Rostock University Library

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Rostock University Library
University library, new building from 2004
Campus library Südstadt
Architects: HLT, Denmark

founding 1569
Duration approx. 2.2 million volumes
Library type University library
place Rostock coordinates: 54 ° 4 ′ 32.1 ″  N , 12 ° 6 ′ 12.8 ″  EWorld icon
ISIL DE-28 (Rostock University Library)
Website www.ub.uni-rostock.de

The Rostock University Library was founded in 1569. This makes it the oldest university library in Northern Germany and in 2019 it can look back on 450 years of history. The Rostock University Library is responsible for the university-wide supply of research, teaching and studies with scientific literature and information. As a large academic library in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , it also serves to supply regional and national literature for academic and professional work as well as training.

Existence and use

In 2017 the library had a total of around 2.2 million volumes. It consists of two campus and several specialist libraries, which are also listed in the Rostock Region Libraries portal , an overview of all publicly accessible libraries, archives and special collections in the city and the Rostock region.

It has extensive special collections of valuable old holdings in terms of cultural and scientific history . The treasures of the cultural heritage include a. old prints, historical maps and atlases as well as an extensive Mecklenburgica collection.

After the research library of the Wossidlo Research Center for European Ethnology and Folklore, which was acquired in 1999, the Wossidlo archive will also be affiliated to the university library in 2017. The historical and cultural collections of the university library are brought together in a regional scientific research center, the Richard Wossidlo Center.

The university library include University Archives and Custody with the task of safekeeping, conservation and enhancement of all documents of organs, faculties and institutions of the University of lasting value.

The Patent and Standards Center (PNZ) makes extensive inventories of patent specifications available and carries out searches in all relevant patent databases on behalf of the user. The entire DIN standards and regulations as well as the VDI guidelines are also available.

history

View of Rostock with the Bibliotheca engraving by Wenzel Hollar, completed in 1614

The beginnings of the university library go back to the Middle Ages - books ad librariam Artistarum in Rostock were already dedicated in the 15th century . However, the library was born on July 13, 1569: on this day the council of the university, Nathan Chyträus (1543–1598), decides to make a room available for the collectio bibliothecae . Nathan Chyträus gave the first book and put on a Liber facultatis philosophicae . In 1615 Joachim Morsius became the first Rostock university librarian . From 1650 two professors were entrusted with the supervision of the collection and a loan book was created. In the first alphabetical volume catalog by Joachim Heinrich Sibrand (1670–1743), around 2000 volumes were recorded in 1709.

After the separation of the university and the establishment of the Bützow University "Fridericana" in 1758 the Academic Library in Bützow was opened in 1772 under the orientalist Oluf Gerhard Tychsen (1734-1815). The union of the two universities in 1789 also resulted in a considerable increase in the number. Among other things, the Renaissance library of Duke Johann Albrecht I of Mecklenburg (1525–1576) and the so-called Rostock Great Atlas came to Rostock .

From 1840 onwards, the library was reorganized for several decades under the leadership of Christian Erhard von Nettelbladt and a new volume catalog was created in which all books were listed until 1963. A card catalog ("garter catalog") was created as a corresponding alphabetical register. The most important acquisition during this period is the library of around 18,000 volumes belonging to the Rostock lawyer Ferdinand Kämmerer (1784–1841).

In the new main university building completed in 1870, the library was given the right wing of the building and was the first library in Germany to be built according to the magazine system.

After years of efforts under Bruno Claussen , who has been working at the library since 1912 and was the first full-time director in 1934 , a then modern warehouse building was moved into in 1939, which is also known as the book warehouse because of its architectural reference to North German warehouses.

The library was reopened in October 1945 without any significant war losses. A few years later a reading room was set up in the Palais on Universitätsplatz and a catalog room in the “Rostocker Hof”.

In 1992 the electronic inventory of the holdings began.

After the renovation in 1994, the former Michaeliskloster was able to house the history library until 2017 and the theology and philosophy library from 2018. The special collections department with the historically valuable holdings has been located in the Michaeliskloster since 1999.

In 2004 it was possible to move into a new building, especially for the agricultural, natural and engineering sciences as well as IT and medicine.

The library is currently spread across nine different locations. It owns more than two million books and magazines in all subject areas and spends the majority of its acquisitions budget, more than 70% in 2017, on electronic media.

literature

Web links

Commons : Rostock University Library  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rostock University Library in numbers . Rostock University Library. Retrieved August 16, 2011.
  2. ^ History of the Rostock University Library . Rostock University Library. Retrieved November 28, 2013.
  3. ^ Departmental libraries of the Rostock University Library . Rostock University Library. Retrieved August 16, 2011.
  4. ^ Libraries in the Rostock region . Rostock University Library. Retrieved November 28, 2013.
  5. ↑ Holdings of special collections . Rostock University Library. Retrieved August 16, 2011.
  6. ^ University archive and custody . Rostock University Library. Retrieved August 16, 2011.
  7. ↑ Patent and Standards Center . Rostock University Library. Retrieved August 16, 2011.
  8. ↑ New construction of the Südstadt library . Rostock University Library. Retrieved August 16, 2011.
  9. ↑ Library index University Library Rostock (2012) . German Library Association . Retrieved June 22, 2013.