Mannheim University Library

Mannheim University Library
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founding	1967
Duration	2.2 million media
Library type	University library
place	Mannheim coordinates: 49 ° 28 '59.1 " N , 8 ° 27' 49" E
ISIL	DE-180
management	Sabine Gehrlein
Website	https://www.bib.uni-mannheim.de/

The Mannheim University Library provides literature and information for research, teaching, studying and further education at the University of Mannheim . In addition, it is open to citizens, authorities and companies in the city and the surrounding area. She participates in international and German interlibrary loan . The areas of the Mannheim University Library are divided between the Mannheim Palace and the squares A3 and A5 .

Library system

The library system of the University of Mannheim, which is structured in one layer, consists of five library areas in which a total of around 2.2 million media units are set up. The library areas Schloss Schneckenhof, Schloss Ehrenhof and the Lending Center Schloss Westflügel are located in Mannheim Palace; there are two further library areas in squares A3 and A5. According to the orientation of the university, the holdings are focused on economics and humanities - with one further focus on the social sciences.

Library areas

Library and lecture hall building of the University of Mannheim : Library area A 3

Library range lock Schneckenhof: 49 ° 28 '59.3 " N , 8 ° 27' 50.5" O with an information center and Learning Center, 49 ° 28 '57.8 " N , 8 ° 27' 50.1" O presence stocks Betriebswirtschaftslehre49.48315 8.4640349.48272 8.46393

Ehrenhof Palace library area: 49 ° 28 ′ 59.6 ″ N , 8 ° 27 ′ 40.6 ″ E with history, law, economics and economic geography

Library range lock West Wing: 49 ° 29 '5.4 " N , 8 ° 27' 38.6" O lending center with Lehrbuchsammlung

Library area A 3 : 49 ° 29 ′ 8 ″ N , 8 ° 27 ′ 39.1 ″ E with English studies, educational sciences, philosophy, psychology, Romance studies, linguistics and literature, media library, psychology test library, microfilm archive

Library area A 5: 49 ° 29 ′ 13.7 ″ N , 8 ° 27 ′ 26.3 ″ E with social sciences, mathematics and computer science, European Documentation Center49.48715 8.4573

f1 Map with all coordinates of the library areas: OSM

Existence and use

Electronic library

The University Library Mannheim comprises an extensive collection of approx. 47,000 e-books, approx. 30,000 electronic journals and around 600 specialist databases (as of 2012). Articles and books can be researched in the Primo online catalog , which was developed by Ex Libris on the basis of Lucene software .

Historical holdings

Conversations Lexicon from 1840

General Prussian State Newspaper from 1819

The Mannheim University Library has an important and extensive collection of around 50,000 historical prints.

The core of this collection is the library of the Jesuit father François-Joseph Terrasse Desbillons SJ (1711–1789), who moved his library to Mannheim after the Jesuit order was banned in France in 1764 at the invitation of Elector Karl Theodor . Here he expanded it into a universal library, which eventually comprised around 17,000 volumes. His main interest was in neo-Latin literature . It is the largest collection of 18th century French books outside of France. The books encompass contemporary “world knowledge” and can be assigned to the disciplines of theology, natural sciences, history, ethnology and beautiful literature.

The second important historical collection of the Mannheim University Library is named after the merchant Julius Mammelsdorf (1839–1902), who was active as a speculator and banker worldwide and bought rare books during his stay in Mexico as a member of the board of directors of the Banco Nacional de México there.

These collections are fully indexed and can be found in the Primo research system. In addition, volumes relevant to research are digitized with the support of the German Research Foundation .

The historical book holdings of the publishers Bibliographisches Institut , FA Brockhaus , Meyers and Duden have been in library area A 5 since May 2013. The approximately 33,000 volumes are a donation from the Bibliographisches Institut to the University Library of Mannheim.

The digital copies of the university library also include letters and publications from Otto Selz's estate . These were made available to the public by the Otto Selz Institute for Applied Psychology (OSI) in 2013 on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the death of the psychologist and former rector of the Mannheim University of Commerce .

Digitized official community directories of the German Empire, the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany from 1894 onwards provide information on the number of households and residents by gender.

The statistical yearbooks of the German Reich , the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany offer online statistical data for the period 1880 to 1990.

More than 70 digitized volumes of the Hoppenstedt Aktienführer and its predecessor publications Saling's Aktienführer and Salings's Börsenpapier provide access to selected historical economic data between 1884 and 1999.

Another source for historical economic data, but also for a wealth of additional information, is the digitized Reichs- und Staatsanzeiger, which was first published in 1819 as the Allgemeine Prussische Staatszeitung and lastly in 1945 as the Deutscher Reichsanzeiger and Prussischer Staatsanzeiger .

history

The Mannheim University Library is a young library, but it has an ancestral line that goes back to the end of the 18th century. The library of the Jesuit College, the Harmony Library and other collections from institutions, associations and private individuals from the 19th century are now part of the historical inventory. The libraries of the commercial college (1907-1933) and the business school (1946-1967) were direct predecessors of the university library. In 1971, 240,000 volumes from the former scientific city library were added.

Directors of the former library of the commercial college and business college Mannheim

Willy Wenke (1910 to 1915)
Lilly Lichtenthaeler, acting (1915 to 1918)
Otto Behm (1918 to 1932, then merged with the Mannheim Palace Library)

Wilhelm Fraenger (1932 to 1933, afterwards the Mannheim Commercial College was incorporated into the Heidelberg University)
Lilly Lichtenthaeler (1947 to 1950)
Gustav Fuhrmann (1950 to 1966)

Directors of today's Mannheim University Library

Herbert Haas (1967 to 1975)
Manfred Kleiss (1975 to 1995)
Christian Benz (1995 to June 2017)
Sabine Gehrlein (since July 2017)

literature

Annette Klein and Christian Hänger (Eds.): 50 Years of Mannheim University Library: Development and Perspectives . Mannheim University Press, Mannheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-939352-27-3 ( uni-mannheim.de ).
Melanie Mertens: "Book box". The library and lecture hall building of the University of Mannheim. News bulletin of the preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg, year 2018, issue 3, pp. 165-168. (PDF; 9.8 MB)

Web links

Commons : University Library Mannheim - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ blog.bib.uni-mannheim.de .
↑ Regulations for the use of the Mannheim University Library. Mannheim University Library, November 6, 2009, accessed on January 23, 2014 .
^ UB Mannheim - Special Collection - Old Prints. Desbillons collection. Mannheim University Library, accessed on December 23, 2015 .
↑ Mannheimer Morgen: Books find new homes. May 17, 2013, accessed May 17, 2013 .
↑ Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw): Mannheim University Library receives a donation from the Mannheim publishing archive. May 16, 2013. Retrieved May 16, 2013 .
↑ Mannheim University Library: Otto Selz estate. Mannheim University Library, accessed on May 20, 2019 .
^ Community directories. Mannheim University Library, accessed on March 5, 2019 .
^ Statistical yearbooks. Mannheim University Library, accessed on September 5, 2019 .
↑ Stock leader data archive. Mannheim University Library, accessed on December 23, 2015 .
↑ Reichs- und Staats-Anzeiger. Mannheim University Library, accessed on January 16, 2017 .
^ Christian Hänger: From the library of the commercial college to the Mannheim University library: the development of the library from 1907 to 1975 . In: 50 Years of Mannheim University Library: Development and Perspectives . Mannheim University Press, Mannheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-939352-27-3 , pp. 37–60 ( uni-mannheim.de [accessed March 29, 2020]).

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[2] Regulations for the use of the Mannheim University Library. Mannheim University Library, November 6, 2009, accessed on January 23, 2014 .

[3] UB Mannheim - Special Collection - Old Prints. Desbillons collection. Mannheim University Library, accessed on December 23, 2015 .

[4] Mannheimer Morgen: Books find new homes. May 17, 2013, accessed May 17, 2013 .

[5] Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw): Mannheim University Library receives a donation from the Mannheim publishing archive. May 16, 2013. Retrieved May 16, 2013 .

[6] Mannheim University Library: Otto Selz estate. Mannheim University Library, accessed on May 20, 2019 .

[7] Community directories. Mannheim University Library, accessed on March 5, 2019 .

[8] Statistical yearbooks. Mannheim University Library, accessed on September 5, 2019 .

[9] Stock leader data archive. Mannheim University Library, accessed on December 23, 2015 .

[10] Reichs- und Staats-Anzeiger. Mannheim University Library, accessed on January 16, 2017 .

[11] Christian Hänger: From the library of the commercial college to the Mannheim University library: the development of the library from 1907 to 1975 . In: 50 Years of Mannheim University Library: Development and Perspectives . Mannheim University Press, Mannheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-939352-27-3 , pp. 37–60 ( uni-mannheim.de [accessed March 29, 2020]).