Vilnius University Library

Vilnius University Library
Vilniaus universiteto biblioteka
founding	July 17, 1570
Duration	5,382,000
Library type	University library
place	Vilnius , Lithuania
Website	biblioteka.vu.lt/en

The Vilnius University Library (lit. Vilniaus universiteto biblioteka , VUB ) is the oldest academic library in Lithuania . It was founded by Jesuits in 1570 , making it nine years older than Vilnius University . The library now has around 5.4 million media units on shelves over 166 kilometers. 28,420 registered readers are looked after by 195 employees. The library is visited by over 10,000 tourists annually.

Center for Science Communication of the Vilnius University Library (Scholarly Communication and Information Center, SCIC)

history

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At the request of the Archbishop of Vilna, Walerian Protasewicz (1505–1579), Jesuits came to Vilnius in 1569 and founded a Jesuit college with an attached library on July 17, 1570 with financial support from the archbishopric .

Librarians

The following is a list of university librarians since its inception:

Jonas Hėjus (1570-575) Laurynas Rydzevskis (1756-1757) Stanislovas Rostovskis (1765–1765) Juozas Pažovskis (1778–1787) Tadeušas Mackievičius (1787–1792) Rapolas Litvinskis (1792–1799) Augustinas Tomaševskis (1805), adjunct Fransua de la Žumeljė (1807), adjunct Gotfrydas Ernestas Grodekas (1804-1825) Liudvikas Sobolevskis (1826-1830)

Pavelas Kukolnikas (1830-1832) Aleksejus Vladimirovas (1866–1869) Jakovas Golovackis (1871–1888) Julijanas Kračkovskis (1888–1902) Flavianas Dobrianskis (1902–1913) Dmitrijus Daugėla (1913-1915) Eduardas Volteris (1919) Steponas Henrikas Rygielis (1924–1929) Adomas Gracijonas Lysakovskis (1930–1939) Vaclovas Biržiška (1940-1941)

Elena Eimaitytė-Kačinskienė (1941–1943) Juozas Baldžius (1944-1946) Marija Burokienė (1946–1948) Levas Vladimirovas (1948–1964) Stasė Vaidinauskaitė-Vaškelienė (1964–1968) Jurgis Tornau (1968–1985) Birutė Butkevičienė (1985-2006) Audronė Glosienė (2006–2009) Irena Krivienė (since March 2009)

Facilities

Information center for humanistics

The Information Center for Humanistics ( Humanistikos informacijos centras (HIC) ) and the reading room for Lituanistik were newly established and opened on September 7, 2007 . The HIC has 32 workstations, 27 of which are equipped with computers. These are located in four reading rooms: Silver room for magazines, modern literature (media library); Orange reading room a room for group work; Nut reading room the IT laboratory; and the Green Hall - a reading room for periodicals.

Reading rooms

The magnificent hall of the library is the former refectory on the library's ground floor.

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  P. Smuglevičius reading room

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  White reading room

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  General reading room

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  Professors' reading room

Center for Science Communication

The Center for Science Communication ( Mokslinės komunikacijos ir informacijos centras, MKIC ) opened in 2013.

literature

• Žibutė Petrauskienė: Vilnius University Library , Mintis, 1970
• Krystyna Bednarska-Ruszajowa: Books and their readers in Vilnius at the beginning of the 19th century , Lang, 1996

Web links

Commons : Vilnius University Library  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• www.biblioteka.vu.lt/en - Homepage of the Vilnius University Library
• Entry in the handbook of historical book collections

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistical data ( memento of the original from March 24, 2012 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. , Vilnius University Library, accessed April 8, 2012 
2. ^ Vilnius University Library, Scholarly Communication and Information Center (SCIC): SCIC .

Coordinates: 54 ° 40 ′ 58 ″  N , 25 ° 17 ′ 15 ″  E