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The Vienna City Library is the academic library of the Austrian capital Vienna. By mid-2006 it was called the Vienna City and State Library.

As the state library in the state of Vienna, which is territorially identical with the city of Vienna, she gets deposit copies of publications appearing in Vienna. As a research library for the history and culture of the city of Vienna, she accumulated over the printed publications addition, manuscripts, letters, printed music, music manuscripts as well as posters and entire estates. Organizationally, the Vienna City Library is in the City Hall Municipal Department 9 (MA 9) and belongs to the Business Culture of the Municipality of the City of Vienna.

History

A first mention of the library in the Vienna City Hall dates from the year 1466. 1632 the important library of the town school was transferred to St. Stephen's Cathedral in the City Hall and united with the town library. In 1780 this ancient city library was dissolved and transferred the stocks to 6,000 guilders the Library (now Austrian National Library ). 1856 was the founding of the Vienna City Library by decision of the Vienna City Council as a law library for the needs of the Vienna city administration. My seat was at that time in the Old Town Hall in the Wipplingerstraße 8

In 1886 the library moved into the still benützten premises on the first floor of the new Vienna City Hall. From 1889 to 1939 the library of the Historical Museum founded in 1887 formed the municipal collections. After the death of the Austrian national poet Franz Grillparzer whose estate came into the possession of the City of Vienna and was handed over to the municipal collections. The delivery of this estate is considered as the founding act of the manuscript collection. With the gift of a portion of the manuscripts of Franz Schubert, who had gathered the Viennese industrialist and patron Nikolaus Dumba, the municipal collections in 1900 was also a music collection. From this donation is an extensive collection of manuscripts and letters by Franz Schubert, which was recorded in 2001 in the UNESCO program Memory of the World (World Documentary Heritage ) developed. 1923 was on the initiative of then Finance City Council Hugo Breitner a poster collection, which is today among the most important in Europe

The Second World War was the library largely unscathed thanks to outsourcing. Since 1977, the library was officially changed name Vienna City and State Library. Starting in 1982, a legal depository for published works in Vienna applies. For the 150th anniversary in 2006, the Library in Vienna library was renamed in the town hall and was given a new corporate design.

Use spaces and magazines in the library are located near the City Hall, the music collection and documentation of it in the Bartensteingasse.

Collections

• Document collection: The document collection is the largest department of the Vienna Library. They kept some 500,000 printed items - in addition to books, newspapers and magazines also broadsheets, brochures, death notices, theater programs and playbills. Core of the collection are Viennensia, ie publications with Vienna - reference from a variety of scientific fields. Significant special collections are Turcica ( Turkish sieges of Vienna in 1529 and 1683 ), Josephinica (brochures from the time of Emperor Joseph II) and Revolution writings from 1848.
• Documentation: The existing since October 1, 1930 documentation evaluates the most important newspapers in Vienna since 1900 from (Newspaper Index). The articles were collected with the title, journal, date and page in the form of a card catalog, and since 2007 they are listed in the online catalog. Be taken Vienna relevant messages about cultural, social, community and political events as well as reports of Viennese personalities that are in the public eye: artists, scientists, politicians. The documentation is also responsible for background research on naming of streets after people and honors. Even the hundreds of thousands of people and property portfolios comprehensive daily paper archive belongs to this department.
• Manuscript Collection: The collection of manuscripts managed extensive and important holdings of Austrian cultural history from the late 18th century. The focus represents the collection of estates and individual autographs of Austrian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries
• Music Library: The music collection includes music manuscripts and printed music to the music history of the last two hundred years with an emphasis on Vienna and held a number of estates.
• Poster Collection: The poster collection currently comprises around 300,000 posters and pamphlets (some in multiple copies ), making it one of the largest collections in Europe comparable. Film and theater posters, tourism promotion, exhibition announcements are represented as well as product advertising and political posters.

Significant individual collections:

• Schubert collection, which was declared in 2001 a World Soundtrack Awards, arose from the autograph donation of the patron of the arts and collector Nicholas Dumba.