University library of the University of Vienna
| University Library Vienna | |
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| founding | 1365 |
| Duration | > 7 million |
| Library type | University library |
| place | Vienna , Austria |
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AT-UBW-002 AT-UBW-071 |
| operator | University of Vienna |
| management | Maria Seissl |
| Website | bibliothek.univie.ac.at |
The University Library of the University of Vienna now includes the holdings of the main library and 40 departmental libraries at locations throughout Vienna. Organizationally, it is linked to the archive of the University of Vienna to form the “Service Facility (DLE) Library and Archive System” and serves as the information competence center of the University of Vienna for its researchers, teachers and students.
tasks
The university library is primarily responsible for ensuring that all university members are provided with the best possible and up-to-date information. With around 350 employees, it is also available to the interested public with information.
The use of literature in the reading rooms is possible for everyone without a special library card. A library card is required if books and other media want to be borrowed home. As a "digital library", the Vienna University Library provides direct access to information in electronic form (especially electronic books and journals, online catalogs and databases) via its website.
history
Duke Rudolf IV had already planned a publica libraria in the letter of March 12, 1365 , where the valuable posthumous books of the deceased university members were to be collected. Numerous legacies this collection was greatly increased in the sequence and the foundation of the old "Libreye" which was spatially associated with a student hospital. There were also libraries in the individual faculties and in the Herzogskolleg . From the 17th century on, interest in the old library with its manuscripts and incunabula declined, and the modern library in the Jesuit college came to the fore. In 1756 the university library was finally closed completely and the books (2,787 volumes) of the court library - headed by Gerard van Swieten at the time - were incorporated.
After the abolition of the Jesuit order (1773), the new academic library was built from the book collections of the five Lower Austrian colleges and a large number of duplicates in the court library and opened on May 13, 1777 ( Maria Theresa's birthday ) in the building of the academic college. The initial inventory comprised around 45,000 books, which was soon to be expanded considerably during the Josephine abolition of the monastery. Unlike its predecessors, the new library was now generally accessible. From 1827 to 1829 it received the classicist extension (Postgasse 9) to the Academic College, where it was to be housed until 1884. That year, the main library with around 300,000 volumes was relocated to the new main building on the Ring , built by architect Heinrich von Ferstel , where magazines for around 500,000 volumes were available. With an annual increase of up to 30,000 volumes, the space reserves were soon exhausted. As early as the beginning of the 20th century, the library director Wilhelm Haas , who introduced the printed catalogs at this time, fought to enlarge the library. The book stores had to be expanded again and again. In 1987 the stock number of 2 million was reached. Over the years, entire collections have also been incorporated, such as in 2004 from the Austrian Central Library for Physics .
The library in numbers
The University Library of Vienna is the largest academic library in Austria:
| Book inventory | 7,161,562 |
| Main library | 2,722,356 |
| Print magazines | |
| E-journals | 80,000 |
| E-books | 325,000 |
| Databases | 1,200 |
| Active borrowers | |
| OPAC search requests | 6,763,621 |
| u: search search queries | 9,034,035 |
| Books borrowed and renewed | 6,730,779 |
| Oldest book in stock | Pliny , Naturalis historia (1469) full digital version |
(Status: 2014)
literature
- Leopold Cornaro et al. a .: University Library Vienna. Main library. In: Austrian National Library (Hrsg.): Handbook of historical book collections in Austria , Volume 1, Hildesheim 1994, pp. 177-258 ( online , followed by 22 additional sections on the institute, specialist and faculty libraries )
- Gerhard Fritz: The lack of space in the university library . Published by the University Library of Vienna, library director Ilse Dosoudil. University Library Vienna, Vienna 1997
- Sieghard Neffe (Red.): The University Library Vienna. History, organization, use . 7th, improved edition. University Library, Vienna 1987
- The University Library of Vienna. A brief overview of the history, the current status and an outlook into the future of the University Library Vienna. Festschrift for the 625th anniversary of the University of Vienna . Notitiae Austriacae. Cultural magazine for the promotion of the Latin language, general and humanistic education, ZDB -ID 1038665-8 . Publishing house Dr. Hans Kutschera, Vienna 1990
- 390. Regulations for the use of the libraries of the University of Vienna . Academic year 2007/2008, issued on September 30, 2008, 46th issue ( PDF; 75 kB )
- Johann Winkler (librarian), Christian Beiler u. a. (Ed.), Leopold Cornaro (Illustrator): “Beyond the horizon”. Ceremony in tribute to Johann Winkler . Great formal key workers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Sn , Vienna 2009 ( online )
- history
- Hugo Alker: The building of the old Vienna University Library in Postgasse . Society for Friends of the Austrian National Library, Vienna 1955
- Walter Pongratz : History of the University Library Vienna . Böhlau, Vienna (among others) 1977, ISBN 3-205-07132-8
- Walter Pongratz: The University Library of Vienna during the Nazi era . In: Communications of the Association of Austrian Librarians , No. 2 (July) / 1988 (XLI. Year), ISSN 0042-3793 . Association of Austrian Librarians, Vienna 1988, pp. 57–75 ( online at ALO ).
- Friedrich Leithe : The Imperial and Royal University Library in Vienna. A historical-statistical sketch. Gerold, Vienna 1877.
- Ronald Zwanziger (Ed.): One hundred years of the Vienna University Library in the house on the Ring. 1884-1984 . Biblos-Schriften, Volume 126, ZDB -ID 501904-7 . Association of Austrian Librarians (VÖB), Vienna 1984
- Stefan Alker, Christiana Köstner: Identification of looted property. Acquisition policy at the University Library of Vienna during the Nazi era. Provenance Research Report . In: Nazi looted property in libraries. Search. Results. Perspectives . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 97–109
- Peter Malina: The University Library Vienna 1938–45 . Archive publishing house, Braunschweig 2012
- To sub-areas and special collections
- Hugo Alker (compilation), Leopold Cornaro (ed.): University Library Vienna - Catalog of incunabula . 2nd, revised and expanded edition. University Library Vienna, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-901739-00-9 .
See also
Web links
- University Library Vienna (Official Website)
- Kurt Mühlberger , Thomas Maisel: History of the University of Vienna at a glance . In: univie.ac.at . Vienna, March 1999.
- Digital long-term archiving at the University Library Vienna, Project Phaidra - Permanent Hosting, Archiving and Indexing of Digital Resources and Assets (German and English)
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 47 " N , 16 ° 21 ′ 35" E
Individual evidence
- ↑ About Us , accessed May 30, 2014
- ↑ R (oland) Z (wanziger): Vienna University Library : a ceremony for two million books . In: Communications from the Association of Austrian Librarians . No. 1–2 / 1987 (XL. Year), ZDB -ID 2018209-0 , p. 121. (Online at ALO ). Retrieved November 17, 2015.
- ↑ a b c E-Resource Folder Vienna University Library, as of May 2015
- ↑ Maria Seissl: The University Library Vienna in Figures 2014 . In: bibliothek.univie.ac.at , accessed on November 17, 2015.
Remarks
- ↑ Around the turn of the year 1896/97, a grille was installed over the glass ceiling to prevent the pieces of ice falling from higher parts of the building during the winter from breaking through the glass ceiling. - See: Local report. (...) Closure of the university library. In: Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt (No. 11602/1896), December 10, 1896, p. 7 middle. (Online at ANNO ).