Volkswagen Bibliothek
- Completed October 2004, Planned 1999
- Volkswagen paid 10% of building in return for naming rights. (Cost DM 10 Million)
- Also houses books for Universitat der Kunste (University of the Arts), so has 2 chief librarians.
- Some specific collections not available to students from other universities, but most collections available to any German resident for €20 per year.
- Have tried to combine library services - One library account
- 30K sq m including underground, Huge
- 6 floors – 1 underground, plant and closed stacks.
- Staff enquiry desks to 8pm then to 10pm by students, 10x at a time
- *have access to nearly all e-resources, but most journals still in print only, due to VAT.
- 11 Group rooms and 1 large ‘Groups’ room small study carrels bookable for 6 months.
- 3 phrases in entrance used as artwork, a footnote, a dedication (as in book), and the copyright statement (in English)
- Publicly funded buildings have to spend proportion on art (1%)
- 16 Libraries merged into technical library section.
- Includes Special Library for Horticulture – biggest in Germany
- Outsourced photocopying and printing to ‘Alpha’
- 900 reader places of which 300 have PCs – reducing in number over time
- No cctv, not allowed in public spaces in Germany
- RFID with book sorter by floor
- 400K loans p.a. +400K renewals
- Bookshop – sells Library discards.
- Basement – 600K volumes in open journal stacks
- 1million books in stacks from both Universities
- Rare books – separate fire/climate controls
