Kiel University Library
| Kiel University Library | |
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 Main entrance of the new building from 2001
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| founding | 1665 |
| Library type | University library |
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Kiel Germany
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| Visitor address | Leibnizstrasse 9 (main department) |
| ISIL | DE-8 (Kiel University Library, Central Library) |
| management | Kerstin Helmkamp |
| Website | www.ub.uni-kiel.de |
The Kiel University Library , with the central library and 43 specialist libraries, is the university library and a central facility of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel .
It is the largest library in Schleswig-Holstein and has a total inventory of around 4.58 million volumes ( 2016 ). A good half of these (around 2.48 million volumes) are in the departments of the central library. In addition, the university library currently holds 6,115 printed journals and 35,332 electronic journals.
The library was founded in 1665 together with the University of Kiel , with the abbey library of the Bordesholm monastery being used as the foundation . For this reason, too, there are medieval manuscripts and old prints in the Kiel University Library.
The current director of the library is Kerstin Helmkamp.
history
After the university library was founded in 1665, it received the manuscripts and prints of the prince's high school, which was established around 1550 in the Augustinian canons' monastery in Bordesholm and abandoned in favor of the university in 1665, as a basis by a decree of the Gottorf Duke Christian Albrecht , which still make up the oldest collection. At the end of the 18th century it was already one of the most important libraries in Germany. In the middle of the 19th century the library was housed in Kiel Castle . The long-time librarian Henning Ratjen arranged for the university library to be relocated from the upper to the lower rooms of the castle in 1834 and rearranged the library in 1838 after the fire in the castle and the castle chapel.
In 1884, under the direction of Emil Steffenhagen , the university library received a library building built purely using the magazine system for the first time , which was expanded in 1907. However, this was destroyed during the Second World War, with about half of the approximately 500,000 volumes being lost. After the war, the university, with the exception of the university hospital, was relocated to the premises on Olshausenstrasse. In 1966 the university library was given a new building on the Westring, while the medical department remained in the old university library. The new building soon proved to be too small, so that in 1987 a branch for the natural science department was founded at Heinrich-Hecht-Platz.
In 2001, a new building was put into operation on Leibnizstrasse, and the natural science department was able to be merged with the other departments. Since then, in addition to the main building in Leibnizstraße, there has also been the medical department for the university clinic, which was moved from the old location in Brunswiker Straße to modernized and larger rooms in Breite Weg in 2012, and the engineering department in the Technical Faculty building on the east bank in the Kaiserstrasse. In the building at the Westring there is only part of the warehouse stock today. The building is also used by the Institute for Social Sciences as a seminar and office building.
At the end of the 19th century, specialist libraries were set up with the establishment of seminars and institutes. In 1973, the University Library was created as a central facility through the State University Act. This made the specialist libraries part of the university library. Before that, they were under the administration of the seminars and institutes.
location
The main department of the central library is located at Leibnizstraße 9 opposite the Physics Center in the northern part of the campus. The botanical garden and a cafeteria are in the vicinity .
The former library building is located on the Westring opposite the Audimax . Part of the closed magazine is still located there today. The building now houses the CAU's International Center for student advice for foreign students. It also serves as a seminar and office building for the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law, the Institute for Social Sciences and the Institute for Security Policy. The Schleswig-Holstein University Society has its headquarters there.
The medical department has been located at Breiten Weg 10 in the western area of the university hospital since 2012. Before the Second World War, the entire library inventory was in the former building on Brunswiker Strasse; The CAU's Medical and Pharmaceutical History Collection is still located in this building.
The engineering department is located at Kaiserstraße 2 on the site of the technical faculty on the east bank of the fjord. The HDW shipyard is located nearby .
New building
In 2001 the new building in Leibnizstrasse was completed. In the entrance area there is a spacious entrance hall from which three segments radiate off. The two-story building was built by the construction company Bilfinger Berger . A light installation by the artist Elisabeth Arlt is located above the main entrance. The words "Some shine when you read them" comes from the novel Les Nourritures terrestres (1897) by André Gide .
Lending system
The holdings of the Central Library can be borrowed, with the exception of a few reference holdings. Most of the books are in the open stacks or in the open magazine. These can be borrowed for four weeks, journal volumes for two weeks. Part of the inventory is in the closed magazine. These must be ordered and can usually be picked up the next day. Borrowed books can be noted and thus reserved. Books published before 1900 can only be used in the reading room. Books, copies and other media can also be ordered via interlibrary loan from the GBV .
All students and employees of universities and technical colleges in Schleswig-Holstein are authorized to borrow, except in the engineering department of the central library, where only students and employees of the CAU can borrow. In addition, all citizens residing in Schleswig-Holstein and trainee lawyers can borrow books for an annual fee.
The specialist libraries are mostly reference libraries, which means that books cannot be borrowed or can only be borrowed over the weekend. Exam candidates are exempt from loan restrictions in some specialist libraries.
particularities
Manuscripts and incunabula (selection)
Due to the close connection between Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark and the other Scandinavian countries, a large stock of Nordic literature was created at an early stage. This was promoted in the 18th century by, among other things, duplicates from the royal library in Copenhagen.
From 1910 acquisition agreements were made with other Prussian university libraries, and Kiel was assigned a clearly defined collecting task with the area of Nordic philology.
Around half of the volumes, around 250,000, were lost during the Second World War. However, through contacts with libraries in Scandinavia, the replacement was made easier.
The Kiel University Library was entrusted with the maintenance of area 7.22 (Scandinavia) as part of the special collection area plan of the German Research Foundation . In 1963 Sweden was added back to the collection plan after it had been assigned to the SUB Hamburg in 1949. The Scandinavian special collection area includes literature from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland. Works from different subject areas are collected, including politics, linguistics, folklore, history and anthropogeography.
Specialized information service Northern Europe
At the beginning of 2016, the Specialized Information Service Northern Europe (FID) replaced the previous special collection area Scandinavia (SSG) at the University Library in Kiel as part of the nationwide funding program Specialized Information Services for Science of the German Research Foundation (DFG). The FID Northern Europe collects scientifically relevant literature on Denmark, Norway (with Spitzbergen), Sweden, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Finland (via the collection focus of the Göttingen State and University Library). The research portal of the FID is the Virtual Library Northern Europe vifanord.
Vifanord
Together with the Greifswald University Library and the Goettingen State and University Library , the Kiel University Library operates the Vifanord virtual specialist library . Vifanord bundles literature and research results from the Scandinavian countries and the Baltic Sea region.
Central Library
- Main department of the university library
- Medical Department of the University Library
- Engineering department of the central library
Specialized libraries
Faculty of Theology
- Theology specialist library
Faculty of Law
- Specialized library at the legal seminar
- Specialized library at the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law
- Specialized library at the Institute for Sanctions Law and Criminology
- Specialized library at the Institute for Eastern European Law
- Specialized library at the Institute for Business and Tax Law, including Business Criminal Law
- Specialized library at the Institute for European and International Private and Procedural Law
The Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences
- Specialized library for economics
- Specialized library for social sciences
Medical school
- Anatomy / Biochemistry Library
- Specialized library at the Physiological Institute
- Medical library on the Breite Weg
Philosophical Faculty
- Historical sciences
- Specialized library at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory
- Specialized history library
- Specialized library at the Institute for Classical Antiquity
- Specialized library at the seminar for European ethnology / folklore
- Modern language and literary studies
- Specialized library at the seminar for general and comparative linguistics
- Specialized library at the Institute for Phonetics and Digital Speech Processing
- Specialized library at the English seminar
- German Studies Library (Language / Literature / Media)
- Specialized library at the Nordic Institute
- Specialized library at the Romance seminar
- Specialized library at the Institute for Slavic Studies
- Specialized library at the Philosophical Seminar
- Specialized library at the Art History Institute
- Specialized library at the Kunsthalle
- Specialized library at the Musicological Institute
- Specialized library at the Department of Oriental Studies
- Specialized library at the Institute for Psychology
- Specialized library for education
- Specialized library at the Institute for Sport and Sport Science
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
- Specialized library for mathematics / computer science / computer center
- Physics Center specialist library
- Specialized library at the institutes for inorganic and organic chemistry
- Specialized library at the Institute for Geosciences
- Specialized library at the Institute for Physical Chemistry
- Specialized library at the Pharmaceutical Institute, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Biology
- Specialized library at the Pharmaceutical Institute, Dept. Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Dept. Pharmaceutical Technology
- Zoological Museum
- Specialized library at the Institute of Geography
- Specialized library at the Institute for Polar Ecology
- Ethnological collection
Faculty of Agriculture and Nutrition
- Specialized library at the Institute for Human Nutrition and Food Science
- Specialized library at the Institute for Agricultural Process Engineering
- Specialized library at the Institute for Plant Production and Plant Breeding
- Specialized library at the Institute for Plant Nutrition and Soil Science
- Specialized library at the Institute for Phytopathology
- Specialized library at the Institute for Animal Nutrition and Metabolic Physiology
- Specialist library at the Institute for Animal Breeding and Husbandry
Technical Faculty
- Engineering department of the central library (also the engineering library at the technical faculty)
Web links
- Kiel University Library
- Site plan of the university (PDF; 482 kB)
- webis special collection area Scandinavia
Coordinates: 54 ° 20 ′ 48 ″ N , 10 ° 6 ′ 40 ″ E