University library of the Humboldt University of Berlin
| University library of the Humboldt University of Berlin | |
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 Reading terraces of the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Center, which opened in 2009 and is the seat of the central library of the university library
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| founding | 1899 |
| Duration | approx. 6,500,000 |
| Library type | University library |
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Berlin 
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| ISIL | DE-11 |
| management | Andreas Degkwitz |
| Website | www.ub.hu-berlin |
The University Library of the Humboldt University of Berlin is the scientific library of the Humboldt University of Berlin . With 6.5 million volumes, it is one of the largest university libraries in Germany .
structure
The library is divided into a central library, nine branch libraries, two of which each maintain a branch library, and the university archive.
The centerpiece is the central library, which is housed in a new building completed in 2009 - the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Center . She is also responsible for the historical book holdings such as the private working library of the Brothers Grimm. The Natural Sciences branch library with around 400,000 volumes is located on the Adlershof campus. It was created in 2003 by merging the chemistry, geography, mathematics / computer science, physics and psychology branch libraries.
Stocks
The library has a total of around 6.5 million books and around 9,000 current journals. She also looks after the special collection areas “Folklore and Ethnology” and “Higher Education. Organization of the Sciences and their Institutions ”as well as valuable historical collections such as B. Parts of Wilhelm von Humboldt's linguistic library , the archive of the Sunday literary association " Tunnel over the Spree " and the former private library of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm .
history
The Royal Library, which was initially used by the students after the university was founded in 1810, soon no longer met the requirements of teaching. In 1831 a completely new university library was set up, which, although managed by the Royal Library until 1898, was put into operation a year later with 1668 volumes. At first she was housed in the double room on the upper floor of the Royal Library. Two moves followed: in 1839 to Adler's hall on Unter den Linden 76 and in 1854 to Taubenstrasse 29. In 1835, Karl Friedrich Schinkel submitted a design for a new library building, which, however, was not implemented for financial reasons. In the first decades of its existence, the university library had only a small budget for the purchase of books and grew mainly through legal deposit regulations and the acquisition of scholarly libraries. It was not until the late 1870s that she was granted a fixed budget in the state budget. At the beginning of the 20th century, thanks to several special grants and the introduction of a library fee, it was able to close its loopholes.
Between 1871 and 1874 the architect Paul Emanuel Spieker designed a new library building at Dorotheenstrasse 9 (later No. 28). It is a simple brick building with a round arch architecture. Today the art history seminar is located in the building. From 1900 the neighboring building at Dorotheenstrasse 10 was also used. Shortly afterwards, construction began on a joint building for the Academy of Sciences, the Royal Library and the University Library between Unter den Linden and Dorotheenstraße. In April 1910 the university library was able to move into temporary rooms for use, catalogs and administration in Universitätsstrasse 7 as well as its already completed magazine floors. In 1922 the company moved into the final rooms on Dorotheenstrasse, in the center of which there was a reading room with 296 workstations and a reference library of 30,000 volumes. It was not until 2005 that the university library was forced to leave the shared building.
During the time of the Weimar Republic it already had 831,934 volumes (1930) and thus belonged to the top group of the Prussian university libraries. Outside loans reached a considerable level with over 200,000 volumes.
In the book burnings carried out at Humboldt University in 1933 , no volumes in the university library were burned, and losses and damage to books during World War II were also rather minor, although the holdings were not relocated but remained in the center of Berlin. That is why the library now has a homogeneous collection.
In the GDR, the many branch libraries were centralized and even after the fall of the Wall in 1989, the single-tier library system that had been built up was retained, interdisciplinary branch libraries were formed and expanded into a university library. Gaps in the book inventory that arose in the previous 30 years were reduced by extensive book purchases. With considerable special funds, new national and international research literature could be purchased.
The process of concentrating the Humboldt University on the three locations Campus Adlershof , Campus Mitte and Campus Nord also had an impact on the university library. In 2003, by merging the books from the departments of mathematics, physics, computer science, chemistry, geography and psychology on the natural science campus in Adlershof in the Erwin Schrödinger Center there, the Natural Sciences branch library was created.
With the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum , which opened in autumn 2009 and is located directly on the Stadtbahn between the Friedrichstrasse station and the main building of the university, the central library, twelve former branch and sub-libraries of the social sciences, humanities and economics also received as well as parts of the computer and media service a modern building for the first time. At the same time, the life science branch and sub-libraries on Campus North, the temporary location of the Central Library, were merged to form the Campus North Branch Library.
In 2011 Andreas Degkwitz was appointed director of the library.
See also
literature
- The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Volume 1: Heinrich Trost (Red.): Capital Berlin. 2nd unchanged edition. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1984, p. 175.
Web links
- University library website
- University library brochure (PDF; 832 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Joachim Krueger / Waltraud Irmscher: On the history of the Berlin university library (= contributions to the history of the Humboldt University in Berlin, vol. 3); Berlin [East]: Humboldt University 1981, p. 24f.
- ↑ https://www.ub.hu-berlin.de/de/ueber-uns/kontakt/ansprechpartner/dr.-andreas-degkwitz