University Library Duisburg-Essen
| University Library Duisburg-Essen | |
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 Logo of the Duisburg-Essen University Library
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| founding | 2003 |
| Duration | approx.2,400,000 volumes |
| Library type | University library |
| place | Duisburg ; eat |
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DE-464 (Duisburg Campus) DE-465 (Essen Campus) DE-465M (Medical Library) |
| Website | http://www.uni-duisburg-essen.de/ub/ |
The University Library Duisburg-Essen is a central operating unit of the University of Duisburg-Essen . In cooperation with the Center for Information and Media Services (ZIM) , it provides information, communication and media (IKM) services for the university.
fusion
In connection with the establishment of the University of Duisburg-Essen through the merger of the previous universities of Duisburg and Essen in 2003, the two university libraries were merged to form the University Library of Duisburg-Essen. The merging of two previously independent library systems at different locations meant a challenge for the new library in many ways. Among other things, uniform usage regulations had to be drawn up, business processes had to be coordinated, a uniform personnel structure had to be developed across locations and catalogs and numerous services had to be offered together. It was an advantage in this context that both libraries had set up their holdings according to the North Rhine-Westphalian University Library Systematics (GHBS) from the start and had already converted their library software to the ALEPH local system before the merger. After the necessary process coordination and test runs, the data from the two local systems could be merged at the turn of the year 2005/06 and the University Library could offer its users a joint OPAC at the beginning of 2006 . The old library sigils (464 for Duisburg and 465 for Essen) are still used for interlibrary loan . In 2006/07, the library was one of the first institutions of the merged university to undergo an evaluation process as part of quality assurance , which included a customer survey as well as an assessment by external peers .
Specialized libraries
The two libraries were designed as single-layer library systems from the start, but they have placed their holdings in separate specialist libraries.
The Duisburg-Essen University Library is currently divided into the following specialist libraries:
- BA (focus on electrical engineering, applied materials technology) - Duisburg campus
- GW / GSW (focus on humanities and social sciences, art, language and economics) - Essen campus
- LK (focus on humanities, social and economic sciences, mathematics and computer science) - Duisburg campus
- MC (focus on natural sciences, mechanical engineering) - Duisburg campus
- Medicine - Clinic, Essen-Rüttenscheid
- MNT (focus on mathematics, natural sciences, technology) - Essen campus
There is also a closed magazine in the ST university area in Duisburg-Ruhrort. There is also a cooperation with the library of the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) and the Niederrhein Library in Duisburg, whose holdings are recorded as external in the OPAC. Since 2009, the holdings of the Institute for Cultural Studies (KWI) have been made accessible in the same way .
Since the merger, the specialist libraries and the spatial distribution of the holdings have been based on the locations of the departments, even if large-scale relocations of holdings have not yet taken place and are not planned. Instead, the University Library offers an electronic article delivery service for users at the other location and, since the 2007/08 winter semester, also a campus delivery service (CaLD) for books.
The University Library also has the Duisburg-Essen University Archive as a separate department.
Virtual campus
The electronic offers can now be used across campuses with a few exceptions due to licensing or technical requirements. In addition to electronic journals and databases, which are usually offered via consortium solutions, the DuEPublico document server (Duisburg-Essen Publications online), in which university members can store electronic publications, plays an important role . It is also used by the library to look after the electronic course reserve and to set up the university bibliography . The application is also used as open source at other universities and is further developed in the MyCoRe project. DuEPublico is also one of the partners in the DFG project "System Convergence in Education, Research and Science - The Digital Library as a Key Technology for Cooperative Knowledge Organization". A great deal of importance is attached to information literacy, which is evident not only from the training courses offered by the University Library, which are partially integrated into the course catalog, but also from the e-competence agency operated in cooperation with the ZIM.
Local peculiarities
The library hall in the specialist library GW / GSW is used for various lecture events and conferences, also beyond the framework of the library. The transdisciplinary series of events “Die kleine Form” has been taking place there for several years. Local special stocks are u. a. the East Asian Studies in Duisburg and children's literature and the Turkish Studies in Essen. The Medical Library has a certain special status as the library of the university hospital , which can look back on a longer history than the Essen University and was previously assigned to the Ruhr University Bochum .
Statistical
The university library has a collection of around 2,414,000 volumes. It currently has around 1,700 print journals and offers over 36,000 electronic journals. It has 38,830 active users, including 9,355 external users. The number of annual loans (with renewals) in the overall system is 1,927,736. According to the plan, it has 128.12 positions. (The information is based on the German library statistics , reporting year 2017.)
Self-image
In its mission statement , the University Library describes itself as a “knowledge portal as well as a place of learning and work for studies, teaching and research”. It sees itself as a "service center" and "partner in the network of information facilities". With the aforementioned evaluation procedure, the library supports the change processes within the university. Mission statement debate, target and performance agreements with the university management, the development of integrated business processes as well as extensive measures for personnel development are understood as important steps on the way to a modern library.
Web links
- www.uni-duisburg-essen.de Duisburg-Essen University Library (official website)
- Festschrift 25 years of Essen University Library (html version)
- Current status : the merged library (PDF document, 4.34 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Organizational regulation for the area of information, communication and media from March 23, 2009 (PDF file; 25 kB)
- ↑ Cf. Albert Bilo: Target group-oriented, central, future-proof - the merged University Library Duisburg-Essen as a model of change management , In: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 63 (2016), no. 1, pp. 13-23
- ↑ Brief information on the mistletoe project ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2008 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.
- ↑ Mission statement of the Duisburg-Essen University Library ( memento of the original from November 28, 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. (PDF file; 57 kB)
