Weimar University Library

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Weimar University Library
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founding 1860
Duration over 500,000
Library type University library
place Weimar coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 37.3 ″  N , 11 ° 19 ′ 36.6 ″  EWorld icon
ISIL DE-Wim2
management Director Frank Simon-Ritz
Website www.uni-weimar.de/ub/
New construction of the Weimar University Library at Steubenstrasse 6
Street view of the new library building

The Weimar University Library is a central facility of the Bauhaus University Weimar and provides it with literature and information services for study, teaching and research. At the same time it is a publicly accessible scientific library for the city and the region.

The library has a total inventory of over 500,000 media, approx. 850 continuously kept print and almost 60,000 electronic journals (as of 2019) as well as an extensive range of e-books and databases and a special collection of DIN standards and TGL . The library is organized in one shift and is integrated into the German and international interlibrary loan system.

The online catalog of the university library , together with the catalogs of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library , the library of the "Franz Liszt" University of Music , the Weimar City Library and five official libraries, form the general catalog of Weimar libraries. It is part of the Common Library Network (GBV) . In October 2015, the library was able to release an app application for its catalog (BibApp HfM WE). In February 2017, she launched a discovery service called BibSearch.

The university library is a member of the German Library Association (dbv) and of the Working Group of Art and Museum Libraries (AKMB) .

The library is housed at its main location in two buildings (new library building, Steubenstrasse 6 and Limona, Steubenstrasse 8). In addition, there is a branch library for building materials / natural sciences in Coudraystrasse 7 until September 2020.

history

The history of the Weimar art and construction colleges goes back to the founding of the "Grand Ducal Saxon Art School Weimar" in 1860. Since that time, regular purchases of books and magazines can be traced, most of which are still in the university library's holdings today . A directory that was created in 1895 and continued until 1916 (original in the Thuringian State Archive in Weimar ) provides information about the existence of the art school, which was renamed "Grand Ducal Saxon University of Fine Arts" on the occasion of its 50th anniversary in 1910 .

In addition to the art college, the "Grand Ducal Saxon School of Applied Arts Weimar" was founded in 1907 under the direction of Henry van de Velde . The "Staatliches Bauhaus zu Weimar" was founded in 1919 as a merger of the art college and the applied arts school, which was dissolved in 1915. New acquisitions for the Bauhaus library can also be verified more or less regularly during the Bauhaus era .

After the Bauhaus was expelled from Weimar in 1925, the Academy of Fine Arts remained. A new beginning took place in 1946 with the founding of the "State College for Architecture and Fine Arts". In this context, a full-time librarian was hired for the first time in 1947 , so that this year is considered to be the actual year the (university) library was founded. The library was expanded and developed until 1989 in accordance with the central guidelines of the GDR for the development of universities and university libraries .

The third university reform in 1968 represented a turning point in the history of the university and the library . As a result of this reform, sections and section libraries were founded . In Weimar these were initially from 1969 the section libraries for architecture , regional planning and town planning , civil engineering as well as computer technology and data processing . In addition, from 1973 the section library for building material process engineering was added. In addition, the main library was expanded with a central stock of magazines and textbooks at “Karl-Marx-Platz” (later “Weimarplatz”).

Former “Limona” brewery building, converted in 1995 into a branch library

After 1990 the library also had to adjust to the change from the “University of Architecture and Building” to the “Bauhaus University Weimar”. The establishment of the faculties "Design" (1993) and "Media" (1996) corresponded to the establishment of corresponding book collections and branch libraries. The first milestone was set in 1995 with the opening of the branch libraries for “Architecture” as well as for “Art” and “Media” in a converted brewery building (“Limona”). With the start of construction in December 2002, the new university library was built on the site of the former brewery and was ready to move into in August 2005. At the Steubenstrasse location, the library has thus abolished the separation between the section or branch libraries and the main library. The library presents a systematically organized open access collection as well as a freely accessible textbook collection. In addition, there is a magazine inventory of approx. 250,000 volumes. The library has been managed by Frank Simon-Ritz since 1999 .

architecture

New library building

The university library has had a central location since September 2005 - on the site of a former brewery between Frauenplan, Steubenstrasse, Schützengasse and Brauhausgasse - a new building with approx. 4,500 m² of main usable space. The central lecture hall ( Audimax ) of the university is also housed in the new library building. In the two-wing building there are both usage and employee areas. In 2011, the building was connected to the Limona building in the first basement.

The project was realized by meck architects, Munich . After the urban development competition held in 1991, the office took over the planning for the new building. The building was inaugurated in 2005 after four years of construction and a construction cost of 12 million euros. The “New Library and Audimax of the Bauhaus University Weimar” received the 2006 Thuringian State Prize for Architecture and Urban Development together with the Duchess Anna Amalia Library's study center .

In front of the building is the work of art "Chair - Empty Chair" by Hermann Bigelmayr. The 20-ton work of art refers to the university as a teaching institution on the one hand and to the chair seating on the other hand, which is elementary in both the lecture hall and the reading room of the library.

Limona

Limona building at Steubenstrasse 8

The building, known today as "Limona", was originally built in 1875 as a brewery building. After heavy destruction in 1888 and 1945, the building could be rebuilt. In 1953 the brewery was transferred to public ownership and used for bottling lemonade . In 1989 the company was taken over by Coca-Cola , which handed the building back to an investor in 1991. The Limona building has been used by the Design Faculty of the Bauhaus University Weimar (renamed the Art and Design Faculty in 2016) since 1993. After the extensive renovation in 1995, library holdings were placed on the first and second floors, the second and third floors were expanded with their own photo laboratory for the design faculty, and a new, slightly recessed glass floor with a lecture and exhibition room was built on the roof. Architects: Horst Siegel , Weimar (project architect), Sylvelin Rudolf (library), Joachim Huber (studios / workshops), Torsten Brecht / Bernd Rudolf (glass floor / exhibition).

In 2015 the library areas in the Limona underwent a thorough renovation.

The character of the listed Limona building contrasts with the functional architectural language of the new library. In this immediate neighborhood, however, both structures contribute to the identity of the special place with their different spatial concepts. The glass front of the new building reflects the structures of the old building for mutual benefit. In the Limona library, the clear, stacked shelf structure in particular creates the space. The vertical lighting of the modern shelving system also enables the low storey height under the drawn-in gallery , accentuates the aisles and divides them rhythmically. Filigree cast iron columns with distinctive capitals , mighty steel beams and the masonry are respectfully preserved details of early industrial architecture .

Collection focuses and special collections. Digitization project

Collection focus

  • Architecture, town planning, technical expansion
  • Civil engineering
  • Building materials and materials, building protection, building damage, building material technology
  • Computer science
  • Media and cultural studies, philosophy, sociology, language and literature studies
  • Art, design, photography

Special collections

  • Bauhaus literature
  • Artist books
  • Donation "Heimo Bachstein"
  • Standards (DIN, TGL )

DFG project " Digitization and indexing of the historical book and magazine inventory of the Weimar art and building schools"

From November 1, 2009 to May 31, 2012, the university library carried out a project with the support of the German Research Foundation, in which 1,112 volumes with 423,185 pages from the university library's old holdings were indexed, digitized and made accessible. The digitization and indexing project concentrated on the literature holdings of the State Bauhaus Weimar and its predecessor institutions and covered the years 1860 to 1930. Particular attention was paid to the development of provenance, which was based on the model of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar using the thesaurus of provenance terms was made. An important goal was to determine visible traces or evidence in the volumes that provide information about the origin and use of the volumes and thus about their history, to record them and make them searchable. On the one hand, the digital copies were made freely accessible on the Internet in those cases in which it is possible under copyright law. On the other hand, digitization serves to protect the originals and thus to preserve the book and magazine inventory over the long term. The digital copies are stored on a server of the Service Center for Computer Systems and Communication (SCC) of the Bauhaus University Weimar. The Goobi open source software is used to present and manage the digitized material. The entire inventory is also recorded in the German Digital Library and in the Europeana .

Open Access and Research Data Management

Since 2004, the university library has operated OPUS Weimar, a document server that is used in particular to publish qualification papers. From 2004 to 2013 there was an intensive collaboration with the university publishing house of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, which ceased its work on December 31, 2013. On November 1, 2015, the Weimar University Library created the role of Open Access officer. On December 14, 2016, the Bauhaus University Weimar adopted an open access policy. The Open Access Publication Fund has been funded by the German Research Foundation since 2019 . The funded articles will be published in OPUS Weimar.

The library as an exhibition and event location

Since 2005, the university library has established itself as a location for regular exhibitions, often showing graphic works, artist books, typography or book cover design. Most of them are exhibitions by students and artistic employees of the Bauhaus University Weimar itself. In 2010 - as part of the 150th anniversary of the Bauhaus University Weimar - the university library presented an extensive exhibition of works by the architect, teacher, painter and photographer Rudolf Ortner . Book artists also presented their works in the library, such as Wolfgang Nieblich together with Lothar Hartmann, first organized by Galerie Profil Weimar in 2012. Another exhibition of these two artists took place in 2016/17. In 2014, the international traveling exhibition on book binding art, “Prize volumes of the Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2013”, stopped at the University Library in Weimar. Immediately afterwards, an exhibition with exhibits from the Trier papyrus collection was shown.

With “The Quiet Volume”, a radio play performance by British theater makers Tim Etchells and Ant Hampton, the university library became the venue for the Weimar Art Festival in 2015. In 2017, the university library again presented the exhibition "The library of illegible signs" by the Berlin artist Axel Malik in cooperation with the Weimar Art Festival and supported by the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen. In 2018 there was a further cooperation with the Kunstfest Weimar. The exhibition "21 memories of growing up" by the Swiss artist Mats Staub was shown.

In 2018 the Weimar library and lecture hall building was the venue for the Weimar Festival for audiovisual projections "Genius Loci Weimar".

From April 10 to July 24, 2019, the Weimar University Library presented an exhibition entitled “The Bauhaus Books: A European Publication Project of the Bauhaus 1924–1930”, which is exclusively dedicated to the Bauhaus books series .

From August to October 2019, the exhibition was shown in the Trier University Library.

The exhibition "Radiophonic Spaces" by Weimar media art professor Nathalie Singer was shown in the foyer of the Weimar library and lecture hall building from July 26th to September 19th

Since 2006 the university library has been one of the co-organizers of the Weimar literature festival "LesArten". Since 2009 she has organized a poetry reading every year in the glass pavilion on the Limona building. The poets presented in this way have so far included Nancy Hünger , Christian Rosenau , Heinz Kahlau , Uljana Wolf , André Schinkel , Uwe Kolbe , Roland Bärwinkel , Jens-Malte Fues , Hans-Jürgen Döring , Anton G. Leitner , Christine Hansmann, Thomas Rosenlöcher , Thomas Kunst , Regina Jarisch, Ulrike Draesner , Daniela Danz , Silke Scheuermann , Peter Neumann and Wolfgang Haak.

Due to the fact that the university library is housed in the same building as the Audimax , numerous larger library events have taken place in Weimar since 2005. In 2013, the 19th Thuringian Library Day took place in the Audimax of the Bauhaus University Weimar. In 2016, the university library hosted the spring meeting of Section 4 in the German Library Association. In 2019 the association conference of the joint library association was hosted at the Bauhaus University Weimar.

As a new event format at the Bauhaus University Weimar , a “Long Night of Scientific Writing” was held in the university library for the first time in 2015, and has been held annually since then. In 2020 the "6th Long Night of Scientific Writing" took place online as the first major digital event at the Bauhaus University Weimar.

The library as a location

After Eberhard Panitz (director: Frank Beyer ) used the premises of the old university library on Weimarplatz for a film adaptation of the DEFA of the novel The Seven Affairs of Dona Juanita and in 1999 the Limona was used as the venue for a film adaptation of the story Die Bibliothek von Babel by Jorge Luis Borges (director: Harald Opel), the new building of the university library is repeatedly requested as a location. As early as 2006, parts of the Leipzig Tatort episode Schlaflos in Weimar played here (director: Uwe Janson ). In 2015, the new library building was used as a filming location twice: once for an episode of the MDR series In all friendship - the young doctors and again for the implementation of the short film project M116 (director: Fabian Giessler).

In 2019 the lower foyer of the Weimar library and lecture hall building provided the backdrop for concerts by Alice Merton and Tim Bendzko as part of the "zdf @ bauhaus" series for the first time. This series is to be continued at the same location in 2020.

statistics

The university forum between the Limona building and the new library building

Media inventory 2019

  • Books, magazines and newspapers (in volumes) 513,547
  • Magazines and newspapers in print 856
  • Magazines and newspapers in electronic form 57,719
  • Databases (on the web) 242
  • Annual access (in volumes) 5,685

Literature acquisition 2019 (in euros)

  • Literature acquisition 621,818
  • of which for digital / electronic media 381,135.

Use 2019

  • registered users 10,305
  • Loans 99,716
  • Full advertisements of articles in licensed electronic journals 55,034
  • Full displays of digital individual documents (e-books) 491,979
  • Library visits 201,884
  • Submitted orders in interlibrary loan 2.415
  • Orders received in interlibrary loan 2.191

Information services 2019

  • User training (in hours) 259
  • User training participants 3,625

literature

  • Kerstin Bauer, Frank Simon-Ritz, Heidi Traeger: BibSearch: the Discovery Service of the Weimar University Library. In: VZG aktuell, issue 1/2017, pp. 15-18. ( Full text PDF)
  • Katrin Richter, Stefanie Röhl: Library goes international: Observations at the university library of the Bauhaus University Weimar. In: BuB: Forum Library and Information. Vol. 71, issue 02-03, 2019, pp. 146-149.
  • Sylvelin Rudolf, Frank Simon-Ritz : A showcase for art: The library of the Bauhaus University Weimar as an exhibition space. In: BuB: Forum Library and Information. Vol. 69, issue 6, 2017, pp. 312–317.
  • Katrin Richter: How does a collection get into a book? The Heimo Bachstein donation from the university library of the Bauhaus University Weimar. In: AKMB-News: Information on art, museums and libraries. Volume 23, Issue 2. AKMB, Düsseldorf 2017, pp. 49–53.
  • Volker Pantenburg, Katrin Richter (eds.): Enthusiasm for cinema: the Heimo Bachstein donation. Lucia Verlag, Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-945301-33-3 .
  • Lydia Koglin: Artist books in the library of the Bauhaus University Weimar: an attempt at order. In: Imprimatur: a yearbook for book lovers. Volume 24, Ges. Der Bibliophilen, Munich 2015, ISSN  0073-5620 , pp. 131–146.
  • Sylvelin Rudolf, Lydia Koglin: Book? Art! The artist book collection of the university library of the Bauhaus University Weimar. In: AKMB-News: Information on art, museums and libraries. Volume 21, Hwft 1. AKMB, Düsseldorf 2015, pp. 33–39.
  • Frank Sellinat, Frank Simon-Ritz: Henry van de Velde as a book and library designer in Weimar: a contribution to the anniversary year 2013. In: Imprimatur: a yearbook for book lovers. Volume 23. Ges. Der Bibliophilen, Munich 2013, ISSN  0073-5620 , pp. 305–322.
  • Tina Holzbach, Frank Simon-Ritz: Digitization and indexing of the historical book and magazine inventory of the Weimar art and building schools. In: AKMB-News: Information on art, museums and libraries. Volume 18, Issue 1, Düsseldorf 2012, pp. 16-19 ( full text PDF; 280 kB).
  • Sylvelin Rudolf, Frank Simon-Ritz: ... making the user's stay as pleasant as possible ...: Attractive work opportunities in the UB of the Bauhaus University Weimar. In: Petra Hauke, Klaus-Ulrich Werner (ed.): Library today! Best practice in planning, construction and equipment. Bock and Herchen, Bad Honnef 2011, ISBN 3-88347-274-3 ( full text PDF; 2.9 MB).
  • Frank Simon-Ritz: Book fates: the library at the Weimar Bauhaus. In: Imprimatur: a yearbook for book lovers. Volume 22, Ges. Der Bibliophilen, Munich 2011, ISSN  0073-5620 , pp. 305-316.
  • Michael Siebenbrodt , Frank Simon-Ritz (Ed.): The Bauhaus Library: Attempting a Reconstruction. Publishing house of the Bauhaus University, Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-86068-377-4 .
  • Frank Simon-Ritz (ed.); Kerstin Bauer (edit.): 50 years of dissertations at the University of Architecture and Construction and the Bauhaus University Weimar. Verlag der Bauhaus-Univ., Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-86068-275-X (full text)
  • Frank Simon-Ritz: In the heart of the university - the new library building of the Bauhaus University Weimar. In: Library - Research and Practice. Vol. 27, 2003, no. 1/2, pp. 122–124 (full text)
  • Heinz Stade: Living and Working in the Monument. H & L Verlag, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-934519-78-4 .
  • Ingrid Kranz: Treasures of the Weimar University Library. Publishing house of the Bauhaus University, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-86068-130-3 .
  • Johannes Schild: University and Library for Architecture and Construction - 40 years of library work at traditional Weimar University. In: Central Journal for Libraries. 1987, No. 1, pp. 15-22 ( login required ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bibsearch.uni-weimar.de
  2. ↑ uni-weimar.de
  3. ↑ uni-weimar.de
  4. ↑ University Library Weimar OPUS 4.6.3 | Home page. Accessed August 21, 2020 .
  5. ^ Open Access Policy of the Bauhaus University Weimar. Accessed August 21, 2020 .
  6. ↑ University Library Weimar OPUS 4.6.3 | Open Access Publication Fund. Accessed August 21, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Lydia Koglin: Between Theater and Happening. In: BuB. Vol. 67, H. 11, 2015, pp. 710-712.
  8. ↑ With some photos this exhibition is part of the volume "Axel Malik - Library of illegible signs", ed. by Klaus Ulrich Werner, Breitungen: Wulff Verlag, 2018 ( ISBN 978-3-941461-27-7 ).
  9. ^ University library : Genius Loci Weimar. Accessed August 21, 2020 .
  10. ↑ https://www.bibliotheksverband.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Landesverbaende/Th%C3%BCringen/bibliothekstage/DBV_Thuer_19BibTag2013_Inhalt.pdf
  11. ^ German Library Association eV: dbv - Sections - Section 4. Accessed on August 21, 2020 .
  12. ↑ See the report by Ute Sandholer in: VZG aktuell, edition 2/2019, p. 4-7, online at: https://www.gbv.de/Verbundzentrale/Publikationen/broschueren/vzg-aktuell/VZG_Aktuell_2019_02.pdf
  13. ^ Long Night of Scientific Writing at the Bauhaus University Weimar
  14. ↑ haraldopel.de