University library of the Vienna University of Technology

Vienna University of Technology library
Main library, Treitlstrasse at the corner of Wiedner Hauptstrasse
founding	1815
Library type	University library
place	Vienna
ISIL	AT-UBTUW-HB (Vienna University of Technology, University Library, Main Library)
operator	technical University of Vienna
management	Beate Guba
Website	www.tuwien.at/bibliothek/

The TU Wien Library is the library of the TU Wien .

The library of the TU Wien was founded together with today's TU Wien in 1815 and has been located in a protruding building on Karlsplatz in Vienna since 1984 . The construction costs amounted to around 231 million schillings (around 18.8 million euros today). The majority of the stocks can be accessed directly in open access areas without the need to order. According to the faculties of the Vienna University of Technology, the focus is on scientific and technical topics. A stock of around 1.5 million media units and around 9700 specialist journals is made available on around 15,200 m² of usable space.

Locations

Main library

The main library building was built from 1984 to 1987 according to plans by the architects Justus Dahinden , Reinhard Gieselmann , Alexander Marchart and Roland Moebius . The so-called lion fountain by the artist Gero Schwanberg (born 1940) is located in the entrance hall . An 18-meter-high and 16 smaller owl statues by the architect Bruno Weber (1931–2011) are attached to the outer wall . These sculptures were created on site using a casting process.

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  Owl statues by the architect Bruno Weber

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  Owl at the main building of the TU Wien library

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  Main building of the library of the TU Vienna with transition to the Freihaus

Chemistry and engineering library

The chemistry and mechanical engineering library is the joint specialist library of the chemistry and mechanical engineering institutes of the Vienna University of Technology.

Library IT

In 1999, the integrated Aleph library system went into operation. In a joint project, the Central IT Service (ZID) and the library purchased a server (SUN Enterprise 450) and put Aleph into operation as a local system within the central Austrian network .

At the beginning of 2013, the CatalogPlus discovery system based on the Primo ( ExLibris ) software was put into operation.

Since 2015, the library of the Vienna University of Technology has been using Visual Library in the consortium solution of the Austrian Library Association as an institutional document repository called "reposiTUm" for the provision of university papers , open access publications and various periodicals of the Vienna University of Technology.

In August 2017, the library of the Vienna University of Technology switched to the cloud-based library software Alma together with six other libraries of the Austrian Library Association.

30th anniversary of the building

From November 13th to December 9th, 2017, the 30th anniversary of the building was celebrated with a light-space-sound installation.

literature

• Josef Wawrosch: University Library of the Technical University. In: Austrian National Library (Hrsg.): Handbook of historical book collections in Austria , Volume 1, Hildesheim 1994 ( online )
• Josef Wawrosch: From Austrian libraries. A new library building for the Vienna University of Technology . In: Communications from the Association of Austrian Librarians . No. 2/1983 (XXXVI. Volume), ZDB -ID 2018209-0 , pp. 36–43. (Online at ALO ).
• Robert Würzl: Start of construction on the new building for the main library of the Vienna University of Technology . In: Communications from the Association of Austrian Librarians . No. 4/1984 (XXXVII. Volume), ZDB-ID 2018209-0, p. 58 f. (Online at ALO ).
• Josef Wawrosch: The new university library of the Vienna University of Technology before completion and commissioning . In: Communications from the Association of Austrian Librarians . No. 1–2 / 1987 (XL. Volume), ZDB-ID 2018209-0, pp. 95–101. (Online at ALO ).
• Eva Ramminger (ed.): In the shadow of the owl: the university library of the Technical University of Vienna In: Sabine Seidler (ed.): Technology for people: 200 years of the Technical University of Vienna , Volume 12, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-205- 20115-1 .

Web links

Commons : University library of the Vienna University of Technology  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the TU Wien library
• Research portal of the Vienna University of Technology library
• Document repository of the Vienna University of Technology library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schwanberg Gero . In: Gerhard Habarta: Lexicon of the fantastic artists . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-8427-6 , p. 424 ( books.google.at ).
2. ^ The library building , website of the TU Wien Bibliothek, accessed on July 13, 2020.
3. ^ Martin Rathmayer, Peter Berger: Local library system of the TU Vienna . In: ZIDline , number 2, December 1999; Robert Würzl: Aleph 500 from the perspective of a librarian . In: ZIDline , number 2, December 1999.
4. ↑ TU Wien with CatalogPlus online , website of the OBVSG, accessed on February 14, 2018.
5. ↑ News on the publication server and retro digitization with the Visual Library , OBVSG website, accessed on February 14, 2018.
6. ^ Fritz Neumayer: ALMA - the new library software In: Freihaus: Magazine for employees of the TU Vienna , number 43, June 2017.
7. ^ First libraries live with Alma OBVSG website, accessed on February 14, 2018.
8. ↑ Search for truth: 30th anniversary of the TU Wien library building , TU Wien press release , accessed on November 23, 2017.

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 58 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 3 ″  E