Magdeburg University Library

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Magdeburg University Library
Magdeburg University Library
founding 1993
Duration 1.2 million media units
Library type University library
place Magdeburg
ISIL DE-Ma9
operator Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
management Eckhard Blume
Website http://www.ub.ovgu.de/

The Magdeburg University Library is the scientific library of the Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg . In Saxony-Anhalt, with 1.2 million media units, it is the second largest library after the ULB Halle . The building is directly opposite the university data center and the cafeteria on the central square of the campus.

history

The university library of the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg was created by merging the former libraries of the Technical University, the Pedagogical University and the Medical Academy in 1993.

Library of the Technical University

In 1953 the Magdeburg University of Heavy Engineering was founded. In this context, a university library was set up. It was set up in the "Am Krökentor 2" building. From 1969 various branch libraries (areas of mechanical engineering, apparatus and plant engineering, social sciences, electrical engineering / electronics and materials science) were added. By the end of 1976 the inventory had grown to almost 170,000 volumes, plus over 2000 current journal titles. The large lack of space was provisionally combated by setting up the magazines in the corridors of the building. Due to the resulting high ceiling load, the library had to move to the old cafeteria and dormitory by May 1983. On September 20, 1984, a polytechnical patent library was opened as a department of the university library. When the Technical University Otto-von-Guericke received the status of a Technical University in 1987, the university library became a university library.

Library of the Medical Academy

The Magdeburg Medical Academy was founded in 1954. In the same year, the building of a textbook collection began. From 1959 the library was located in the building of the central lecture hall of the Medical Academy.

In 1969, the library was the first university library in the GDR to become the Medical District Library. Among other things, she was responsible for the supply of literature and information to health care facilities in what was then the Magdeburg district. In 1985 the library moved into the new cafeteria building.

Library of the Pedagogical University

The library was founded in 1963. When the university was founded, the library had already existed as an institute library for 10 years.

In 1985 the library building was extensively renovated. In this context, the conversion of the library was carried to a lending library .

Amalgamation

In 1993 the three libraries were merged. The university library of the Technical University became the main library, the university library of the pedagogical university became the faculty library for humanities, social and educational sciences and the central library of the Medical Academy was now called the Central Medical Library.

The time after the merging of the libraries was characterized by construction and the conversion to IT.

First, a transitional solution was created in 1993/94 to accommodate the faculty library for the humanities, social and educational sciences. A spatial expansion of the Central Medical Library, which had become indispensable, could gradually begin in 1994. From 1995 to 1997 the main library was reconstructed. With the opening of the new library building in 2003, the main library was also combined spatially with the faculty library for the humanities, social and educational sciences. The central medical library is still located on the premises of the university hospital and works independently of the university library .

The main library and the central medical library have been using the PICA software since 1993 . The faculty library initially still worked with Allegro , later it was also switched to PICA.

Duration

Look at the level of the human sciences

In 2018, the library owned 1,182,960 media units. 1,034 print and 24,550 electronic journals by subscription complete the offer.

In 1996 the library acquired the private library of the German literary scholar Walther Killy (1927–1995). This special collection comprises 6,414 titles from the years of publication 1557 to 1995. Part of the Killy library is a Paul Celan collection with many dedicatory copies.

The emeritus director of the Orthopedic University Clinic Magdeburg, Wolfram Neumann and his wife Ute Neumann donated more than 500 book series with around 20,000 copies to the Magdeburg University Library for the opening of the new library building in 2003. The almost complete island library contained in the Neumann Foundation should be emphasized - including the very rare volume 313 (Kayser: Poems of the German Baroque).

Neumann Foundation

use

In 2018 the library had around 17,400 active users (with a student population of over 12,000). Since this is a publicly accessible library, registration is possible for anyone over the age of 16.

2008 2010 2011 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Volumes (print) 1,188,000 1,208,498 1,220,366 1,216,118 1,213,514 1,219,010 1.210.150 1,201,609 1,182,960
E-books 531.899 660.713 645.973 714.873 750.275 372.298
running magazines print 2,189 1,142 1.312 1,070 1,001 955 1,135 1.101 1,034
Current journals electronically 21,268 25,537 20.506 23,138 23,310 23,568 23,649 23,235 24,550
Active users 22,800 22,178 22,104 22,627 22,819 22,998 22,075 21,776 17,433
Acquisition expenses € 3,158,000 € 3,159,058 € 3,497,031 € 3,558,651 € 3,557,687 € 3,556,561 € 3,660,372 € 2,920,517 € 3,040,189
Loans and renewals 891,000 891,000 891,000 602.496 518.406 486.106 568,741 561.212 535.785
Library visits 968,000 887,543 868.446 894,649 907.895 905.482 904.814 908.550 911,633
Carrels on the 2nd floor

There are 690 reading places available, which are distributed throughout the building. There is no central reading room . The library also has three group study rooms and 60 individual study rooms ( carrels ). The latter can be rented by users for a day or for a month. In a special work room for the visually impaired with a Braille display , the visually impaired can also work on a computer.

Reading areas on the 1st floor

Each reading area is equipped with a power and data connection. In addition, the entire usage area is covered by WLAN . Computers are also set up on 150 workstations. They also enable users without their own computer to conduct research on the Internet and save and edit files on their own account.

There is at least one copy room on all levels. The copier also serves as a printer for documents sent from the computers in the library network and as a scanner.

Literature information is available at the six information desks (at least one per level). The lending desk is located on the ground floor next to the exit. There are also three self- checkout machines available. Literature that is not in the library's holdings can be ordered from other libraries via interlibrary loan. The university library of the Otto-von-Guericke-University is affiliated to the Common Library Network (GBV) and carries the Sigel Ma 9.

Reading space in the area of ​​mathematics

The student ID card also serves as a user ID for students at Otto von Guericke University. Registration is free for all university members. External users have to pay a one-time fee for the user card when registering. This ID contains an RFID chip. As a result, it also functions as an electronic key for the lockers in the cloakroom and - if money has been loaded - as a payment option for the copier.

Patent Information Center counter

A patent information center and a DIN display point are integrated into the building . Among other things, users have the option to research patents , trademarks and designs or to carry them out themselves with the support of employees. Once a week you can also take advantage of a free initial inventor consultation from patent attorneys in the region. The DIN display point allows you to inspect a large number of the existing DIN standards (online and in paper form). A complete TGL collection is also available.

The library is regularly open Monday to Saturday and is open 300 days a year and 85 hours a week. In the evenings (on weekdays from 7:00 p.m. to closing at 11:00 p.m.), student assistants take care of the user. During the exam times there are also Sunday openings and extended opening hours on weekends.

Finding the individual departments in the library is made easier by a color concept and signposts in the form of pictograms. For example, fabric sails in the color of the respective area hang over the information counters.

At the moment (January 2013) 65 people work in the library, including six trainees for the profession of " specialist for media and information services " (FaMI).

building

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The new building for the university library was realized by the Stuttgart architects Auer + Weber + Assoziierte . Construction began in 1999, the foundation stone was laid on May 24, 2000 and the topping-out ceremony was celebrated on July 17, 2001. The official commissioning of the building took place on October 1, 2003. A usable area of ​​10,200 m² was created, 8,250 m² of which are used for the usage area.

The design of the building follows the principle of folding a polygonal ribbon. The ceilings and parts of the outer walls were made of exposed concrete. Most of the facade, however, consists of glass surfaces. Concrete, glass and wood also dominate the interior of the library.

The floor plan of the library is a trapezoid with a length of approx. 100 m. The width narrows from approx. 100 m to approx. 50 m. Due to the folding principle, the individual floor slabs do not extend over the entire floor plan. The building has three upper floors and has a partial basement. In the basement there are lockers for users as well as parts of the business corridor and the depth storage area (825 m²). Thanks to the slope of the surrounding area, the offices in the basement also receive sufficient daylight.

Three access cores run through the library vertically. They each contain elevators, escape staircases and building services equipment such as supply ducts, risers, etc.

The building is to be regarded as a low-energy house . Due to the heavy construction and the resulting large storage masses, the structure is thermally relatively "inert". The installation of active cooling options was therefore largely dispensed with.

Trivia

In the summer of 2014, the shooting of the third case of Police Call 110 from Magdeburg took place in the building of the university library. The episode entitled "A Murderous Idea" ultimately led the investigative duo Brasch ( Claudia Michelsen ) and Drexler ( Sylvester Groth ) to the computer science institute of the local university. The university library was used for a large part of the plot. Some exterior shots also show the building and places in the immediate vicinity.

literature

  • Wolfgang Adam: Library as an organism. The Killy Library and the Ute and Wolframm Neumann Foundation in the Magdeburg University Library , in: Magdeburger Wissenschaftsjournal 9 (2004), no. 2, pp. 55-65. http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/MWJ/MWJ2004/adam.pdf
  • Eckhard Blume: Open architecture requires intelligent acoustic solutions. Noise protection in the Magdeburg University Library , in: Libraries today! best practice in planning, construction and equipment, ed. v. Petra Hauke ​​and Klaus Ulrich Werner, Bad Honnef 2011, pp. 168–175.
  • Ditmar Schneider, Rudolf Engelhardt: A council of honor will observe the community city benefit. Newly acquired Gericke letter from the Westphalian Peace Congress from Osnabrück from 7./17. December 1646 , in: Monumenta Guerickiana. Journal of the Otto von Guericke Magdeburg Society eV Vol. 20/21 (2011), pp. 135–146.
  • Tilmann Gerlitz: Selected historical book stocks of the University Library Magdeburg , in: Writings of the University Library Magdeburg, ed. v. Eckhard Blume, Jürgen Heeg and Ralf Regener, Magdeburg 2018. doi : 10.24352 / UB.OVGU-2018-036
  • Ralf Regener: Hitler, Mein Kampf als library task - Ein Magdeburg Plädoyer , in: Bibliotheksdienst 50 (2016), no. 5, pp. 497–501. doi : 10.1515 / bd-2016-0050
  • Ralf Regener: The historical book inventory of the Magdeburg University Library , in: Bibliotheksdienst 52 (2018), H. 7, pp. 540-547. doi : 10.1515 / bd-2018-0065

Web links

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  1. ↑ History of UB Magdeburg ub.ovgu.de, accessed on 20 February 2013
  2. ↑ a b Facts and Figures , accessed on June 29, 2019
  3. ^ Collections of the University Library , accessed on February 20, 2013
  4. ↑ Numbers and facts from the University Library from 2008 . Archived from the original on June 6, 2009; accessed on February 17, 2018.
  5. ↑ Numbers and facts of the University Library from 2010 . Archived from the original on September 3, 2011; accessed on February 17, 2018.
  6. ↑ Numbers and facts of the University Library from 2011 . Archived from the original on July 12, 2012; accessed on February 17, 2018.
  7. ↑ Numbers and facts from the University Library from 2013 . Archived from the original on March 5, 2015; accessed on February 17, 2018.
  8. ↑ Numbers and facts of the University Library from 2014 . Archived from the original on November 25, 2015; accessed on February 17, 2018.
  9. ↑ Numbers and facts of the University Library from 2015 . Archived from the original on November 24, 2016; accessed on February 17, 2018.
  10. ↑ Numbers and facts of the University Library from 2016 . Archived from the original on August 19, 2017; accessed on October 7, 2018.
  11. ↑ Numbers and facts of the University Library from 2017 . Archived from the original on October 7, 2018; accessed on June 29, 2019.
  12. ↑ Patents and Standards , accessed February 20, 2013
  13. ↑ Architecture of the University Library , accessed on February 20, 2013
  14. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 30, 2017 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.daserste.de

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