Göttingen State and University Library

The Goettingen State and University Library ( SUB Göttingen short ) is the central university library of the Georg-August -Universität Göttingen. It is one of the largest academic libraries in Germany and decreases in the supply of literature on regional tasks that make them in 1949 received the additional designation State Library.

• 2.1 Departmental Libraries
• 2.2 Collections in the historic building
• 2.3 Central catalogs and services

History

The library was founded in 1734 and began to follow a major for the Library History Concept: Stocks were intended for the scientific use, the titles have not been acquired by the criterion of the actor value, but according to their content, and it became a regular acquisitions budget committed.

The curator Gerlach Adolph Freiherr von Münchhausen was Johann Matthias Gesner win as the first director and the extensive private library of Joachim Hinrich von Bülow as the basis solicit ( under the condition that the Göttingen University Library was to permanently bear the name of Bibliotheca Buloviana what is now apparently no longer the case). Due to their scheduled inventory build it quickly became the one of the most important libraries of Germany and prototype of a modern university library. Stocks were developed through an extensive catalog system.

Longtime conductor ( 1763-1812 ) was Christian Gottlob Heyne, at the same time Professor of Classical Philology. Heyne made ​​the library quickly became a nationally important and exemplary institution. He organized an inter-library loan for Foreign scholars and procured in addition to German publications also, correspondence with other scholars foreign literature, not only French, English and American, but also Arabic and Oriental literature. On taking office, the library had a stock of 60,000 volumes. At his death he had grown to 200,000 volumes. For comparison, in the University's library hall in 1795 counted only 20,000 volumes.

Housed the library was originally in the first colleges and library building of the University, in the upper floor of the central building around the inner courtyard.

In the 19th century the development of the library stagnated ( after the establishment of the Kingdom of Hanover now "Royal University Library " called ) because of insufficient budgets. The most famous librarians of the period 1830-1837 were the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.

1866 passed into the ownership of Prussia, the Library since the late 19th century in the evolving system of cross-regional literature supply ( distributed collection building, Prussian, later German, catalog, interlibrary loan ) was added.

In order for the Library among these tasks could meet, was built 1878-1882 at Prince Street of large extension, which also houses the Heyne - hall is located. The "Berliner " architectural style of this building structure put in its architecture significantly from the previous Hanoverian from buildings. He stands on the site of the old colleges and library building and its spacious atrium today.

Since the 1920s, the library took over numerous special collections, especially the Anglo-American cultural space and the natural sciences, which later came other subjects. As part of the collection of German prints, the SUB collects publications of the 18th century.

Directors of the SUB

Presence

The Goettingen State and University Library currently has a stock of about 7.7 million units including 5.7 million volumes, 1.6 million microforms, 11,000 print journals currently held, 318,000 maps and plans, more than 3,100 incunabula, 14,000 manuscripts, 400 estates as well as extensive digital holdings (as of 2013).

The original library building was built in the 18th century through to construction and expansion of the former Dominican monastery ( Pauline monastery ). In 1992, a work designed by the architect Dortmund Eckhardt Gerber new building, the Central Library, opened on the campus of the University of Göttingen Seven of place. The Historic Building now houses the special collections of the Library, the St. Paul's Church is used for exhibitions and events. In addition, there are six area libraries.

Departmental Libraries

• Chemistry Library ( BBC )
• Forestry Divisional Library ( BBF )
• Medical Library ( BBM)
• Departmental Library Physics ( BBP)
• Departmental Library of Economics and Social Sciences ( BBWiSo, in Oeconomicum )
• Departmental Library of Cultural Studies ( BBK)

Collections in historic buildings

• Department of Special Collections and Preservation Manuscripts, discounts, Rare and old prints, portraits ( including as relics: silhouettes collection Schubert)
• Map Collection

Central catalogs and services

The Goettingen State and University Library is also the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. It maintains the Lower Saxon Central catalog and the Göttingen Digitization Center. In the building of the Central Library, the Head Office of the Common Library Network ( GBV ) is housed. The Goettingen State and University offers numerous online services, for example, the Virtual Library of Anglo -American cultural space, and is instrumental in the development of new services such as the development of virtual research environments and scientific data infrastructures and services. The Goettingen State and University also operates the university's University Verlag Göttingen, the expanded steadily since its inception in 2003 and feels the Open Access principle obliged.

In 2002, the Goettingen State and was named Library of the Year.

Sponsor

Today's stocks would be unthinkable without sponsors and patrons. The obtained already in the 18th century image of the University of Göttingen also sparked a patronage of their alumni. To set up the American banker John Pierpont Morgan in 1912 with a $ 50,000 donation for the purchase of Anglo-Saxon literature allowed until 1967.