University Library of Würzburg

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University Library of Würzburg
University of Würzburg seal.svg
founding 1619
Duration 3.6 million
Library type University library
place Am Hubland, Würzburg
ISIL DE-20
Website www.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de

The University Library of Würzburg is the central library of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . As the regional library of Lower Franconia , it collects Lower Franconian literature. The Würzburg University Library is supported by the Free State of Bavaria . With 3.6 million media it is one of the largest libraries in Bavaria .

history

In 1619 the Prince-Bishop Johann Gottfried I von Aschhausen founded the Bibliotheca Academica Godefridiana . Until 1981 it was housed in the Renaissance building of the Old University at Domerschulstrasse 16. In the 17th / 18th In the 19th century, the book inventory grew through the purchase of private book collections, e.g. B. of the Augsburg and Eichstätt canons Johann Georg von Werdenstein , the Würzburg cathedral vicar Paul Wenger and the Augsburg citizen Johann Baptist Welser. The Thirty Years War brought great losses. As a result of secularization , numerous manuscripts and incunabula came into the possession of the library in 1803 . The most valuable manuscript that the library has acquired since then (for 1.35 million DM with special funds from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and Art) is a copy of Lorenz Fries ' bishop's chronicle commissioned by Julius Echter . By 1806 the total stock had grown to 25,500 volumes. The library received private collections from the Würzburg collectors Friedrich Prym (cf. Sosylos - Papyrus ), Philipp Franz Horn (1781–1856), head nurse at the Juliusspital , and the physician Johann Lukas Schönlein . As a result of donations and purchases - for example the Fürstlich Leiningen library in Amorbach  - the total inventory grew to 370,000 volumes in the following 100 years. At the last count before the bombing of Würzburg on March 16, 1945 , there were 462,000 volumes. The fire destroyed 80% of the population. The restoration of the library rooms in Domerschulgasse, which was carried out under the state librarian and deputy director of the UB Georg Keller, was completed in 1957. In 1981 the new building (architect: Alexander Freiherr von Branca ) was moved into on the Am Hubland extension site . The Institute for University Studies was also housed in the building until June 2014 . Peter von Richarz and Anton Ruland are among the important librarians at the Würzburg University Library . In 2019 the university library celebrated its 400th anniversary with a diverse and extensive anniversary program. One of the highlights of the anniversary year was the exhibition "Ivory & Eternity", in which over 70 top pieces from the special collections were presented in a unique combination.

Library system and holdings

The UB's analog holdings include around 3.6 million media, including around 8000 current magazines. In addition to the printed inventory, users have access to an extensive electronic range ( e-books , e-magazines, e-newspapers). All electronic resources are listed in the library's catalog. Members of the University of Würzburg (students, lecturers, employees) can also use it from home for the most part. Half of the holdings are divided between the central library and around 70 branch, institute and clinic libraries. The numerous locations are the result of the eventful history of the university and its library. The cultural and historical significance of the university library is reflected in its special collections of important historical manuscripts and prints.

Würzburg University Library in numbers (2019)

University Library of Würzburg
The hall of the central library filled with people at the ceremony of the Würzburg University Library
Ceremony for the 400th anniversary of the Würzburg University Library
Total print media: 3,547,423
Total digital holdings: 214,589
New acquisitions (print + digital): 64,523
User: 23,643
Opening days / week: 7th
information

(Central Library and

Branch libraries):

37.501
Guided tours and courses: 620
1 central library:
Visits: 884.710
Borrow: 567,326
Jobs: 850
16 branch libraries:
Visits: 1,117,244
Jobs: 1,789

service

The university library offers introductory courses for special target groups, e. B. for students, pupils and teachers as well as events that are aimed at a wider audience. This also includes the guided tours of the Special Collections department, which have a specific theme. For its intensive and exemplary cooperation with schools, the University Library has repeatedly received the Bavarian seal of approval Libraries - School Partners . In addition, numerous courses to impart information literacy are offered, which are integrated into the curricula of almost all courses at the University of Würzburg. During the entire opening hours of the central library, library users can obtain advice by telephone or in person at the information desk. An information management system is available for inquiries, requests, purchase suggestions and criticism (ask the UB, based on OTRS ). The digitization center of the University Library offers reprographic services. The core tasks of the digitization center include, in addition to repro services for university and academic purposes, scanning work for electronic semester collections of the e-learning platform WueCampus as well as book digitization within the framework of the Würzburg virtual library and Franconica Online. The University Library of Würzburg supports the Open Access initiative with the online publication service OPUS Würzburg : Scientists and students of the University of Würzburg can publish their scientific work on this server. First and second publications as well as journals , series and conference reports from Würzburg scientists are available for scientific research worldwide. Scientists from the University of Würzburg can also publish their research results in the Würzburg University Press (WUP). The research results published by the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg publishing house are freely and free of charge available on the internet worldwide in accordance with the open access idea .

Special collections

The special collections of the University Library are looked after by two departments, each with a specific area of ​​responsibility:

The manuscripts and old prints department indexes and administers the university library's valuable old and special collections. The collection, which has grown for over 400 years, experienced its greatest growth in the years of secularization , when numerous books and manuscripts from the monasteries and monasteries in and around Würzburg came to the university library. Today, the holdings managed by the department include around 2300 manuscripts and around 3000 incunabula, numerous prints from the years before 1801, as well as papyri, autographs , bequests, original graphics , historical maps and plans. Among the greatest treasures in the collections are the Kilianse Gospels, written in France in the 6th century, and the Fulda Gospels with a description of the Würzburg market, as well as the circular by Prince-Bishop Julius Echter .

The Franconian regional studies department looks after the most extensive collection of Franconian literature and literature about Franconia , its culture and history at an academic library. Since 1962, the Lower Franconian Bibliography has also been created here as a regional bibliography for the Bavarian administrative district of Lower Franconia , today as part of the Bavarian Bibliography . From a spatial perspective, the focus of the collection is on Lower Franconia, but literature on Middle and Upper Franconia as well as Henneberg Franconia , Hohenlohe , Württemberg and Baden Franconia is also collected.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottfried Mälzer, Eva-Pleticha Geuder: The frieze chronicle of the prince-bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn. A magnificent Franconian manuscript from the 16th century from the holdings of the Würzburg University Library Codex M.ch.f.760. (Exhibition on the 500th anniversary of the birthday of Magister Lorenz Fries (1489–1550), October 19 - December 3, 1989) University Library Würzburg 1989, ISBN 3-923959-14-1 , here: p. 6 f.
  2. ^ Gottfried Mälzer: Würzburg as a city of books. In: Karl H. Pressler (Ed.): From the Antiquariat. Volume 8, 1990 (= Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel - Frankfurter Ausgabe. No. 70, August 31, 1990), pp. A 317 - A 329, here: pp. A 326 and A 329.
  3. ↑ Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, p. 16.
  4. ↑ 400 years of the Würzburg University Library. In: website. Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
  5. ^ Exhibition "Ivory & Eternity". Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
  6. ^ Gottfried Mälzer: Würzburg as a city of books. In: Karl H. Pressler (Ed.): From the Antiquariat. Volume 8, 1990 (= Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel - Frankfurter Ausgabe. No. 70, August 31, 1990), pp. A 317 - A 329, here: pp. A 321 f.


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