Linz University Library
| Linz University Library | |
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| founding | 1965 |
| Duration | 1.2 million |
| Library type | University library |
| place | Linz , Austria |
| ISIL | AT-UBL-HB |
| operator | Johannes Kepler University Linz |
| Website | www.ubl.jku.at |
The Linz University Library (UB Linz or UBL) is the largest academic library in Upper Austria . It is part of the Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU) and consists of the main library, the Juridicum library (faculty library for law) as well as several specialist libraries and collections at institutes, but is also open to the public. Media corresponding to the law, social and economic sciences, medicine, technology and natural sciences faculties are acquired and are largely made available to the public.
History
In April 1965, one and a half years before lectures at the newly founded University of Social and Economic Sciences, work began in the library. The basis of the new library was the scientific part of the book inventory of the Linz America House ("Kennedy Library"), which had been closed shortly before.
In the fall of 1967 the library was temporarily housed on the upper floor of the canteen building. The reading room offered space for 100 readers.
In May 1984 the new library building planned by the Perotti / Eisendle / Treml architects was opened. It houses around 450,000 volumes, the majority of which are freely accessible to users, and offers 260 workstations.
When moving into the new building, the automated borrowing system (GRIBS system) was introduced. It was replaced by the ALEPH 500 in spring 1999 . Editing of monographs was carried out with BIBOS from 1991 to 1998 , and ALEPH 500 was in operation from January 1999. From 2000 onwards, journal management was supported by Aleph; interlibrary loan followed in 2003 as the last component. At the beginning of 2018, ALEPH was replaced by the ALMA library system.
current offer
Since it was founded in 1965, the JKU (UB) library has grown to over 1.25 million books and magazines. In addition, there are currently (2017) more than 20,000 e-journals and more than 36,000 e-books. A large part of the collection is freely accessible in the reading area. The reading and workplaces - equipped with WLAN - offer good conditions for concentrated work in the midst of specialist literature.
The online catalog of the Linz University Library is part of the union catalog of Austrian academic libraries and can be accessed around the clock worldwide. The UBL is therefore networked with other university libraries, for example by participating in the ALMA library network system or by concluding Austria-wide consortium agreements for the optimal use of databases and e-journals.
- over 1,000,000 volumes
- 20,436 e-journals
- 36,511 e-books
- 266,380 readers in the main library
- 580,393 loan transactions
(from the 2017 UB statistics)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ University library, general, history, inventory and use
Coordinates: 48 ° 20 ′ 16.9 ″ N , 14 ° 19 ′ 16.4 ″ E