One loses quickly in depths below castle garden, between seemingly endless walls, in which back of book ranks on back of book, 21 shelf kilometers long, up to 14 meters below Earth's surface. Does whole acquisitiveness end, does it stop somewhere? "Go right, always right, at some point you come to an exit": The solution algorithm for mazes, it betrays a library employee, he also works in an emergency in book store of Austrian National Library below New castle.
Well over three million print works are stored here, and this is only younger, smaller part of all that National Library hoards in its labyrinthine corridors, hidden camps and proudly flaunted splendours.
650 years old is writing that is now considered founding Codex of library. This collection is largest in country and one of most important book archives in world. Even more, however, National Library was and still is a reflection of power structures and social upheavals, a train of different velocities in which history of Austria, its self-and foreign image, continues. Also in present: What Place has an instance whose core business was information on printed paper in digital era?
The abandoned impression deceives winding hallways with creaking wooden planks give some floors above user wing in New Castle. Eight Mannshohe scan machines are operated at same time behind a whitewashed door, and no device is same. The employees in Digitization Center carefully scan manually from ancient papyri to medieval incunabula all those things that are too valuable and too fragile to be placed in a scanning robot.
Since its beginnings, labyrinth behind residences of National Library scattered all over Vienna's inner city has swallowed up objects without any omission. In Second Republic, according to law, every publication that appears in Austria is archived from penny novel to dissertation. As early as Middle Ages, almost every Habsburg ruler has acquired libraries from family circle, acquiring stocks from wide-branched realm – and not only limited to books. In four museums and eight collections – later this year House of history will come to this – you will find Globes and atlases, sheet music and Schuhplattler on black and white photos, courtly portrait cameos and entire writers ' estates.
This article dates back to time No. 05/2018. Here you can read entire output.At same time, virtual library grows. "We are also taking responsibility for future generations," says Johanna Rachinger. In 2001, upper Austrian took over Directorate of National Library and immediately explained digitisation program. More than 17 million pages of historical newspapers can already be called up in digital newspaper reading Room. The major project Austrian Books Online, in which 600,000 title comprehensive copyright-free stock is scanned, is to be completed this summer.
But archive continues for a long time: Today National Library also collects e-books and digital media, even whole internet, which spreads behind domain ". at". "If historians want to feel in 100 years how country has ticked in year 2018, n one cannot ignore internet," says Rachinger.
The atre scientist, tall and resolutely, is a high-speed speaker who brings her views to point. Democratisation of access to knowledge is programmatic credo that it has written to venerable house.
The house as a building did not exist for longest time: it was only in 18th century that n library had its own abode.
300 years before, in Duke's castle in Vienna, Albrecht III was a lover of books. The Habsburgs quickly discovered splendours of production of influence and wealth. In late 16th century, Maximilian I not only promoted circulation of printing in Habsburg Empire. He gave his life, true and supposed heroic deeds in dazzling colours. "Maximilian I recognized book as a propagandistisches medium," says Andreas Fingernail, head of manuscript collection of National Library.
Date Of Update: 28 January 2018, 12:03
