Potsdam University Library
The Potsdam University Library is the largest academic library in the country Brandenburg and a central infrastructure facility. It supplies researchers, faculty and students of the University of Potsdam with literature and other information resources. Citizens of the region and members of other Potsdam and Berlin universities and non-university institutions it is also available.
Structure and Organization
The library is organized as a " single-layer " library system with unified management and centralized resource allocation. The three area libraries are locally located, according to the scattered location of the university. The humanities holdings are primarily located in the World Heritage Site at the New Palace Sanssouci Park, the stocks of Law, Economics and Social Sciences on the campus Babelsberg Griebnitzsee, the human and scientific literature in the Science Park Potsdam- Golm. Affiliated with the University Library are the University Archives and the University Press.
As part of the structural reform of the German library system cooperates university library with many regional or regionally active information infrastructure, including multi-discipline, and assumes responsibility for the creation of a performance bond Brandenburgischer libraries whose goals are a pooling of resources and a more effective staff deployment. Scientists and citizens, students and trainees to nationwide permanent upgraded information and literature as well as contemporary services are offered that keep pace with the rapid technological change and correspond to the reality of life for information seekers.
History
The library was founded in 1991 as the library of the University of Potsdam newly founded in the same year. It integrates stocks of predecessor institutions such as the College of Education Karl Liebknecht at the New Palace and Babelsberg Academy of Law and Political Science of the GDR. For years, settled in ever changing buildings, the library was finally able to relate functionally equipped rooms: 2000 in Babelsberg, a converted former warehouse of the German Red Cross, in 2006 at the New Palace one to a glass building expanded and redesigned carriage house on the southern economy of the castle. 2011 is the first genuine library building in the university's history, an information and communication center in Science Park Golm, has been completed. The modern functional building ( 6,800 m² HNF 1 million volumes parking capacity) is fitted with events, group and individual work spaces, spacious reading areas as well as rare books and multimedia.
Inventory and usage
With a portfolio of approximately 1.3 million volumes, 27,000 electronic journals and 260 databases and 1.5 million e-books, the Potsdam University Library is one of the medium sized UBs in Germany. She is a member of the Cooperative Library Network Berlin -Brandenburg ( KOBV ) to support them in the field of electronic publishing and partners of the Common Library Network ( GBV ) in the composite database GVK cataloged and they participated in the online interlibrary loan itself.
In the start phase of the UB College created a core body of literature for research and teaching on the basis of the part of the Higher Education Institutions Act ( HBFG ) federal and state sided books basic component funding ( 1991-2002 ). This stock is further completed. It includes literature from all areas of science according to the orientation of the university as a university with a full range of subjects (except medicine) and interdisciplinarity. Special main topics are defined in the Higher Education Development Plan of the State of Brandenburg 2025 profile areas in the field of teacher education, media studies, the natural sciences, Jewish Studies, among others
The holdings are situated approximately half the open access area, after widespread in Germany Regensburg (RVK ). A free internal lending allows the ordering of literature from one library location to another. Nearly 28,000 active users make a total of about 430,000 items borrowed annually and now 1.8 million clicks on the online offers.
Increasing efficiency and improved service quality has been achieved by the introduction of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification). Since 2011, the free-hand stocks of all locations are equipped with transponders, enabling users to accelerate the posting during the self- Lending and the Golm fully automated media return.
Readers are a total of 740 jobs as part of the library system available, including 160 with PC and catalog and / or Internet access.
Special Collections
The Potsdam University Library has valuable Judaica and Hebraica collections, in particular:
Furthermore, historical works of all disciplines from the 17th and 18th centuries are represented in the library, which are gradually digitized and presented on the Platform Digital Brandenburg.
Since 2009, the UB Potsdam integrates the specialized library of the former research center European Enlightenment ( FEA). It offers in digital format full text of "New Library of the fine arts and the free men of the arts" at one of the most important German-language magazines in the second half of the 18th century, the former FEA had developed under a project of the German Research Foundation.
As permanent loan serves the University Library, the Library of the German Society of Earth Sciences, which structure a significant geological map collection is one that is the subject of various digitization projects.
The UB Potsdam Depository Library of the United Nations.
University Archives
The University Archives was created in 1991 from the archives of the Brandenburg State High School, its immediate predecessor the archives for the College of Education was " Karl Liebknecht " in Potsdam. This University Archives was established in 1966 and was both administrative and Endarchiv. Today in the university archive this archive include approximately 1,800 linear feet and date back to 1948, the founding year of the first Brandenburg State College. Among others, secures the archive the files of the following former facilities:
- Brandenburg State Higher School of Potsdam
- College of Education " Karl Liebknecht ", Potsdam
- Institute for Teacher Education " Rosa Luxembourg ", Potsdam
- Institute for Teacher Education " Clara Zetkin ", Cottbus
- Academy of Law and Political Science, Potsdam -Babelsberg
The University Archives is a public archive. It has the responsibility to develop that were produced at the University records of enduring value to obtain and for consultation to provide information or publishing.
University Press
The publication of the University Library Potsdam, founded in 1998, is an integrated service for print and e-publishing. It combines the responsibilities for University Publishing House, Document Server, University bibliography and Exchange Department. The University Press is compatible with its printed and electronic offer for the full and sustainable access to research results of scientists at the University of Potsdam in accordance with the principles of Open Access, which has confirmed in its resolution of 17 May 2006 the Senate of the University. With the publication and dissemination of quality-controlled content it has established itself as a platform for scientific publishing, which increases the visibility of the university's own research. In addition to publications in text form now also occur increasingly multimedia publications such as records of inaugural lectures, digital music archives, among other things in the foreground, which are offered on the university multimedia server operated by the UB.
The University Press is a member of the Association of University Publishers. In 2013, he has over 500 titles available in the program, ordered through our own webshop and the book trade. 80 % of its production are parallel online in full text on the publication server for text documents, the archived 2013 a total of approximately 6,000 open-access publications by members of the university. The University bibliography includes over 22,000 publications of scientists from Potsdam gradually growing annually by about 1,200 new publications.