The University Library of Tübingen (german: Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen; ''UB Tübingen'') is the main library of the

University of Tübingen The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (german: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; la, Universitas Eberhardina Carolina), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Wü ...

, one of the biggest and most renowned universities in

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

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. The people who worked for he ''University Library of Tübingen'' include Hermann Kurz,

Adelbert von Keller Adelbert von Keller (5 July 1812 – 13 March 1883) was a German philologist. Biography He was born at Pleidelsheim, and educated at the University of Tübingen, where, after study at Paris, he became Privatdozent and assistant librarian (1835) ...

, Robert von Mohl and

Rudolf von Roth Rudolf von Roth (born Walter Rudolph Roth, 3 April 1821 – 23 June 1895) was a German Indologist, founder of the Vedic philology. His chief work is a monumental Sanskrit dictionary, compiled in collaboration with Otto von Böhtlingk. Biography R ...

. After the foundation of the university in 1477, the library was located at the so-called ''Sapienzhaus'', later it was moved to the ''Alte Aula'', the former main building of the university, then to Hohentübingen Castle (all of those in the

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(''Altstadt'') of Tübingen). The oldest building of the library at its current location (officially part of the town's architectural

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) was completed in 1912; the architect was

Paul Bonatz Paul Bonatz (6 December 1877 – 20 December 1956) was a German architect, member of the Stuttgart School and professor at the technical university in that city during part of World War II, and from 1954 until his death. He worked in many styl ...

. Large buildings were adjacently added in 1963 (the current main building), 1989 (''Alte Waschhalle'', renovated, formerly "old laundry hall" of the university) and 2003 (''Ammerbau''). The main library is located centrally in the university quarter of Tübingen, east of the old town, on ''Wilhelmstraße'', near most of the university buildings of the arts,

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

and the

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faculties. A second location of the library is on the outskirts of Tübingen, at ''Morgenstelle'', where the faculties of

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and the

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are located. In 1776 the library housed 15,000 items; by 1822, this number had increased to 60,000, by 1912 to 514,000 and by 1963 to 1.204 million. Today, the overall inventory is approximately 3.4 million items. In 2008, the budget was just over 9 million

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, the number of staff was 128. Around 340,000 people, more than three times the population of the town of Tübingen, were registered as users (as usage is not only limited to enrolled students of the university (approx. 28,000), but anyone with an address in Baden-Württemberg can freely use it).

References

* Hannsjörg Kowark: ''Georg Leyh und die Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen (1921–1947)''. Tübingen: Mohr, 1981, . * Ralf Werner Wildermuth: ''Der Bonatzbau der Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen. Funktionelle Bibliotheksarchitektur am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts''. Tübingen: Mohr, 1985, .

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