Saxon State and University Library Dresden
The Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden ( SLUB Dresden) was created in 1996 from the merger of the library of the Technical University and the Saxon State Library (SLB ). Emerged from the ( brief ) princely collection of books from the 16th century, the State Library is open to the public since 1788. The seemingly redundant name of the library is to show that the State Library is both the Staatsbibliothek of Saxony and the University Library of TU Dresden.
The SLUB moved in 2002 a large new building at the cell 's path, in which the stocks were merged. She belongs with nearly nine million existing units of the largest libraries in Germany and has as a body of Landesbibliografie is a legal depository for published literature in Saxony.
- 4.1 History of the State Library
- 4.2 History of the University Library
- 6.1 older library catalogs and directories
The library carries 5.19 million stock units. She's special collections library of the German Research Foundation in the areas of " Contemporary Art since 1945 " and " history of technology ". About the collection topics such as advertising photography, documentary photography and photographic art as well as art photography both rich collections to the holdings of the Deutsche Fotothek.
The first surviving index of stocks of the State Library dates back to 1574 and can be searched on the Internet. Other services on the Internet for example, provides the maps forum with historical maps of Saxony and the photo library, which offers many visual documents for searching.
German Photo library
The German photo library is based on the tradition of Dresden in both the photographic and camera production as well as in photographic art. Originally Landesbildstelle but was built in Chemnitz, but shortly thereafter moved to Dresden in 1925. Since 1956, the stock is referred to as German photo library. Since 1983 it belongs as a separate department for the Saxon State Library. With 2.3 million photo documents the photo library has a very large share of all stock management units. The oldest images go back to 1850 to the photographer Hermann Krone.
Outside the freehand or magazine stocks the book carries a special museum collection, including a dated to around 1200 AD copy of Maya manuscript Dresden Codex, the Saxons in 1739 acquired. There are usually only three codices in Paris, Madrid and Mexico. The Codex candidate for inclusion on the World Soundtrack Awards. The meticulously restored Dresden Mirror of Saxony is issued in the treasury six weeks in the year. The Dresden Corvinen were included by UNESCO as part of the Bibliotheca Corvina in 2005 in the list of world cultural heritage list.
Digital Collections
The SLUB Dresden operates since 2007 the Dresden digitization center and has continuously expanded this up to a capacity of 3 million pages per year. Since then, more than 60,000 volumes have been digitized and can be used in the digital collections. For the German Digital Library, which since November 2012 Online, SLUB is one of the biggest data providers. This is made possible by funding support, in particular by the German Research Foundation. Thus, the SLUB involved, for example, to the digitization of directories published in the German speaking countries in the 17th or 18th century, to the electronic editions as of August Wilhelm Schlegel's collection or illustrated magazines of classical modernism. Currently located in the digital collections of the SLUB more than 60,000 books, over 70,000 volumes and over 1 million graphic media ( photos, maps, drawings). The used for the digitization workflow open source software Goobi was largely developed in order to process different types of media and can represent.
Special Collections
At the State Library two special collections of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG ) have been established. The SLUB Dresden making it one of 22 other academic libraries in Germany, which are designed to ensure the maintenance of special collection focusing on the availability of the relevant literature of a research area in Germany.
Contemporary Art since 1945, photography, industrial design and commercial art
The oldest special collections of the library is performed to contemporary art since 1945. A collection focus on art after 1945, the library held already in the library scene of the GDR. 1993 began the promotion of the collection area by the DFG. Without a definite scope includes topics of photography, industrial design and commercial art to the collection. The collections include approximately at the special collections of medieval and modern art history to 1945 and Art Studies at the University Library of Heidelberg.
The existence of the special collection includes approximately 150,000 volumes and 330 periodicals. Collected literature focuses besides the history of art in Europe and North America and the theory of art with concrete painting, graphics, sculpture and crafts as well as new art forms such as Land Art, Digital Art, video art, performance art and more.
With the promotion of the DFG SLUB built in January 2001 to August 2004, the virtual library on contemporary art ViFaArt on. " - Virtual Library for Art History arthistoricum.net " together in a virtual library of art under the name united arthistoricum.net Since 2012 the previously presented separately offers the Virtual Library of Contemporary Art and.
History of Technology
The Special Collections History of Technology is a project funded by the German Research Foundation Special Collection of the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden. Since the year 1998, the Library receives annually by the DFG funding to buy foreign journals, monographs and microforms about the history of technology, which are supplemented from the budget of the SLUB for the acquisition of foreign and domestic publications. The SLUB currently has approximately 31,000 monographs and more than 110 magazine titles to the subject.
In addition to the classical literature procurement of gravity of the aggregated order is on the provision of Internet-based services that are on the specialist portal for Special Collection "showcase the history of technology " searchable.
Saxonica
Saxonica be at the Electoral Library since the late 18th century, during the tenure of Johann Christoph Adelung systematically collected. Was the collection initially focused on literature on Saxon history, the Saxonica - term began in the 19th century to other science areas of regional concern such as the nature and folklore, geography, archeology or philology expand. Today, the term " Saxonica " includes German and foreign language publications, the content of Saxony and its subregions ( natural and cultural areas, administrative units, historical regions, etc. ), refer to its locations and connected to the land deceased and living personalities.
Since the beginning of the 20th century Saxonica be detected in the Saxon bibliography. Founder of this regional bibliography was Rudolf Bemmann, he was succeeded by Jacob Jatzwauk. With the exception of manuscripts and photographs, all published since 1992 Saxonica in Saxon Bibliography Online will be demonstrated step by step, all previously published titles are included in this proof.
The collection and archiving of literature, video and sound carriers over Saxony and the development of the Saxon bibliography are tasks that the SLUB in the Law on the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden ( SächsLBG ) were transferred.
Map Collection
The Map Collection includes map sheets with a focus on the Saxon cartography but also going beyond historical maps of Europe and Germany. The map collection includes approximately 138,000 individual sheets of which 19,650 up to and including 1800 and created 41,600 1801-1945 and other leaves that were drawn after 1945. The collection serves as a scientific source of the country's history in general but also to the history of particular places, castles and the historic space, landscaping and traffic development. Approximately 11,000 sheets of the collection are still suspects in Russia.
The maps forum SLUB is a supervised by the Deutsche Fotothek and funded by the DFG information portal of libraries, museums and archives. In particular on the history and geography of Saxony - - currently around 20,000 of the most important, high-resolution digitized cartographic sources are from the collections of the participating partners offered.
Department of Music
The music department contains about 200,000 volumes. The department is divided into two collections New Prints and Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, with old prints include stocks that arose prior to 1850. The department is closely intertwined with the library that contains music recordings, the photo library, which holds musikikonografische Materials, and the manuscript collection, which includes letters of musicians.
The department was founded in 1816 by Friedrich Adolf Ebert, in which up to then split stocks Musica theoretica and musica practica were merged. By 1934, the department has been added, such as the private collection of King Albert or holdings of the State Opera. In 1983, the State Library Central Library of the GDR for art and music.
Architecture
The central building of the SLUB was built from 1999 to 2002 and designed by architects Ortner & Ortner. The building offers more than 40,000 square meters in 1000 reading places, including 200 in the large reading room. The construction costs were approximately 90 million euros.
During the construction period of the building and other buildings of contemporary architecture in Dresden emerged. To fall in this phase of urban development among others, the completions of Ufa Crystal Palace, the New Synagogue, the Glass Factory and the new terrace.
Locations
In addition to the Central Library on the cell 's way SLUB has five other locations. The central building across the street is the area library DrePunct. It integrates the branch libraries of the faculties of the TU Dresden for civil engineering, electrical engineering, geosciences, computer science, mechanical engineering, economics and transport sciences. The Faculties Education ( August- Bebel-Straße ), medicine ( Fiedlerstraße ), law ( mountain road ) and forestry ( Tharandt ) have separate branches of the SLUB.
History
History of the State Library
The Saxon State Library was founded in 1556 by Elector Augustus I, making it one of the oldest libraries in Germany. As an old Hofbibliothek its value justified as a collection of book art and their content of information for the Saxon history. Originally housed in the Dresden Royal Palace book collection was already shifting in 1574 from Dresden to Anna Castle castle. As part of the shift to put on a first compartment catalog. The catalog included 2,736 texts in 1674 volumes.
Elector Christian I could return the library after he took office in 1586 again in the Dresden Royal Palace. 1589 inventory by the 3,312 works comprehensive collection of the Thuringian counts of Werther has been extended. The library administration was incumbent in the 17th century the Oberhof preachers at the Saxon court, including, among others, Polycarp Leyser the Elder ( line 1593-1610 ), Paul Jenischhaus ( line 1610-1612 ), Matthias Hoe of Hoënegg ( line 1613-1645 ), Jacob Weller ( line 1645-1664) and Martin Geier ( line 1664-1680 ). From 1640 the writers and poets took over the care of the library, including, without limitation Christian Brehme and the Baroque poet David Schirmer. The collection included by the end of the 17th century less than 7,000 volumes.
From 1680 the library moved into line of spiritual secular hands, from now on, took different people, who belonged to the elite of the nobility at the Saxon court, the management of the library. In this role, had, inter alia, Frederick I of Eckstadt Vitzthum ( line 1714-1726 ) and Heinrich Friedrich von Friesen ( 1727-1733 ). 1738 took over the prime minister Heinrich von Brühl even the leadership of the library ( cable up to 1763).
The library grew steadily in the 18th century. 1718 was the stock by nearly 1,000 books from the estate of Duke Moritz Wilhelm of Saxe- Zeitz, including an octagonal Koran of 1184 and a copy of the 1462 printed by Peter Schoeffer Mainz Bible. From the estate of Johann von Besser arrived in 1727 about 18,000 volumes in the possession of the library.
Until 1728, the library at the Dresden Palace was located and was then moved to the kennel. Thus, the book collection was housed first time structurally representative.
1739 came into the possession of the library of the Dresden Codex, which could be identified in the 19th century manuscript of the Maya. The Dresden Codex is one of the most valuable copies of the library world, there are currently only three other manuscripts of the Maya.
After the purchase of additional collections, including the library of Count von Brühl, crowded the library the pavilion in the kennel, so she was transferred in 1786 to the Japanese Palace in the Neustadt, where she remained until 1945.
1788, the library is accessible under the name of Bibliotheca Publica Electoralis the public. In order for the public presentation of the Electoral collection of books was about 50 years later than that of the Treasury in the Green Vault. With the establishment of the Kingdom of Saxony was in 1806, the designation Royal Public Library. End of the 19th century, the library was expanded to include cartographic and musical collections.
Through the establishment of the Free State of Saxony, the library received in 1918 for the first time the name Saxon State Library, she wears so consistently to the present day. 1935, the Book Museum was opened after the site in the Japanese Palace was again modernized.
1945, the library was hit and destroyed in the air raids on Dresden. Also as a result of the spoils of war the Soviet Union halved the stock. After the war the library was moved to the Albert City and from 1949 again available. In 1966 the library through a merger of the very large collection stenotype writings of Stenographic Institute. Also in 1983, the library was expanded once again by her was assigned to the German photo library.
History of the University Library
The University Library was created in 1828 as the library of the Royal Saxon educational institution. Between 1851 and 1890 the educational institution was referred to as Royal Saxon Polytechnic School. 1872 School and library were then relocated to the vicinity of present-day Central Station. 1890, from the collection of the Library of the Institute of Technology and thus a high school library from the present standpoint.
1945, the University Library was destroyed and reduced inventory. It was the relocation of the library in a villa on the current campus of the University, where now sits the Rector of the Technical University of Dresden. Under the direction of Helene Benndorf was the rebuilding of the destroyed subject catalog, but also the establishment of the university central catalog and the reopening of the patent office. The renaming in Technical University was in 1961, which in turn led to the designation as a university library. Since 1977, the borrowing are centrally controlled in the branch libraries section- or today.
After 1990, the TU Dresden was expanded into a full university and as supplemented by the library branch libraries of the economic and legal sciences. In 1992, the merging of TU and the University of Transport and thus the takeover their library. Also in 1993, the University Library was again expanded to include a branch library than the research and teaching facilities of the resolved Medical Academy Dresden University of Technology has been assigned.
1997 pulled the branch library in educational sciences at the August-Bebel -Straße. The following year saw the opening of the Departmental Library Dre.Punct, went up in the several faculty libraries.
With the merger with the National Library began in 1999 the construction of the main building in the campus of the Technical University of Dresden. On 1 August 2002, the opening of the SLUB for users was. On 14 January 2003 the official inauguration took place. This provides mainly by the large reading room and the carrels good working conditions.
Awards
The library was awarded on 22 February 2009 under the initiative of Germany, Land of Ideas For her extensive work in the area of digitization.