University Library Potsdam

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University Library Potsdam
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Information and communication center of the University of Potsdam / Golm library

founding 1991
Duration 2800000
Library type University library
place Potsdam coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 30.5 ″  N , 12 ° 58 ′ 22.9 ″  EWorld icon
ISIL DE-517
Website info.ub.uni-potsdam.de

The Potsdam University Library is the largest academic library in the State of Brandenburg and a central infrastructure facility. It provides researchers , lecturers and students at the University of Potsdam with literature and other information resources. It is also available to the citizens of the region and members of other universities in Potsdam and Berlin as well as non-university institutions.

Structure and organization

The library is organized as a “single-tier” library system, with uniform management and central allocation of resources. The three departmental libraries are located decentrally, according to the distribution of the university. The humanities holdings are mainly located in the World Heritage Park Sanssouci at the New Palais , the holdings of law, economics and social sciences on the Babelsberg-Griebnitzsee campus , the human and natural science literature in the Potsdam-Golm Science Park . The university archive and the university publishing house are affiliated to the university library .

In the course of the structural reform of the German librarianship, the university library cooperates with numerous regional or supraregional active information infrastructure institutions, also across disciplines, and assumes responsibility for the creation of a service network of Brandenburg libraries, the goals of which are to bundle resources and make personnel deployment more effective. Scientists and citizens, students and trainees nationwide are to be offered a constantly optimized supply of information and literature as well as modern services that keep pace with rapid technological change and correspond to the reality of life for those seeking information.

history

Babelsberg Library - House 5

The library was founded in 1991 as the library of the University of Potsdam, which was newly founded in the same year. It integrates holdings from previous institutions such as the Karl Liebknecht University of Education at the New Palais and the Babelsberg Academy for Political Science and Law of the GDR . Settled in constantly changing buildings for years, the library was finally able to move into functionally equipped rooms: in 2000 in Babelsberg a converted former warehouse of the German Red Cross , in 2006 at the New Palace a new glass building was added to the remise on the southern farm building of the palace. In 2011, the first genuine library building in the history of the university, an information and communication center in the Golm Science Park, was completed. The modern functional building (6,800 m² HNF, 1 million volumes storage capacity) is equipped with event, group and individual work rooms, spacious reading areas as well as rare and multimedia areas.

Existence and use

Departmental Library Am Neuen Palais - House 10

With a stock of approx. 1.3 million volumes, 27,000 electronic journals as well as 260 databases and 1.5 million e-books , the Potsdam University Library is one of the medium-sized UBs in Germany. She is a member of the Cooperative Library Association Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV), which supports her in the area of ​​electronic publishing and a partner of the Joint Library Association (GBV), in whose association database GVK she catalogs and whose online interlibrary loan she participates.

In the early years of the university, the university library compiled a core inventory of literature for research and teaching on the basis of the federal and state funding for basic books (1991–2002) within the framework of the University Building Funding Act (HBFG). This inventory will be further completed. It includes literature from all fields of science in accordance with the orientation of the university as a university with a full range of subjects (except medicine) and interdisciplinary standards. The profile areas defined in the University Development Plan of the State of Brandenburg up to 2025 in the area of ​​teacher training, media studies, natural sciences, Jewish studies, etc. a.

About half of the holdings are set up in the open access area, according to the Regensburg Association Classification (RVK), which is widespread in Germany . A free internal loan system enables literature to be ordered from one library location to another. Almost 28,000 active users make a total of around 430,000 loans annually and meanwhile 1.8 million clicks on the online offers.

An increase in efficiency and improved service quality was achieved through the introduction of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification). Since 2011, the open access holdings at all locations have been equipped with transponders , which enable users to post faster for self-borrowing as well as fully automatic media return at the Golm location.

A total of 740 workstations are available to readers within the framework of the library system, 160 of which have a PC and catalog and / or Internet access.

Special collections

The Potsdam University Library has valuable Judaica and Hebraica collections, in particular:

  • the estate (Findbuch) of Israil Bercovici (1921–1988), a chief dramaturge of the Jewish State Theater in Bucharest and an important historian of Yiddish theater.
  • I. Bercovici's unique collection of Yiddish literature
  • the Yehuda Aschkenasy collection with the holdings of the former Berlin Veitel Heine Ephraim School, source works on all important areas of Hebrew-rabbinical literature (including valuable Bible editions), as well as 58 Hebrew manuscripts from Yemen (17th century / 18th century).
  • the Dr. Israel Mehlmann, whose main focus is on Kabbalah , Hasidism , liturgy and Yiddish and Hebrew folk tales.
  • the digitized music library of Yiddish songs and klezmer music of Jiddisten, Chasans (prayer leaders) and musicologist David Kohan , which is in the context of a wiki the college audience on campus available as well as external researchers after registration is available.
  • the collection of historical sound recordings of Yiddish songs, klezmer music and Purim plays by the ethnologists Moishe Beregowski and Sofia Magid from Kiev and Saint Petersburg.

The library's holdings also include historical works from all academic disciplines from the 17th and 18th centuries, which are successively digitized and presented on the Digitales Brandenburg platform.

Since 2009, Potsdam University Library has integrated the special library of the former European Enlightenment Research Center (FEA) . It offers the entire text of the "New Library of Fine Sciences and the Freyen Künste" in digital form, one of the most important German-language journals of the second half of the 18th century, which the former FEA had developed as part of a project of the German Research Foundation .

On permanent loan, the university library looks after the library of the German Society for Geosciences , whose holdings include an important geological map collection that is the subject of various digitization projects.

Potsdam University Library was the United Nations' depot library from 1995 to 2019 .

University Archives

The university archive emerged in 1991 from the archive of the Brandenburg State University, whose immediate predecessor was the archive of the Karl Liebknecht University of Education in Potsdam. This university archive was established in 1966 and was both an administrative and a final archive. The archive material in the university archive today covers approx. 1,800 linear meters and dates back to 1948, the year the first Brandenburg State University was founded. The archive keeps u. a. the files of the following former institutions:

  • Brandenburg State University, Potsdam
  • Pedagogical University "Karl Liebknecht", Potsdam
  • Institute for Teacher Education “Rosa Luxemburg”, Potsdam
  • Institute for Teacher Education “Clara Zetkin”, Cottbus
  • Academy for Political Science and Law, Potsdam-Babelsberg

The university archive is a public archive. Its task is to make the documents of lasting value created at the university accessible, to preserve them and to make them available for inspection or to publish them.

University Press

The publications office of the University Library Potsdam, founded in 1998, is an integrated service area for print and e-publishing. It bundles the responsibilities for the university press, document server, university bibliography and exchange office. With its printed and electronic offer, the Universitätsverlag stands for unrestricted and sustainable access to research results from the University of Potsdam's scientists in accordance with the principles of open access , which the University Senate confirmed in its resolution of May 17, 2006. With the publication and distribution of quality-checked content, it has established itself as a platform for scientific publishing that increases the visibility of the university's own research. In addition to publications in text form, multimedia publications such as recordings of inaugural lectures, digital music archives and others, which are offered on the university multimedia server operated by the University Library, are now increasingly coming to the fore.

The university publishing house is a member of the working group of university publishing houses. In 2013 it has over 500 deliverable titles in its range, which can be ordered through its own webshop and bookstores. 80% of his production is online in full text on the publication server for text documents, which in 2013 archived a total of approx. 6000 freely accessible publications by university members. The university bibliography shows more than 22,000 publications by Potsdam scientists and grows by approx. 1200 new publications every year.

See also

References

  1. Science Park Potsdam-Golm
  2. ^ Departmental library Babelsberg House 5
  3. New library building at the New Palais (PDF; 696 kB)
  4. ^ Department library Golm House 18
  5. ^ Riemer, Nathanael: The Judaica and Hebraica holdings of the Potsdam University Library. In: Journal of Librarianship and Bibliography. 53 (May-August 2006) 3-4, pp. 165-168.
  6. Finding aid (PDF; 5.3 MB)
  7. New Library of Fine Sciences and the Free Arts, ed. Christian Felix Weisse, Johann Gottfried Dyk, Volume 1–72 (1765–1806) ( Memento of the original dated May 24, 2009 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 / scout.ub.uni-potsdam.de
  8. Handbook of the historical book inventory
  9. ^ UN depot library. Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
  10. Open Access Resolution
  11. Multimedia server
  12. Working group of university publishers ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de
  13. Webshop

literature

  • Manfred Görtemaker (Ed.): The University of Potsdam: History - Buildings - Environment. Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8305-0230-3 .
  • Nathanael Riemer: The Judaica and Hebraica holdings of the Potsdam University Library. In: Journal of Librarianship and Bibliography. Issue ¾, 2006, pp. 165–168.
  • German library statistics

Web links

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