Central Library Zurich

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Central Library Zurich
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founding 1914
Duration > 6 million units (May 2014)
Library type Scientific library , canton library , city ​​library
place Zurich
ISIL CH-000008-6
management Christian Oesterheld
Website www.zb.uzh.ch

The Zurich Central Library is a public foundation and, as a university library, is an academic library. At the same time, it serves as a city and canton library to convey information to the general public. According to its statutes, it ensures, among other things, the most complete possible documentation and archiving of published and unpublished Zurich information carriers (Turicensia), i.e. information carriers that have appeared in the canton of Zurich, were written by Zurich residents , have Zurich or its residents on the subject.

history

It was founded in 1914. The name “Central Library” says it all , because in corpore it is the result of the amalgamation of the cantonal library and the city ​​library , which has been sought since the 1890s, and which now took on the tasks and functions of a scientific, university library.

Grossmünster Abbey Library

The beginnings of Zurich library history - and with it that of the central library - go back to the early Middle Ages with the library of the Zurich Canons' Monastery of St. Felix and Regula ( Grossmünster ), which was first documented in 1259 . Most of the inventory of liturgical works, perhaps also other things, was lost with the book storm from September 17 to October 7, 1525. The monastery library as such still existed, but the number of existing works had shrunk to only 470 volumes. From 1532 the Alsatian humanist Konrad Pellikan campaigned for the monastery library and consistently built it up with the books from church property in Zurich and the surrounding area and the private library Huldrych Zwingli, which the monastery bought for 200 pounds . His catalog , which was kept up to 1551, shows around 770 volumes ( manuscripts and prints ) with around 1100 titles, of which around 800 titles could be found in the holdings of the Zurich Central Library. Acquisitions and donations expanded the holdings over the next three centuries. In 1831 the Canons' Monastery was dissolved.

Donation book of the civil library, started in 1629

Civil library and city library

Johann Melchior Füssli: Civil library in the Wasserkirche, 1719

On February 6, 1629, four young Zurich merchants decided to found a library society with the aim of setting up a civil library for the patrician sons of the city of Zurich - to a certain extent as a counterpart to that of the Canon Monastery, which was primarily only open to the members of the chapter . In 1634 the Bibliotheca nova Tigurinorum publico-privata , which was initially housed in private rooms, opened its doors in the late Gothic Wasserkirche , a building that had been used as a warehouse since the Reformation . The library's holdings grew rapidly, not least due to the lively donation activity of Zurich's citizens and gifts from guests traveling through. Within just a few years, the library with its books and coins, its collection of art and natural objects developed into the treasure house and temple of scholars in Zurich, where, among other things, the members of the Zurich learned societies met. Handwritten rules governed the election, remuneration and duties of the librarian and his assistants, as well as all questions relating to the use of books and the library building. In the donation book, new additions were noted down to the last detail. The example of Zurich Civil library made school: in 1632 the extensive library reached the French diplomat and scholar Jacques Bongars in the Bernese Liberey where they part of today Burgerbibliothek is. The civil library in Schaffhausen was opened in 1636 . In 1660, members of the Musikkollegium established a civil library in Winterthur .

The Zurich Civil Library claimed the role of a universal collection that encompasses all areas of knowledge. It was a center of educated exchange that had been taking place since the founding of the Natural Research Society by the Canons Johannes Gessner (1746), the Medical-Surgical Library Society by the Canons Johann Heinrich Rahn (1780), the Legal Library Society ( 1823) and the Antiquarian Society ( 1832) was further promoted by Ferdinand Keller . As the very first Swiss library, the so-called city library under Johann Jakob Bodmer published a printed catalog of its holdings in 1744; the last catalog from 1900/01 was already 12 volumes. Between 1899 and 1907 Wilhelm Wyss created a keyword catalog for the first time . Ricarda Huch , a historian and writer who did her doctorate at the University of Zurich, worked at the city library from 1891 to 1894.

The Wasserkirche as a city library. Drawing by Franz Hegi , 1845

Cantonal library, central and university library

The reason for the establishment of a "library of the Cantonal educational institutions", the premises of which were initially in the back office building of the former Augustinian monastery, from 1855 in the old coin building and finally from 1873 in the preacher's choir, were the long and ultimately insoluble quarrels between the members of the still young university and the city library that emerged from the civil library founded in 1634.

The latter insisted on their traditional admission regulations vis-à-vis the professors who came from abroad, which allowed access to the library practically exclusively to citizens of Zurich. This was an unacceptable situation for the university; the founding of the cantonal library, which was entrusted with the tasks of a scientific library, was the result. The foundation of the cantonal library founded in 1835 was formed by the library of the dissolved canon monastery, which contains around 3500 volumes with 14,000 titles. In addition, according to the decision of the government council, the holdings of the university established in 1833 (approx. 340 volumes), the grammar school library established in 1827 with predominantly theological and philosophical writings (approx. 1700 volumes), the industrial school (a few titles) and the veterinary school (approx. 110 volumes) were added ). In 1863, the canton library took over the extensive library of the Rheinau Benedictine monastery , which was founded in 778 and which had been closed the year before, with 12,000 volumes (including 200 parchment and 230 modern paper manuscripts, over 300 incunabula and printed matter from theology, philosophy and history).

“Old Reading Room”, Zurich Central Library 1917, with the partially preserved Art Nouveau wooden fittings

Towards the end of the 19th century the call for a central library became louder and louder. The timing seemed right, because both the city and cantonal libraries suffered from a notorious lack of space. Finally, Hermann Escher (1857–1938), head of the city library since 1887 and also linked to the cantonal library through his seat on the supervisory committee, energetically pushed ahead with the plan for a central library. The first important result of these efforts was the Alphabetical Central Catalog, which has been available to the public since 1901 and which recorded the holdings of all the libraries in the city of Zurich. In 1914, the voters of the city and canton of Zurich voted with a clear majority for the merger of the city and canton library. With the help of generous private funds, the central library opened its doors in 1917 as a public foundation - with the city and canton equally responsible - under the direction of Hermann Escher. At the new location close to the university, it positioned itself as the main university library and "central unit of literature supply for the University of Zurich" with a focus on social sciences and humanities. About eighty years later, after years of acute lack of space and relocation to external storage facilities, the central library moved into the premises of the extension built between 1990 and 1994 on the site of the old storage facility on Zähringerplatz. Since then, the old building, which was rebuilt and renovated in 1995, has housed the unique holdings of the special collections (manuscript department, graphic collection, map collection, old prints, turicensia), with the exception of the music department, which is housed in the preacher's choir. In 2016, the central library moved a large part of its magazine collection to the cooperative storage library in Büron, which is maintained jointly by several libraries and deduplicated to one copy per magazine volume .

As a university library, the central library is part of a multi-layered library system: It works with the ETH library and the main library of the University of Zurich am Irchel, as well as with numerous libraries of the NEBIS network. The university's specialized specialist and institute libraries are also included. The exchange is to be renewed and strengthened in the future by the consolidation proposed by the university for economic, spatial planning and library-infrastructure reasons at a new location in the university quarter. The report on the consultation of the underlying concept report with statements and results has been published since March 2019. As part of the project, the Central Library and the University of Zurich have published the principles of their planned close cooperation. As one of a total of 38 university libraries in Switzerland, the central library is part of the Swiss Library Network for Education and Research (SLiNER) , which, under the joint umbrella of swissuniversities, the committees of the conference of university libraries in Switzerland , previously separated according to type of university , the working group of the libraries of the chamber Universities of education and the library expert group of the Chamber of Universities of Applied Sciences has replaced swissuniversities . The central library is also a shareholder and partner of the Swiss Library Service Platform , which, as a cooperative service company of the Swiss universities, offers joint services for the scientific libraries in Switzerland.

There are fee-based services available in the areas of purchasing digital copies (storage library , e-books on demand ) and interlibrary loan .

Building history

Main entrance in the old building

Today's central library consists of four buildings: the preacher's choir, the front building of the old building, and the reading room and administration wing built in 1994. The preacher's choir was built in two stages in Gothic style in 1325 and 1350 and was part of the preacher's monastery . The heyday in the early 14th century allowed the Dominicans to tackle a demanding building project with the choir. However, the political unrest that began in the middle of the 14th century interrupted the building project several times and the choir was finally completed with a clearly reduced standard.

In the course of the Reformation at the beginning of the 16th century, the choir, the convent building and the church were separated from each other and each used for different purposes: The convent building was modeled into a hospital facility and the church in the 17th century into an ideal building of the Reformed Orthodoxy. The preacher's choir was profaned and underwent several changes: in the 17th century it was used as a granary and also housed the hospital chapel. With the renovation from 1871 to 1873 it got its present appearance and served as a canton library. The preacher's church tower was built in 1900 by city architect Gustav Gull . Its pointed helmet reconstructs the end of the old Grossmünster towers before 1763 and at 97 meters is still the highest church tower in the city of Zurich. The convent building of the former preacher monastery, which served as a hospital until 1840 and then as a poor house, burned down in 1887. The resulting wasteland was suitable as the location of the central library due to its central location and proximity to the university.

In the years 1914–1917, the newly established central library was built on the site by the canton's master builder Hermann Fietz (1869–1931). The contemporary reinforced concrete construction was completed by a historicizing sandstone facade, which Hermann Fietz deliberately kept in an objective and reserved aesthetic. The front facade of the building shows subtle references to the function of the building as a library. The staircase with the canopy above it and supported by Doric columns is the central design element of the facade. Two statues have stood on the canopy of the main entrance since 1917. These show the natural scientist Conrad Gessner (1516–1565) and the historian and writer Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698–1783). The statues come from the Zurich sculptor Hans Gisler (1889–1972). They were donated in 1917 by Gustav Adolf Tobler , an ETH professor and a generous sponsor of the central library. In 1928 they had to be replaced because the Corbières sandstone used had become brittle. The statues were therefore redesigned by Gisler in firmer limestone from Reffroy, France. A putto figure was attached to the front of the canopy . This - standing on the head of an owl with a stack of books under its arm - symbolizes the longing for knowledge and points to the importance of the building as a «house of wisdom». The facade of the old building is adorned with two bas-reliefs by the Lenzburg sculptor Arnold Hünerwadel (1877–1945). The lower one shows the Zurich coat of arms, which is wreathed by oak leaves and flanked by two lions with swords and quills. In the round gable, the same female figure sits twice in an ancient pose: once with a torch and once undressed. The figure represents “science as a light source and revelator”, according to the architect Hermann Fietz.

Internal staircase in the new building (2012), in front of the installation of the user access to the mezzanine

Due to the rapidly growing space requirements of the library inventory, the discussion about an extension was launched in the 1970s. In 1976 the city council and government council approved a limited architecture competition to which 14 architecture firms were invited. The jury - in which Bruno Giacometti also sat - approved the design by the Eggimann brothers. Compared to the fallow land in 1914, the area had meanwhile turned into a complex building site. So many considerations and objections related to the preservation of historical monuments and urban development had to be taken into account. The competition specifications also required that the main building of the old building be integrated into the extension and that the preacher's choir be released.

In 1990, after the Zurich electorate approved the loan for the extension, construction of the extension began. The architecture of the new building takes up central motifs of the old building. The division of functions into magazine, reading area and administration, which was already established during the construction of 1917, is taken over and additionally accentuated. A separate building was built on Seilergraben for the administration and the magazines were built under the reading room. The central motif of the staircase was also continued in the new reading room. A large exposed staircase connects all floors and becomes the central element of the spatial structure. The new building led to a comprehensive reorganization of the rooms in the existing old building and the preacher's choir. The old building - originally the administration building - is now home to the special collections and was thus largely made accessible to the public. A remnant of the old reading room, which was partially destroyed during the renovation, was preserved at the request of the Zurich public and integrated into the manuscript reading room. Today the preacher's choir houses the music collection and an exhibition room, the so-called “treasure chamber”.

Duration

At the beginning of 2014, the Central Library's holdings comprised approximately 6.3 million items, including

  • 4.3 million books and magazine volumes
  • 980,000 graphic sheets and photographs
  • 208,500 manuscripts
  • 258,000 geographic maps
  • 565,000 microforms (1.5 million titles)
  • 48,000 audiovisual media
  • 201,000 sheet music prints
  • 8'700 current journal titles
  • 70,800 electronic journal titles
  • 145 current Turicensia newspapers

The Central Library is a member of the Informationsverbund Deutschschweiz (IDS), which guarantees access to all libraries with a single library card. The holdings of the Central Library, as well as those of the ETH Library in Zurich and over 140 other Swiss libraries, can be researched using the shared online catalog NEBIS . NEBIS has around 10.5 million titles. The older holdings from the years 1465 to 1989 were completely re-cataloged in 2009, but without key words, and can also be found via NEBIS. The subject catalog (SWK) can be used for thematic research on these holdings up to 1989 . The electronic journals can be accessed via the electronic journals library (EZB). The central library is part of the network of the University of Zurich , giving its students and staff access to full-text databases and bibliographical offers . In 2014 she joined the Cooperative Storage Library Switzerland .

Special stocks

In addition to the valuable old holdings and the general holdings growing from the current collection profile, the central library is characterized by its special holdings. In the research portal of the central library, the individual holdings from 1992 onwards can be searched using a filter.

Library Oskar R. Schlag

In 1990 the central library received the esoteric library of the psychotherapist and graphologist Oskar Rudolf Schlag (1907–1990), which is still located in his former home, as a gift. Since the early 1930s, Schlag collected books and documents from the secret science disciplines and thus established one of the world's most important libraries in the field of esotericism.

North American Library NAB

The Central Library has held a special collection on North American literature since 1972 . Founded by the English Department of the University of Zurich, it has been officially managed as a depot of the central library since 1994. The collection consists of around 100,000 individual works and around 280 current journals (as of May 2016). A representative selection of US and Canadian titles, both primary and secondary literature , is collected . The titles can be found in the research portal and are listed in the NAB card catalog on site.

Study library on the history of the labor movement

The Study Library on the History of the Labor Movement (SGA) consists of around 50,000 monographs and an extensive collection of small letters. It covers the topics of early socialism , the labor movement , anti-fascist resistance, exile literature and the new social movements . The collection built up by the bookseller Theo Pinkus was donated to the Zurich Central Library in 2001.

Fennica

The Swiss Association of Friends of Finland (SVFF) founded the Bibliotheca Fennica in 1955. The books are acquired and set up by the association, but then become the property of the ZB. The approximately 7,000 titles (including magazines, yearbooks and approx. 120 DVDs) are divided into the areas of Finnish fiction (including books for children and young people), language and literature , history , folklore , regional studies , visual arts , music and architecture . Literature is collected in the national languages ​​Finnish and Swedish, but also in translations.

Russian library

Emerging from the “Russian Library Zurich” (RBC) association and owned by the ZB since 2002, the RBC comprises a wide selection of original and translated fiction from the 19th and 20th centuries (exile and Soviet literature). The collection consists of approx. 6000 monographs and journals.

Special collections

The central library houses six special collections: the graphic collection, the manuscript section, the map collection, the music section, the collection of old prints and turicensia. Many of the holdings in these collections go back to the predecessor libraries of the Central Library and are indexed in the electronic catalog, in special catalogs (e.g. manuscript catalog of the manuscript and music department) as well as in estate directories or various printed catalogs.

Graphic collection and photo archive

The graphic collection was established in 1854 with the bequest of the Zurich paper manufacturer Leonhard Ziegler (1749–1800). This "icon library" - consisting of more than 60,000 individual sheets - formed the basis of the collection, which also contained portraits and sheets from the civil library and was expanded with further donations and bequests from Zurich collectors. The collection now houses 220,000 graphic sheets from the 15th to 20th centuries, 162,000 postcards, 10,000 photochroms , illustrated single-sheet prints, various drawings, history sheets , militaria, traditional costumes, caricatures, the drawings and copperplate engravings by the Zurich painter and Stecher's Conrad Meyer , the complete graphic works of Salomon Gessner , Daniel Chodowiecki and Franz Hegi as well as the artistic legacies of Otto Baumberger , Oskar Dalvit , Max Hunziker , Gottfried Keller , Warja Lavater , Gregor Rabinovitch and Johann Rudolf Rahn . It also manages the collection of paintings in the central library, which primarily includes portraits of Zurich city personalities from the 16th to 19th centuries. Digitized holdings can be accessed via the online catalog.

Manuscript Department

As one of the first official acts of Director Paul Scherrer, a separate department was set up in 1964 for the manuscripts that have been continuously collected since the time of the monastery library, the civil library , and the city and central library. It houses around 650 medieval as well as Hebrew and Oriental manuscripts. Important collections of the manuscript department include the Wickiana (ZBZ manuscripts Ms F 12-F 35) consisting of the single-sheet prints and leaflets compiled by Johann Jakob Wick (1522–1588), the Thesaurus Hottingerianus (ZBZ manuscripts Ms F 36 – Ms F 90) with several thousand documents and copies from the 16th and 17th centuries by Johann Heinrich Hottinger as well as the Simler letter collection on church history from the 16th to 18th centuries . Century (ZBZ Ms S 1 – Ms S 266), an equally extensive compilation of documents and copies of the Zurich alumni inspector Johann Jakob Simmler (1716–1788). The family archives of the Zurich patriciate as well as the exegeses, chronicles , personal writings and, in some cases, extensive correspondence from theologians and scholars, among others, are of particular value for Zurich's cultural history, especially from the 16th to 18th centuries . In addition, the manuscript department looks after more than 500 mostly modern estates of writers and artists (including Johann Jakob Bodmer , Johann Jakob Breitinger , Armin Bollinger , Elias Canetti , Heinrich Escher-Landolt , David Hess , Gottfried Keller , Oskar Kokoschka , Johann Caspar Lavater , Conrad Ferdinand Meyer , Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi ) as well as extensive collections of letters and autographs , publishers' archives, society and guild archives . Digitized holdings can be accessed via e-codices and e-manuscripta .

Maps and Panoramas Department

The map collection is one of the largest of its kind. It has a holdings of 320,000 map sheets from the early modern period to the present day. These include around 1,200 manuscript maps, topographic maps of all European and many non-European countries, city maps and various military and sea maps. The inventory also includes around 4,000 atlases . The majority of the collection goes back to the civil library and the city library. The latter was able to expand its holdings considerably through generous donations from private collectors. With the takeover of the maps from the map association, the city library set up its own map collection, which was transferred to the central library in 1917. Digitized maps can be accessed via the online catalog and the Swiss map portal.

Music department

Musical collection

In 1971 the special collections were expanded to include the music department on the initiative of Director Paul Scherrer and his successor Hans Baer. Initially housed in the premises of the main building, it is now in the choir of the Predigerkirche, the former seat of the cantonal library. In addition to printed sheet music and sound carriers, it preserves, among other things, one of the largest Wagneriana collections in the world, more than 190 bequests from composers, musicians and musicologists, as well as various publishing houses and corporate archives. Furthermore, in 1978 the music department took over the old music library of the Zurich Opera House with opera and operetta sheet music from the 19th and early 20th centuries (including various scores and orchestral materials used for world premieres), and in 1999 the old music collections of the Conservatory and the Tonhalle, among others with First and early editions of works by Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt . The library of the Allgemeine Musik-Gesellschaft Zürich is also located in the music department as a permanent deposit, with a large number of sacred and secular vocal and instrumental music from the 17th and 18th centuries (mostly from Italian, Dutch and German publishers) as well as an extensive one Counting collection of performance materials from the 19th century.

Department of old prints and rarities

The Alte Drucke Collection looks after the old and rare printed matter in the Zurich Central Library. This includes around 1,600 incunabula and prints from the 16th century, with a focus on publications that appeared for the first time in Zurich - or a collection of French revolutionary pamphlets by Paul Usteri (1768–1831). The majority of these rarities already come from the historical book holdings of the civil library as well as the city and canton library and the collections that have been incorporated into them. The holdings include private libraries of important Zurich personalities and scholars, including those of Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531), Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575), Rudolph Gwalther (1519–1586) and Conrad Gessner (1516–1565). The digitized part of the inventory can be accessed via the e-rara.ch platform .

Turicensia Department

The Turicensia Collection includes media on Zurich topics as well as publications by Zurich authors or those with Zurich imprint . The so-called gray literature (club publications, conference papers, annual reports of important Zurich institutions, community chronicles, etc.) and the dissertation and post-doctoral theses of the University of Zurich also belong to the Turicensia collection. Another core task of the Turicensia department is the editing of the Zurich bibliography and the Gottfried Keller bibliography as well as the management of important Zurich publishing house archives. Regular exhibitions are shown in the Turicensia themed room, and those interested can find a wealth of non-fiction books on Zurich topics and fiction by Zurich authors in the "Turicensia Lounge" reference library. Magazines and regional / local newspapers complete the offer of the Turicensia Lounge.

Society of Friends of the Central Library Zurich (GFZB)

The Society of Friends of the Zurich Central Library (GFZB) was founded in 1917. Its members enjoy various perks, including:

  • Invitations to ZB events.
  • Discounts on GFZB publications.
  • Introduction to research in the various ZB systems.
  • New members receive a gift

The company supports the implementation of projects, among other things, to preserve and supplement precious stocks for which no public funds are available.

literature

  • Günter Birkner: The music department of the central library. Buchdruckerei an der Sihl, Zurich 1977 (= Zurich paperback to 1978 ).
  • Jean-Pierre Bodmer: The manuscript department of the central library in Zurich. Buchdruckerei an der Sihl, Zurich 1972 ( Zürcher Taschenbuch for 1973 ).
  • Jean-Pierre Bodmer, Martin Germann: Cantonal Library Zurich 1835–1915. Zurich Central Library, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-299-00006-3 .
  • Hermann Escher, Hermann Fietz: History and description of the building of the central library. Beer, Zurich 1918 ( New Year's Gazette of the Zurich Central Library, No. 3).
  • Hermann Escher: History of the city library. Beer, Zurich 1922 ( New Year's sheet of the Zurich Central Library, No. 4–5).
  • Martin Germann : The Reformed Abbey Library at Großmünster Zurich in the 16th century and the beginnings of the modern bibliography: Reconstruction of the book inventory and its origin, the book layout and the library room, with an edition of the library catalog from 1532/1551 by Conrad Pellikan. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1994 ( contributions to books and libraries; 34), ISBN 3-447-03482-3 .
  • Hans-Peter Höhener: The map collection of the Zurich Central Library, in: Zürcher Taschenbuch (1977).
  • Hans-Peter Höhener: The map collection of the Zurich Central Library. In: Cartographic Collections in Switzerland. 2004. Online publication: Map Librarians Working Group ( URL ).
  • Roland Mathys (ed.): The central library is building. Zurich Central Library, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-299-00022-5 .
  • Christine Senser: The libraries of Switzerland. Reichert, Wiesbaden 1991, ISBN 3-88226-496-9 (= elements of the book and library system, vol. 13).
  • Bruno Weber: The graphic collection of the Zurich Central Library. In: Zürcher Taschenbuch, 95 (1975), pp. 108–147.
  • Bruno Weber: Signs of the times. From the treasuries of the Zurich Central Library. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85823-855-4 .
  • Rea Brändle, Markus Brühlmeier, Adrian Knoepfli, Mario König , Verena Rothenbühler: Knowledge in the center. 100 years of the Zurich Central Library. Chronos, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-0340-1376-5 . ( Online )
  • Alice Keller, Susanne Uhl (Ed.): Libraries of Switzerland. Innovation through cooperation. Festschrift for Susanna Bliggenstorfer on the occasion of her resignation as director of the Zurich Central Library. De Gruyter / Saur, Berlin / Boston, 2018 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Zurich Central Library  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Statutes of the Zurich Central Library (from January 23 / May 15, 2013) 1, 2 . In: Government Council and City Council of Zurich (ed.): Zurich Collection of Laws 432.211 . ( zh.ch [PDF]).
  2. ↑ Contract between the Canton of Zurich and the City of Zurich regarding the establishment of a central library as a public foundation (foundation contract) , dated November 26 / December 16, 1910, accessed April 29, 2014.
  3. ↑ Martin Germann: The Reformed Abbey Library at the Großmünster Zurich in the 16th century and the beginnings of the modern bibliography: Reconstruction of the book inventory and its origin, the book layout and the library room, with an edition of the library catalog from 1532/1551 by Conrad Pellikan. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1994 ( contributions to books and libraries; 34), ISBN 3-447-03482-3
  4. ↑ Johann Heinrich Ulrich: Bibliotheca nova Tigurinorum publico-privata selectiorum vararium linguarum, artium & scientiarum librorum ... =: This is Newe Bibliothec, which is common to an honest citizen and creates the praiseworthy place of Zürych of the best and extravagant books . Zurich 1629 ( e-rara.ch ).
  5. ↑ In Zurich's first museum. Central library reconstructs the art chamber of the former citizens' library. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 11, 2016, p. 20
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  8. ^ Ricarda Huch: Spring in Switzerland . Reclam, Ditzingen 1982, p. 46-47 .
  9. ^ Jean-Pierre Bodmer, Martin Germann: Cantonal Library Zurich 1835–1915. Zurich Central Library, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-299-00006-3 .
  10. ↑ Wilfried Lochbühler: Three layers between diversification and cooperation. The library system of the University of Zurich . In: Konstanze Söllner and Wilfried Sühl-Strohmenger (eds.): Handbook of University Library Systems, pp. 112-120 . Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin, Boston 2014, p. 113 , doi : 10.1515 / 9783110310092-013 .
  11. ↑ Christian Oesterheld: The scientific libraries of Switzerland between the supply of literature and information, services for studies, research and education and cultural mandate: a position assessment 2018. In: Alice Keller and Susanne Uhl (eds.): Libraries of Switzerland: Innovation through cooperation: Festschrift for Susanna Bliggenstorfer on the occasion of her resignation as director of the Zurich Central Library. De Gruyter / Saur, Berlin / Boston 2018, p. 32-34 , doi : 10.1515 / 9783110553796-001 .
  12. ^ Roland Mathys (ed.): The central library builds. Zurich Central Library, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-299-00022-5 .
  13. ^ Martin Sturzenegger: University of Zurich wants to close libraries . In: Tages-Anzeiger . April 23, 2018 ( tagesanzeiger.ch ).
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  17. ↑ Results. April 2, 2019, accessed April 2, 2019 .
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  19. ^ University of Zurich: Principles for cooperation between UBZH and ZB (working paper) . 18th December 2019.
  20. ↑ swissuniversities: Three become one - Network SLiNER founded on April 4, 2019. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .
  21. ↑ See Swiss Library Network for Education and Research. Mission and tasks . Retrieved February 6, 2020
  22. ↑ See slsp.ch
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