Gunnerus Library
The Gunnerus library in Trondheim is Norway's oldest scientific library. It was founded in 1768 as a library, the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences ( DKNVS ). The library is named after Bishop Johan Ernst Gunnerus.
Due to its important historical collections from the 18th century, the library Gunnerus one of the major research libraries in Scandinavia. The Gunnerus library that is part of the NTNU University Library, has its professional focus in archeology and the natural and cultural history. The library further has a large inventory of genealogy and local history, which is situated in the public area of the library and is used extensively by local historians. Mainly, the library is, however, attended by researchers and students at NTNU.
The Gunnerus library is located in Kalvskinnet district. There she is both spatially to find in the bars of DKNVS from the years 1866 and an annex was built in 1939 and in a building from the year 1975.
The collection of the library contains in the Department of Special Collections photographs, maps and manuscripts. In stock the subject areas of the Museum of Natural History and Archaeology, archeology, biology, zoology and history are also represented, as well as an impressive collection of books from the 15th century and continually. Additional the library has an extensive book collection which dates from the Norwegian legal deposit and revised materials from the last hundred years.
History
As a founding year for the Gunnerus library is the 1768. Presented in this The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences ( DKNVS ) Peter Daniel Baade as a librarian. This should convey the Library of the DKNVS outwardly. Baade's tenure was short-lived. Just one month after his appointment, he was called as a parish pastor after Sjælland in Denmark. For this reason, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, co-founder of the company, the librarian of the Company, a position which he held until his death in 1773. At this time, the library was in the house of Gunnerus in Dronningens gate.
In the early statutes of the company was established, that those who have been elected as members of society, either pay 10 rix-dollars for the purchase of books or had to pass two books that have the same value, the library. In this way, started a book collection to build. Also testamentary reductions, such as by Gerhard Schøning and Christopher Hammer, led to the expansion of the library's collection.
At the beginning of the library was a research library for the members of DKNVS, but gradually they could also be used by non-members. Until 1874, emphasis was placed on the inventory build-up in general scientific literature, this changed, however, after a reform of society this year. From then on, the collection focused on literature from the fields of botany, zoology, archeology and history.
The library history is closely connected with the Museum, now the Museum of Natural History and Archaeology. Both were part of the 1968 University of Trondheim. The Community Library of The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences, the Museum and the Norwegian Teachers College was founded in 1974.
As part of the legal deposit scheme the library received in 1939 the requisition for Norwegian prints. This law led to The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences in Trondheim and the library of mountains museum had the right to demand respectively one copy of each book of a Norwegian publisher. With a new law on legal deposit in 1989, was selbige extended to all university libraries, including the Gunnerus library.
From 2007 on, not all required copies are received by the Gunnerus library. These are now being distributed to the various branch libraries NTNU University Library with their specific areas of expertise.
Name
Beginning with the 1768 got the library name, the library of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences. In 1974 came the merger of Gunnerus library and the library of the Norwegian Teacher high school. This was called the Community Library The Royal Society of Sciences, the Museum and the Norwegian Teacher high school. In 1984 it was officially named the University Library in Trondheim.
In 1996, the Engineering and Natural Sciences University of Norway was founded, the university library was a part of this in January 1997. The Old Library The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences was to a section library and was named Gunnerus library.