Wuppertal University Library
| Wuppertal University Library | |
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 Wuppertal University Library
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| founding | 1972 |
| Duration | 1.2 million |
| Library type | University library |
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Wuppertal 
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| ISIL | DE-468 |
| Website | www.bib.uni-wuppertal.de |
The Wuppertal University Library is the university library of the Bergische Universität in Wuppertal . In addition to the five specialist libraries in the library headquarters on the main Grifflenberg campus , two other specialist libraries are maintained on the Haspel campus and on the Freudenberg campus . In 2015 the inventory was around 1.2 million books. The director of the university library is Uwe Stadler .
history
The Wuppertal University Library was founded in 1972 as one of five university libraries in North Rhine-Westphalia . The holdings of the predecessor institutes - the library of the Pädagogische Hochschule Rheinland, Wuppertal Department and the library of the Wuppertal University of Applied Sciences - were taken over and increased by numerous new acquisitions. Older holdings were only newly acquired in the course of adding back sources and text editions.
In 1980 the library had 960 workplaces, 60 of which were Carrel , despite only 9,200 students at the university, the largest number of workplaces to date. At the beginning of the 1990s, a new reading room was built on the roof of the eighth level in order to put an end to the dilemma between growing book stocks and decreasing jobs.
In 2003, the holdings of the subjects electrical engineering, information technology and media technology as well as the magazine for monographs were moved to the newly built specialist library 7 on the Freudenberg campus, so that the location on Grifflenberg could be restructured. As a result, a PC reading room was built for the first time. In 2006 the library's only director to date, Dieter Stuellen , was retired after 34 years in office.
The library has had a new reading room since March 2012, which was added to the roof of the ninth level. It offers 200 reading spaces, numerous internet spaces and three lockable rotundas with group workstations . The approximately 600 square meter building cost just under 3 million euros. In June 2013, the reading room also became part of the Architecture Day in North Rhine-Westphalia and was one of ten Wuppertal objects as a demonstration object for the design of classrooms in the virtual age.
In December 2013, the library received a large private donation from the Swiss classical philologist Mario Puelma , who died in 2012 . The donation consists of several thousand books of literature including private archives. In 2016 she also received a rare edition of the work “Astronautilia” by the Czech author Jan Křesadlo .
Since July 2016, books can be borrowed and returned independently via two so-called “self-check terminals”.
Readings
The university library regularly invites well-known personalities to give readings; so far, cabaret artist Fritz Eckenga , actor Günter Lamprecht , dramaturge John von Düffel and feminist Alice Schwarzer as well as the writers Frank Goosen , Wladimir Kaminer , Safeta Obhođaš , Katrin Bauerfeind and Ulla Hahn have appeared.
Directors
- 1972–2006: Dieter Stleichen
- 2006– : Uwe Stadler
structure
Seven specialist libraries are maintained:
- Grifflenberg campus
- Specialized library 1: Linguistics and literature, philosophy, theology
- Specialized library 2: economics and law, geography
- Specialized library 3: art / design / media studies, school book collection
- Specialized library 4: Mathematics, natural sciences, pedagogy, psychology, music, sports
- Specialized library 5: history, political and social sciences
- Campus reel
- Specialized library 6: architecture, civil engineering
- Freudenberg campus
- Specialized library 7: electrical, information and media technology
The library also has a copy center, four reading rooms, three group work rooms, a training room and a parent-child room.
Existence and use
The university library has 10,962 square meters of:
- more than 1.2 million books
- more than 1900 ongoing magazine subscriptions
- more than 53,300 digital holdings
- more than 20,000 electronic journals
Of the more than 1.2 million books, around 3000 titles can be considered historical. The oldest title is classified as an incunable and dates from 1490; there are also several titles from the 16th and 17th centuries. Less than 30 fonts are located as Remota in the so-called " poison cabinet ". The most important closed collections are the complete Jewish library of Schocken Verlag , Franz Kafka's library and the estate libraries of the classical philologists Günther Jachmann and Mario Puelma , the former Minister of Education, Werner Schütz and the Irish writer Walter Macken . Above all, Irish studies , Australian studies , Prague German literature and design as well as related collections of texts and libretti from English and French theaters of the 18th and 19th centuries are particularly well-regarded national collection areas of the library .
Almost 1.8 million books and media are borrowed from around 16,900 active users each year; the number of renewals and reservations is around 1.6 million. In almost 58,000 interlibrary loan transactions each year , non-existent media are procured from abroad. The number of printed new entries was over 13,800 in 2014, the number of electronic new entries was over 5,900. The textbook inventory is around 53,000.
In 2014 there were 747 user workstations, including 160 computer workstations.
organization
The director of the university library has been Uwe Stadler since 2006 , who has also been chairman of the Association of Libraries in North Rhine-Westphalia since 2015 . The organization takes place in the three departments budget and internal services , inventory and metadata management and user services as well as nine specialist departments.
As an operating unit, the university library is part of the university and a single-tier library . The information and literature needs of the university library and the university are determined, coordinated and covered via the library center. A commission made up of university members is responsible for distributing the acquired media and resources to the various subjects.
financing
The total expenditure for library operations in 2014 was over 5.5 million euros. The largest part is accounted for by personnel costs, around EUR 3.33 million. In 2014, 1.8 million euros were spent on literary acquisitions. This includes electronic content, in the procurement of which around 1.1 million euros were invested in 2014.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Handbook of Historical Book Holdings in Germany , Olms-Weidmann 1993, p. 350 f.
- ↑ a b Tobias Schwarck: Reading room of the UB Wuppertal - quality of workplaces counts , ProLibris 1/15, p. 19 ff.
- ↑ A temple for literature: The new reading room of the university on wz-newsline.de, article from March 22, 2012, accessed on December 15, 2012.
- ^ "Architecture Day": Visit to the reading room of the university library, on presse.uni-wuppertal.de from June 10, 2013.
- ↑ Swiss private library now in Wuppertal , on stadtnetz-wuppertal.de from December 18, 2013.
- ↑ Chronological list of exhibitions and events between 1987 and 2015 , accessed on March 11, 2016.
- ↑ Specialist libraries including further links to the media holdings.
- ↑ Description of the library profile in the Fabian Handbook, accessed on September 28, 2012.
- ↑ Münster: Books from the poison cabinet , in: Rheinische Post from October 1, 2015.
- ↑ Brief portrait - facts and figures ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Prospectus of the University Library Wuppertal, accessed on August 31, 2012 (PDF).
- ↑ a b Variable analysis of the German library statistics , accessed on May 9, 2016.
- ↑ Rector's Report 2014, Section “Structural Data”, p. 96.
