Basel University Library

The University Library of Basel (official name: Public Library of the University of Basel, abbreviated UB ) is the central library of the University of Basel.

Tasks

The University Library collects no technical limitation, but placing emphasis on the humanities, social and natural sciences and medicine. If there is scientific interest in non-scientific literature, the latter is also included. Together with the Institute libraries, it is responsible for the provision of literature of teaching and research in higher education.

She is also a library of Canton Basel-Stadt. In this sense, it collects all Basiliensia (written by Baslern prints and manuscripts, as well as all over Basel and Basel ), so to speak, an informal Deposit legal ( ie the publishers statutory obligatory deposit of copies ).

Also at the Basel University Library include the UB and the UB Medical Economics - SWA with the Swiss Business Archives. Thanks to the combination of many departmental libraries are affiliated with the Information Network of German Switzerland (IDS ).

History

1471 first attested in writing, the library has 1559 its first catalog in strip form and can adjust in 1866 their first full-time librarian. 1889, the catalog of band shape is changed to card form. 1896 can be moved into the first own library building and in 1939 started with the subject catalog.

The new building will be constructed on the existing site between 1962 and 1968 and the Medical Library as a branch of the University Library at the University Hospital Basel (formerly Kantonsspital Basel) founded in 1978.

The computer is used from 1981 to the Cataloguing and Acquisitions and 1985, the first database information is furnished. 1988 following the establishment of the OPAC ( Online Public Access Catalog) and the Library of Business and Economics Centre ( VVC ), together with the Swiss Business Archives ( SWA) will open as branches of the University Library.

From 1995 to automate the checkout and the Freihandmagazin is put into operation takes place. In addition, the first website was launched. Internet stations in the audience will be established in 1997.

In 1999, with the establishment of the Information Network of German Switzerland (IDS ) and the commissioning of the integrated library system Aleph start to the composite oriented future, which in 2004 and 2005 further intensified with the merger of user index and the launch of the IDS - courier for the inter-university inter-library loan in German-speaking Switzerland been.

Stock

Overall, the Basel University Library has over seven million media units, of which about 660,000 annually media be borrowed. The stock is growing by about 125,000 units. Thus, the library is one of the largest in Switzerland.

Additionally the 1471 first authenticated library a wealth of old stock with extensive historical collections of around 175,000 medieval manuscripts, early printed books, music, maps and portraits, mainly of the Basel monasteries and the University of Basel. Your holdings are supplemented by the institute libraries of the university, the General Libraries of the GGG (Society for the good and profit of Basel ) and a number of special libraries.

Use and Catalog

Catalogs

IDS Basel Bern, Swissbib, Dissertation catalog, HAN Union Catalogue of Manuscripts, Archives and Private Collections.

Use

The University Library of Basel has both a free-hand magazine, as well as a closed magazine. Some books can be located in semester sets. The library is open to all persons 14 years and to all natural and legal persons with residential or business domicile in Switzerland, the cross-border region as well as the members of the University of Basel and the EUCOR universities. The registration and use is free is not provided for otherwise. The lending is done via online order form, if the book is already on loan or is in closed stacks, or the direct lending from the open stacks.

Others

In Nietzsche research the University Library of Basel is considered the second most important collection point after the Weimar Nietzsche Archive, since this directory contains most of the sources of the " Basel Nietzsche - interpretation " in the wake of Franz Overbeck.