Central library of the Swiss Alpine Club

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The central library of the Swiss Alpine Club is one of the largest libraries in the world for Alpine literature. It is incorporated into the Zurich Central Library as a depot library .

history

When it was founded in 1863, the Swiss Alpine Club SAC created a club archive to store acquired documents and maps. On August 22, 1874, the Assembly of Representatives decided to merge the archive with a «Glacier Library», which had existed since 1870. On July 21, 1877 the library was closed again, the books and writings were distributed to the sections except for a remainder.

On October 13, 1890, after a controversial discussion, the 27th Assembly of Delegates decided to create a “Library of the SAC” and to place it as a deposit in what was then the City Library of Zurich . In order to avoid confusion with the library of the Zurich Uto section , it was officially named the central library of the Swiss Alpine Club in 1914 . In the same year the Cantonal Library and the City Library of Zurich merged to form the Zurich Central Library.

Inventory and leadership

The library is owned by the SAC, which through a library commission takes care of new acquisitions and the maintenance of the holdings. Cataloging and lending is done by the Zurich Central Library, whose catalog lists all titles. The collection includes literature in German, English, French, Italian, Romansh and Spanish.

  • Current and historical tour, climbing, ski touring and hiking guides
  • Alpine magazines
  • Alpine specialist literature on metallurgy and rescue services, meteorology, altitude medicine, nutrition
  • Works on geography, geology, botany and zoology
  • Works on culture and folklore of the mountain world
  • Alpine photo books
  • Scientific literature
  • Alpine fiction, novels, travel and expedition reports, short stories and poetry collections
  • All publications of the SAC since it was founded, including a. Section magazines, statutes, annual reports, commemorative publications
  • A large collection of mountain panoramas, etc. a. from the estate of the panorama draftsmen Johann Jakob Müller-Wegmann , Melchior Ulrich and Heinrich Zeller-Horner
  • Donations and bequests from important alpinists, etc. a. WAB Coolidge , Marcel Kurz or Max Oechslin
  • Treasures from the early years of alpinism since the 17th century

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Sieber: The central library of the SAC. In: The Alps. 100 years of SAC 1863–1983, XXXIX - 1963.

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