Regensburg University Library

Regensburg University Library
Regensburg University Library Central Library
founding	1964
Duration	approx. 3.6 million media
Library type	University library
place	regensburg
ISIL	DE-355
Website	www.uni-regensburg.de/bibliothek

The Regensburg University Library is one of the largest libraries founded in Germany in the 1960s and 1970s . The innovative planning as a single-layer library system and the use of the Regensburg network classification made it a model for many new libraries in Bavaria and beyond.

The university library is a central facility of the University of Regensburg and is maintained by the Free State of Bavaria . It is open to the public. With 3.6 million media it is one of the largest libraries in Bavaria .

history

Barrier-free ramp to the textbook collection

The university library was founded in 1964 and construction began in 1971. The individual library locations were still spread across the entire city of Regensburg . The new concept no longer provided for independent institute libraries, but central procurement and cataloging of the holdings. As groundbreaking it proved also that books belong together professionally and largely generally available (see open access ) to set up. For this, the developed library a classification system , called the Regensburg Classification . This was later used throughout Germany. 1.2 million volumes in just ten years mark the following rapid inventory build-up . Modern information technology was introduced in 1967. At that time, the first complete catalog created using EDP was printed out.

The first union catalog was produced in 1976. The early use of data processing was of great importance in the creation of the library catalog . After the foundation of the Augsburg University Library in 1970, the Regensburg Library Association - the first German library association - developed . This was operated in Regensburg until 1981. In 1974, all of the branch libraries were finally merged on the university campus of the University of Regensburg.

In 1994 a local online catalog (OPAC) was put into operation. In 1996, the extension of the central library began, which included a compact magazine for 1.3 million books and a new post office. In 1997 the project of the Electronic Journal Library (EZB) started. The university library is responsible for developing and maintaining this successful user service for academic full-text journals. In 1999, an urgently needed extension of the magazine could be moved into, which can accommodate around 1.3 million books.

Since 2001 the MultiMediaZentrum of the university library has been offering a wide range of digital services (book scanner, large format scanner, slide scanner, audio and workstation for the blind). In 2002, the cooperative database information system (DBIS) was launched in Regensburg. This is a web-based service for the use of scientifically relevant databases for literature and information research. In 2004 the historical radio advertising archive was inaugurated, a collection of radio advertising broadcasts from the years 1948 to 1987. In 2005 the library was nominated for the "eEurope Awards for eGovernment". A year later, the university library was an excellent place in the land of ideas . In 2007 a reading terrace was opened in the central library.

Duration

The “Philosophicum 2” reading room of the Regensburg University Library

The university library has approximately 3.5 million volumes including microforms, cards, audiovisual media, videos, CD-ROMs and DVDs. There are also around 4,400 current printed magazines and newspapers in the inventory. The holdings are placed close to the user in a central library and eleven decentralized reading rooms in the faculty buildings. There is also a growing range of electronic journals and databases.

Special stocks

Special collections are: The library of the Regensburg Botanical Society, the library of the Natural Science Association of Regensburg, the European Documentation Center of the EU, the Regensburg portrait gallery (digitized portraits), the historical advertising radio archive , the Hörburg archive (sound documents on ethnomusicology and folk music), the Paul- Ernst Archive and the Michaela Riese Foundation Library .

Projects and bibliographical works of the library

Current projects

• Expansion, consolidation and optimization of the nationally used database information system DBIS (DFG project)
• Long-term digital availability in the Bavarian Library Network
• eBooks-On-Demand-Network Opening Publications for European Netizens
• Process-oriented discourse analysis
• Subproject of the DFG research group HELICAP

Ongoing bibliographic work

• Upper Palatinate Bibliography (part of the Bavarian Bibliography )
• Regensburg bibliography

Completed projects (selection)

• eBooks on Demand
• Bavarian State Library Online
• Digitization of the historical radio advertising archive
• Open Access Publishing
• Open access services of the electronic journals library
• Regensburg portrait gallery
• Regensburg network classification online

staff

Personnel positions

• 178 (as of 2006)

Head of the library

• 1964 to 1989: Max Pauer
• 1990 to 2008: Friedrich Geißelmann
• 2008 to 2015: Rafael Ball
• from 2016: André Schüller-Zwierlein

Cooperations

• Lending network UBR, State Library and University Library
• Cooperation with the State Library (cooperation agreement)
• Cooperation with virtual specialist libraries via the electronic journals library (EZB)
• Cooperation with magazine database (ZDB)
• Partner library in the EOD network for the ebooks on demand service
• Regensburg library network
• Slovenian reading room (joint project between the University of Regensburg [represented by UBR], the Republic of Slovenia and the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies )
• Participation in national and international projects

literature

The complete annual reports of the University Library of Regensburg since 2002 can be found on the publication server of the University of Regensburg.

• Christoph Straßer / Eike Unger: "University of Regensburg, extension of the central library." Regensburg 2001
• Max Pauer: "The Regensburg University Library". In: The re-establishment of academic libraries in the Federal Republic of Germany ", pp. 169–197. Munich 1990
• Paul Niewalda: "The EDP in the service of the University Library Regensburg". In: "Bavarian Library Landscape". Wiesbaden 1989
• Max Pauer: "Regensburg University Library". In: "Scientific Libraries in Regensburg", pp. 205–250. Wiesbaden 1981
• "10 years of the library system at the University of Regensburg". In: Library Forum Bavaria 3 (1975)

Web links

• University Library Regensburg (Homepage)
• Information and publications to download (more information to print)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Source: www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/ubr/profil.htm#wich ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2008 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. 
2. ↑ Source: www.uni-regensburg.de/bibliothek/bestaende/sonderbestaende/paulernst/index.html
3. ↑ Source: www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/projekte/projekte.htm ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Source: http://epub.uni-regensburg.de/view/institutions/zen01.html

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