 1764 Gottfried Leonhard Baudis the Younger
1764 to 1769 Johann Christoph Friedrich Heise
1770 to 1782 Johann Friedrich Tünzel
1782 to 1808 Johann Joachim Eschenburg
1808 to 1813 Dissolution of the Collegium Carolinum and conversion into a military academy.
1813 to 1820 Johann Joachim Eschenburg
1823 to 1863 Julius Levin Ulrich Dedekind
1863/64 to 1870 Johann Heinrich Blasius
1870 to 1880 Georg Querfurth
1880 to 1895 Athe Huisken
1895 to 1910 Friedrich Brunner
1911 to 1938 Kurt Hinrichs
1939 to 1945 Ernst Bergfeld
1946 to 1967 Fritz Meyen
1967 to 1987 Josef Daum
1987 to 2013 Dietmar Brandes
since 2014 Katrin Stump

literature

  • Dietmar Brandes (Ed.): 250 years of the Braunschweig University Library. 1748-1998. List of exhibits from the 1998 exhibition. With a foreword by Dietmar Brandes. ( tu-braunschweig.de PDF; 786 kB)
  • Fritz Meyen: The librarians of the Collegium Carolinum and the Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina in Braunschweig 1748-1945. In: Joseph König (Hrsg.): Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch. Volume 55, Braunschweig, 1974, pp. 158-174.
  • Beate Nagel: On the history of the university library of the Technical University of Braunschweig 1748−1972. Braunschweig 1988.
  • Beate Nagel (Ed.): 265 years University Library Braunschweig - 65 years Dietmar Brandes. Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Dietmar Brandes. Braunschweig 2013 ( tu-braunschweig.de ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Meyen: The librarians of the Collegium Carolinum and the Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina in Braunschweig 1748–1945. In: Joseph König (Hrsg.): Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch. Volume 55, Braunschweig, 1974, pp. 158-174.
  2. ↑ Directorate of the Braunschweig University Library