Tallinn University Academic Library

The Academic Library of Tallinn University (Estonian Tallinna Ülikooli Akadeemiline Raamatukogu, TLÜ AR) was founded in 1946. She took over the role as 2003 Tallinn University Library (UB ). From 1997 to 2005 she was under the name of Estonian Academic Library ( Eesti Akadeemiline Raamatukogu, EAR) known.

With a total population of about 2.5 million volumes, it is according to the Tartu University Library and the National Library of Estonia Tallinn is the third largest library in Estonia.

  • 2.1 General Collections
  • 2.2 Special Collections

History

The University Library was founded in April 1946 as the Central Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR. Your library collection was formed at that time to around 90 percent from the 1940 resolved library of the Estonian Literary Society (ELG ). This in turn was due to the stocks, founded in 1825 Estonian General Public Library ( EAÖB ) and established already in 1552 Olaibibliothek to Tallinn ( Reval German ).

After independence in 1991, Estonia became part of the Estonian Academy of Sciences and the beginning of the millennium, part of the University of Tallinn. In recent years, the catalog and the offer in the field of electronic media has been greatly expanded and developed.

Main building

The former central library of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR moved in 1966 to its present main building in the Rävala Street 10 The building was an architectural monument of the socialist post-war modern historical monument.

Departments and Collections

General Collections

As an archive library, the Academic Library deposit copies of everyone in the Republic of Estonia published book. About 70 percent of the total stock of the library are foreign language (ie non- Estonian ) literature. The thematic focus of the library extend across the disciplines of theology, philosophy, education, law, history, mathematics, science, and literature with Classical and Modern Philology.

In addition to the central library, the academic library is divided into six area libraries that are associated with the institutes and departments of the University of Tallinn. In Haapsalu and Rakvere also consist branches.

  • Sports Library
  • Library of the Art Institute
  • Library of the Baltic Film and Media School
  • Library of the Estonian Institute of Human Sciences
  • Library of the Institute of History
  • Library of the Law Academy

Special Collections

Among the special collections of the library include the Academic Baltica and Rare Books Department and the Centre for Estonian exile literature.

The Baltica forms the regional literary old stock the library with literature on the former Baltic provinces of Estonia, Livonia and Courland, where the published before 1900 prints only make up about 2/3 ( approximately 500,000 printed media units ) in the stock of Baltica and rare books. The rest is literature from the first half of the 20th century and contemporary Baltica. The Baltica and Rara have a high proportion of German literature (about 60 percent) and are therefore not insignificant in terms of the German language history in the Baltics. The earliest volumes of the Baltica rich to the year 1475th One particularly valuable for the Estonian language volumes is created by the German - Baltic church writers Heinrich Stahl between 1632-1637 bilingual manual and Hauszbuch. For the Pfarherren and Hauszväter Esthnischen Fürstenthumbs.

St. Olaf's Church, Tallinn History of Estonia Estonian literature History of German Integrated Authority File
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