Walter Bauhuis

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Walter Bauhuis (born December 10, 1905 in Bocholt ; † June 26, 1961 in Münster ) was a German librarian and until 1961 head of the University and State Library of Münster .

Life

Bauhuis studied chemistry, physics and mathematics in Münster, Bonn and Munich and received his doctorate in Münster in 1930. He passed the specialist examination as a librarian and worked at the library of the Technical University in Berlin-Charlottenburg , at the Berlin University Library and at the University and State Library in Strasbourg. After the Second World War he was a library councilor at the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart before moving to Heidelberg in 1949 .

From 1952 to 1953 he was acting head of the Heidelberg University Library . In 1957 Bauhuis moved to Münster, where he became the library director of the university library. His merits were in the development of German central catalogs in the 1950s.

Bauhuis was married to Dorothee Glückert.

Works and essays (selection)

  • About the dissolution of metals in acids with special consideration of the influence of neutral salts. Dissertation, Münster 1930.
  • The keyword catalog as a second subject catalog . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, Vol. 58 (1944), pp. 405-412.
  • Catalog problems and solutions. In: Central Journal for Libraries. Volume 61, 1947. Pages 107-121.
  • The Stuttgart title prints. In: Central Journal for Libraries. Volume 63, 1949. Pages 97-109.
  • The dissertation problem. Heidelberg 1950.
  • Community library duties. In: Central Journal for Libraries. Volume 64, 1950. Pages 437-445.
  • The structure of a central catalog. Heidelberg 1952.
  • Central catalogs - principles and construction proposals. In: Zentralblatt für das Bibliothekwesen. Leipzig 1953. Pages 81–102.
  • Catalog reforms. In: Journal of Librarianship and Bibliography. 1954.
  • Are dissertations a book trade? Heidelberg 1954.
  • Acquisitions, cataloging, and storage in American academic libraries. 1956.
  • Problems of a large library, shown at Harvard University Library. In: Zentralblatt für das Bibliothekwesen. Leipzig 1957.
  • On the current situation of the Münster University Library. Munster 1957.
  • The Münster University Library in 1957/58 and 1958/59. Munster 1959.
  • On the question of training for the service of academic libraries. Munster 1960.
  • With Rudolf Juchhoff : Warning about public catalogs . Munster 1960.
  • Old and new ideas in library construction . In: Ewald Lissberger (ed.): In libro humanitas. Festschrift for Wilhelm Hoffmann for his 60th birthday, April 21, 1961 , Stuttgart: Klett 1962, pp. 72–82.

literature

  • Ernst Zunker : Walter Bauhuis and the central catalogs. Libri, Volume 12, Issue 1 (1962), pages 51-55.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bauhuis, Dorothee
personal data
SURNAME Bauhuis, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Bocholt
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1961
Place of death Muenster