Erlangen-Nuremberg University Library

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Erlangen-Nuremberg University Library
UB FAU new building.jpg
Erlangen main library, new building

founding 1743
Duration approx. 5.4 million volumes
Library type University library
place Erlangen and Nuremberg
ISIL DE-29 (Main Library)
DE-29T (TNZB)
DE-N2 (WSZB)
DE-N32 (EZB)
Website www.ub.fau.de

The University Library Erlangen-Nürnberg forms the library system of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and is the regional library for the administrative region Middle Franconia . As a universal scientific library , it offers its users a wide range of specialist literature from all faculties and a variety of services. With around 5.4 million volumes, it is the largest library in Bavaria outside the state capital of Munich. Large parts of their media holdings are also accessible via interregional interlibrary loan. The university library is a member of the Bavarian Library Association .

Library system

WSZB Nuremberg

The Erlangen-Nürnberg library system is a two-tier library system and consists of four central libraries and 15 branch libraries, the holdings of which are distributed over a total of around 200 locations. The main library and the technical and natural science branch library (TNZB) are located in Erlangen , while the economic and social science (WSZB) and the educational science branch library (EZB) are located in Nuremberg . In this cooperative library system, most branch libraries organize the acquisition and management of their media themselves, but the media are documented together in the online catalog ( OPACplus ) of the university library .

Inventory and service

Erlangen main library, old building

The University Library Erlangen-Nürnberg has a total inventory of approx. 5.4 million media with an annual increase of around 50,000 titles. This includes 52,000 electronic journals , approx. 8,500 current printed journals and newspapers , 613,000 titles from the old stock and with 930,000 volumes one of the largest collections of dissertations in Germany .

In 2012 there were around 40,000 active users on over 1 million loans and the library gave almost 65,000 media from its holdings to interlibrary loan .

Much of the inventory is kept in magazines . They can be researched and ordered in the online catalog (OPACplus). Literature not available in Erlangen / Nuremberg can be obtained via interlibrary loan. Anyone over the age of 16 can use and borrow items from the university library and is free of charge.

450 individual and group workstations are available to users in the main library. All user areas are equipped with WLAN .

Electronic media

The university library offers a wide range of electronic media for its users, including e-books , electronic journals , as well as freely accessible, nationally licensed and chargeable databases in the database information system (DBIS). Members of the university can also use it from home for the most part ( virtual private network ).

The digital collection of the university library includes selected works from the important old holdings such as the library of Margravine Wilhelmine of Prussia , the Ricklefs collection and the Trew collection . The continuously updated collection also includes manuscripts , incunabula , family books and single-sheet prints from the 15th century . Due to its old holdings, the library is also involved in the preparation of the retrospective national bibliographies VD 17 and VD 18 .

The university library also offers reprographic services and internal university essay deliveries (FAUdok).

University publishing house and publication fund

On behalf of the university, the university library operates the university's own publishing house, FAU University Press. The aim is to publish and distribute selected publications from university members and institutions of FAU in digital and optionally in print form at low cost and quickly. The range of publications corresponds to the FAU's range of subjects.

All faculties support the free submission and publication of electronic dissertations and habilitation theses on OPUS FAU, the publication server . All dissertations and habilitations are also taken over by the German National Library and saved for long-term archiving .

There is also a publication fund from which open access article fees can be subsidized, provided that the funding requirements are met.

Historical inventory

Gumbertus Bible

The valuable historical holdings in the main library date back to the 4th century. These include the private collections of the founder of the university, Margrave Friedrich von Brandenburg-Bayreuth and his wife Wilhelmine von Prussia , as well as the holdings of the dissolved Altdorf University Library and some secularized monasteries from Upper and Middle Franconia such as the Cistercian monastery in Heilsbronn .

Particularly noteworthy is the Gumbertus Bible from the 12th century , which depicts almost the entire Old and New Testament on numerous artistically illustrated parchment pages. The hand drawings , woodcuts and copperplate engravings from the Middle Ages to the Baroque period from the former margravial Ansbach cabinet and the Luthardt graphic collection, which mainly dates from the 19th century, are of internationally recognized quality . It also includes medals and coins from all historical epochs , graphic portraits , single-sheet prints, an important collection of personal documents and school programs as well as numerous oil paintings .

The Educational Science Branch Library (EZB) has a large collection of historical textbooks and school books . Many come from the property of Johannes Guthmann, who was head of the library in the 1950s.

Since the city ​​of Erlangen was taken without a fight during the Second World War , the university library suffered no war damage and, unlike many other German libraries, was able to preserve all of its old holdings .

Special collection areas

On behalf of the German Research Foundation (DFG) , the Erlangen-Nuremberg University Library was responsible for the special collections of philosophy and educational research from 1949 to 2013 . The extensive inventory is based on numerous historical publications since the 16th century. The special collection area philosophy also included the maintenance of the virtual library philosophy. The university library has been a partner in the FID Educational Science and Educational Research since the beginning of 2015 .

Regional order

The library has had the right to deposit copies for Middle Franconia since 1840 and is today the regional library for this administrative district, with annual access of around 2,400 mandatory items. The aim of this compulsory fee is to give the public access to every publication that has appeared in Middle Franconia and to provide as complete evidence as possible of the cultural creation of this region .

history

Friedrich III. Brandenburg-Bayreuth state portrait
Wilhelmine of Prussia State Portrait

The University Library Erlangen-Nuremberg was founded in 1743 together with the Friedrich-Alexander-University by Margrave Friedrich von Brandenburg-Bayreuth in Erlangen and at that time only had one room in the former Knight Academy . A basic collection was made up of the house library of the margravial founders and the library of the first chancellor of the university , Daniel de Superville .

In 1805 around 13,000 volumes from the palace libraries in Ansbach and Schwaningen were brought to Erlangen. In 1818 King Maximilian Joseph decreed that the libraries of the University of Altdorf, which was dissolved in 1809 , should be transferred to Erlangen. This doubled the holdings of the university library to around 80,000 volumes. First, the Altdorf holdings were moved to the Red House on Schlossplatz (no longer available today); A solution to the problem of space became apparent after 1817, when after the death of Margravine Sophie Caroline, the Erlangen castle became the property of the university. From 1825 the entire inventory of the library was brought together there until the beginning of the 20th century even this space was exhausted and in 1913 a new building was built on the property between Universitätsstrasse and Unterer Karlstrasse.

The library building was built according to the most modern construction principles of the time, with the division into administration wing and storage block. In the cellar of the magazine, the Erlangen writer Ernst Penzoldt immortalized himself during his student days with several wall paintings depicting the various faculties. Today only three of these works remain. The building has remained largely unchanged since 1913, only in the 1960s a renovation was carried out due to serious structural defects and a false ceiling was installed in the two-storey general reading room . The building and inventory have been under monument protection since 1972 .

In 1974 a new building was built directly opposite, to which the usage area moved, while the management, administration, media processing, university writing department and the department of manuscripts, old prints and the graphic collection can now be found in the old university library .

In the 1960s and 1970s, the library grew strongly, than after the incorporation of the Nuremberg School of Economics and Social Sciences and the College of Education Nuremberg whose libraries have been allocated and after the establishment of the Faculty of Engineering of the University Library. In addition, the individual institute libraries were combined in 15 sub-libraries and also subordinated to the university library. Today the library offers its services to university members and other interested users at almost 200 locations in Erlangen and Nuremberg.

literature

Web links

Commons : University Library Erlangen-Nürnberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b University Library Erlangen-Nürnberg: Annual Report 1990 (online from 2006) ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ub.uni-erlangen.de
  2. ↑ Digital collection of the university library
  3. ^ FAU University Press
  4. ↑ OPUS FAU
  5. ↑ Open Access Publication Fund. Eligibility requirements

Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 48 ″  N , 11 ° 0 ′ 24 ″  E