University library of the LMU Munich
| University library of the LMU Munich | |
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| founding | 1473 |
| Duration | more than 5 million media (as of December 2019) |
| Library type | University library |
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Munich 
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| ISIL | DE-19 |
| operator | Free State of Bavaria |
| management | Klaus-Rainer Brintzinger |
| Website | www.ub.uni-muenchen.de |
The University Library (UB) of the University of Munich (until 2012: University Library in Munich) is a central service unit of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) and provides the scientists as well as students of the LMU literature and scientific information in printed and electronic form . With a total inventory of more than 5 million volumes in 15 locations, it is one of the largest university library systems in the Federal Republic of Germany and the third largest library in Bavaria after the Bavarian State Library and the Erlangen-Nuremberg University Library . In addition, the LMU University Library preserves and makes accessible the unique old stock of valuable manuscripts and prints as the LMU's cultural heritage and offers visible open access platforms for electronic publications .
history
Just one year after the University of Ingolstadt was founded, the library of the artist faculty was built in 1473. In 1573, the Vice Chancellor of the University Martin Eisengrein initiated the establishment of an additional university library , which should also give the university's secular professors free access to the books. The basis was 6062 volumes by the Augsburg Bishop Johann Egolph von Knöringen , so that it was called the Knöringen University Library. When the order was dissolved in 1773, the Ingolstadt Jesuit library was transferred to the university library.
In 1799 the university moved out of Ingolstadt. In the Landshut period from 1800 to 1826 the library was housed in the rooms of the expropriated Dominican monastery. During the secularization in Bavaria there was a significant increase in books. With the “Decretum electorale” of 1803, the university library was entitled to take over the volumes of the Bavarian monastery libraries after the Munich court library . It also took over the holdings of the Seligenthal monastery as well as the Franciscan and Dominican monasteries in Landshut . When moving to Munich in 1826, the inventory had grown to 130,000 volumes. Initially, the library was housed in the building of the former Jesuit college on Neuhauser Strasse.
In 1840 she moved into the library of Friedrich von Gärtner's newly built university building on Ludwigstrasse. A modern university library was built from 1892 under the full-time management of Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld . With around 831,000 volumes, it was the largest university library in Germany as early as 1925. After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, the library management dismissed the supposedly Jewish employees in accordance with the law for the restoration of the civil service . In the Second World War , instigated by the Germans , around 400,000 volumes of incendiary bombs fell victim to the fact that no protective measures had been taken. In 1945 the reopening soon followed, even if only in temporary rooms for a long time, as the repair of war damage took decades.
It was not until 1967 that today's building in the south wing of the main building or in the former Bavarian saltworks administration was opened, and it wasn't until 1970 that the university library regained the status of 1942 with over 1 million volumes. Starting in 1976, the compilation of a complete journal directory for the university library, the library of the Technical University and the Bavarian State Library began . Since 1980, the collaboration with the university's more than 200 institute libraries has been steadily expanded. The introduction of modern IT systems made research easier.
The library system's first specialist library opened in 1985 with the specialist library for psychology and education. In 1993 the libraries of the Faculty of Business Administration and the Economics Institute were merged to form the Library of Economics. In 1999, the specialist library for chemistry and pharmacy in Großhadern and the specialist library Historicum were inaugurated. The large specialist library for theology and philosophy was created through the union of the institute libraries of Protestant and Catholic theology and philosophy in 2004. On September 30, 2019, the Philologicum library opened for linguistic and literary studies. With a stock of 430,000 media units and 740 reading and workplaces, it is the largest specialist library at LMU.
Library system and holdings
The library system of the UB of the LMU has the central library, the central textbook collection and 13 specialist libraries , which are distributed throughout the city of Munich and partly also the district of Munich. The library system also includes the Großhadern Clinic Library as a cooperation partner and 56 other LMU libraries, which are listed in the UB's online catalog .
With more than 5 million media in the entire library system, the LMU UB is one of the largest university libraries in Germany .
Central Library
Since 1967 the central library has been located in the main building of the Ludwig Maximilians University in the heart of Munich.
The central library has a total of around 2.8 million volumes (including dissertations ) and almost 5,000 regular subscriptions to printed magazines and newspapers. In order to provide LMU members with the best possible information and literature, the library also acquires and licenses numerous electronic media . The LMU University Library currently has around 91,000 electronic journals licensed, over 230,000 e-books and around 650 databases. The demand for electronically available information is high. In 2019 alone, the electronic books were accessed more than 6 million times.
In addition, the University Library has valuable historical holdings that it keeps permanently and makes available to science as an original or as a digital copy . This includes over 3,400 manuscripts and approx. 475,000 old prints, including almost 3,600 incunabula . The medieval manuscripts include treasures such as the Lex Baiuvariorum , the oldest surviving manuscript of Bavarian national law (around 800), or a gospel book from the court school of Charlemagne (also around 800); Cim. 1 (= 2 ° Cod. Ms. 29). The best-known incunabula include the Respice Domine by Ekbert von Schönau and the first German-language Bibles ( Mentelin Bible , 1466 and Eggstein, not after 1470, both Strasbourg). Furthermore, 186 bequests, approx. 15,000 volumes of the rare collection , the bibliophile library Maassen and an ex-libris collection (including the Wiese collection) belong to the important old holdings of the LMU University Library .
Central textbook collection
The central textbook collection not only houses over 92,000 textbooks in the fields of law, computer science and human medicine as well as textbooks in the humanities and social sciences, it also offers students attractive learning and workplaces in the city center. The philological collection is part of the Philologicum specialist library.
Specialized libraries
In the middle of the last century, the LMU's library landscape was characterized by a classically decentralized structure with almost 200 institute and chair libraries , often spatially cramped. At the end of the 1970s, a reform process to create larger specialist libraries was initiated. The aim of the reform was to ensure a better supply of literature for the expanding university and to use library resources more effectively by merging libraries with subject-related collections.
As early as September 1985, the LMU University Library opened its first specialist library with the Psychology and Education Library, thus laying the foundation for the development of a modern and efficient library system.
The LMU UB currently has 13 specialist libraries, which are spatially close to the associated faculties and spread across the entire Munich city area:
- Specialized library for biology and biomedicine (collection area: biology; incl. Textbook collection)
- Chemistry and Pharmacy Library (subject areas: biochemistry, chemistry, pharmacy; including textbook collection)
- English Garden Specialized Library (subject areas: biomolecular optics, computational linguistics, ethnology, computer science, Japanese studies, communication science, political science, folklore)
- Geosciences Library (subject areas: geology, geosciences, geography, economic and social geography)
- Specialized Library Historicum (collection areas: archeology, Byzantine studies, history)
- Specialized library for art studies (subject areas: art history, musicology, theater studies)
- Specialized library for mathematics and physics (collection areas: mathematics (including mathematics didactics), meteorology, physics (including physics didactics); incl. Textbook collection)
- Medical reading hall specialist library (subject areas: human medicine, dentistry; incl. Textbook collection)
- Specialized Philologicum Library (subject areas: Albanology, American Studies, English Philosophy, Finno-Ugric Studies / Ural Studies, German Studies, Classical Philology, Comparative Studies, Medieval Latin Philology, Nordic Philology, Romance and Italian Philology, Slavic Philology, Comparative and Indo-European Linguistics)
- Specialized library for psychology, education and sociology (collection areas: psychology, education, sociology; incl. Test library)
- Theology and Philosophy Library (subject areas: philosophy, religious studies, theology)
- Veterinary medicine library (collection area: veterinary medicine; including textbook collection)
- Specialized library for economics and statistics (subject areas: business administration, statistics, economics; incl. Economic textbook collection)
Other decentralized libraries
In addition to the central library and the specialist libraries, the university library also has other locations. Usually these are smaller institute and chair libraries. The integration of these libraries into the library system differs depending on the location.
Selected services
The main task of the library is the supply of literature and information to researchers and students at LMU. In addition, the University Library supports the members of the LMU with state-of-the-art infrastructure in publishing research results and research data in Open Access and thus making them visible worldwide.
Open Access LMU
With Open Access LMU, the university library offers a platform for electronic publishing on the Internet. Scientists from all faculties of the LMU as well as from institutions that cooperate with the LMU have the opportunity to publish their publications freely accessible on the publication server in accordance with the “ Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Scientific Knowledge ” .
The university library
- provides, among other things, the technical and organizational framework;
- ensures stable addressing of publications by assigning persistent identifiers ( URNs ), which are registered with the German National Library ;
- provides the interface for the exchange of standardized metadata with other servers and thus enables the publication to be found worldwide via search engines and bibliographic directories ;
- guarantees the long-term archiving of the publications.
Open Publishing LMU
With Open Publishing LMU, LMU scientists have the opportunity to publish congress volumes, classroom scripts, conference programs and other scientific texts in printed form as a publisher in addition to the electronic version.
Open Data LMU
Since 2010, the University Library has been advising LMU researchers on the creation and management of research data . On the Open Data LMU repository , research data from scientific projects at the LMU can be published and saved for the long term.
The university library's range of research data has been expanded since 2018 as part of the “eHumanities - interdisciplinary” project funded by the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art for three years. Together with the University Library of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the Humanities IT Group of the LMU (ITG), new aids are being designed and evaluated and best practice recommendations for research data management for the digital humanities are being developed.
Open journals LMU
With Open Journals LMU, the university library supports all members of the LMU in setting up an online journal with the Open Journal Systems software . The library takes over the hosting and data backup of the magazine and offers an introduction and support for the layout and the editorial system .
3D printing and 3D scanning
The LMU University Library has had a 3D printer since 2017 and offers a 3D printing service for all members of the LMU (students, doctoral candidates and employees). With the Formlabs Form 2 stereolithography printer available, fine structures can also be printed. The objects can be glued together or painted after post-processing. In addition to 3D printing, the University Library also offers the option of creating 3D models of objects by scanning. This service is currently still offered to a limited extent for individual scientific projects.
Web links
- www.ub.uni-muenchen.de University library of the LMU Munich
- History of the university library of the LMU Munich 1473–2004
- Zimelien of the university library of the LMU Munich in the culture portal bavarikon
- Open Access LMU
- Open Publishing LMU
- Open Data LMU
- Open journals LMU
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich Hohoff: Scientific librarians as victims of the Nazi dictatorship. An overview of 250 CVs since 1933 , in obib, vol. 2, no. 2 (2015)
- ↑ Variant of America's "birth certificate" in the UB
- ↑ Torsten Ostmann: 30 years of specialist libraries at the LMU Munich. The way to a modern and powerful library system. In: Bavarian Library Forum, issue 1/2016. Bavarian State Library, accessed on April 11, 2019 .