Münstergasse Library
Opening hours
Extended opening hours: from Monday December 3rd, until Friday June 28th we are open weekdays until midnight (pilot phase). Entrance only with student accreditation or library card (identity document check).
Service Hours
Borrowing/Return
Monday - Friday: 8 - 19, Saturday: 8 - 13
Special Reading Room for Historic Collection
Monday - Friday: 10 - 17, Thursday: 10 - 19
Information
Monday - Friday: 10 - 19, Saturday: 10 - 13
The Münstergasse library in the Bernese old town is the location for borrowing and return for the collection of the University Library. In addition to the Schultheissensaal it offers a new two story reading room, a special reading room for the historic collection, group study rooms and an exhibition in the vaulted cellar in which originals from the historic collection are displayed. In the new Café Lesbar an appetizing selection of food and drink is available.
Service
Further Information
Learning Place
Contacts
Münstergasse Library Head
- Name / Titel
- Dr. Isabelle Kirgus
- Funktion
- Head Münstergasse library, subject librarian art and architecture history, dance and theater studies
- isabelle.kirgus@ub.unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 631 92 74
- Phone2
- +41 31 631 92 11
Customer Department Head, Borrowing Office Head
- Name / Titel
- Kathrin Johner
- Funktion
- Head of readers services Münstergasse
- kathrin.johner@ub.unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 631 92 24
- Phone2
- +41 31 631 92 11
Information & Training Office Head
- Name / Titel
- Viktoria Supersaxo
- Funktion
- Dienststellenleitung Information & Schulungen
- viktoria.supersaxo@ub.unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 631 92 73
- Phone2
- +41 31 631 92 11
Media Processing Department Head
- Name / Titel
- Dr. Samuel Weibel
- Funktion
- Head media processing department, co-coordinator collection management, subject librarian music
- samuel.weibel@ub.unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 631 92 30
- Phone2
- +41 31 631 92 11
Periodicals Service Center Office Head
- Name / Titel
- Anja Ebeling
- Funktion
- Head of Acquisition
- anja.ebeling@ub.unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 631 95 15
- Phone2
- +41 31 631 95 00
Descriptive Cataloging Office Head
- Name / Titel
- René Frei
- Funktion
- Dienststellenleitung Formalerschliessung
- rene.frei@ub.unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 631 93 22
- Phone2
- +41 31 631 92 11
Historic Collection Center Department Head
- Name / Titel
- Ulrike Bürger
- Funktion
- Head of Historical Collections Center, subject librarian old prints and bibliology
- ulrike.buerger@ub.unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 631 93 47
- Phone2
- +41 31 631 92 11
Curator's Office Head
- Name / Titel
- Dr. Sabine Schlüter
- Funktion
- Head of curator's office
- sabine.schlueter@ub.unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 631 92 50
- Phone2
- +41 31 631 92 11
Bernensia Collection Responsible
- Name / Titel
- Thomas Hayoz
- Funktion
- Person responsible for Bernensia
- thomas.hayoz@ub.unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 631 92 85
- Phone2
- +41 31 631 92 11
Preservation Office Head
- Name / Titel
- Petra Hanschke
- Funktion
- Head of preservation office
- petra.hanschke@ub.unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 631 93 49
- Phone2
- +41 31 631 92 11
History
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 2014-2016 | Complete refurbishment of the library building on Münstergasse 61/63. Building contractor: Burgergemeinde Bern (Civic Community of Bern), Architects: alb architektengemeinschaft ag, Bern. |
| 2007-2009 | Merger of the Town and University Library (StUB, now Central Library) and the university libraries of the University Library Bern (UB). |
| 1968-1974 | Major conversion by Peter Grützner and Walter Bürgi: Among other things five basement floors are built beneath the courtyard garden. |
| 1962-1955 | Expansion of former wine cellar. Switzerland's first rolling rack is installed. |
| 1951 | Creation of the foundation Town and University Library (StUB) by the canton of Bern, the civic community of Bern (Burgergemeinde Bern) and the council (Einwohnergemeinde) of the city of Bern. Foundation of the Burgerbibliothek (Civic Library) Bern, which took over the manuscript and illustration departments of the old town library. |
| 1909 | Demolition of the library gallery of Niklaus Sprüngli. The facade of the gallery has stood as a fountain on Thunplatz since 1911. |
| 1906-1907 | Extension of the east wing toward Herrengasse by Eduard v. Rodt. |
| 1905 | Recombination of the town and university library. |
| 1904-1905 | Western extension (Münstergasse 63) by Eduard v. Rodt. |
| 1860-1863 | Eastern extension (Münstergasse 61) by Gottlieb Hebler. |
| 1887 | Division of the library into a town and university library. |
| 1829-1833 | The market arcades and stalls on the ground floor are removed, the openings toward the arcades are walled up. |
| 1803 |
Library and academy (university) are separated. The city of Bern takes over the library, the canton the academy. |
| 1787-1794 | Conversion of Ankenwaag granary to a library by Niklaus Sprüngli and Lorenz Schmid. (location of today's Central Library). |
| 1632 | Donation of the private library of diplomat and humanist Jacques Bongars. |
| 1528-1535 | Foundation of the University Library Bern. |
Literature
- Bibliotheca Bernensis 1974. Festgabe zur Einweihung des umgebauten und erweiterten Gebäudes der Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek und der Burgerbibliothek Bern am 29. und 30. August 1974. Bern, 1974.
- Bloesch, Hans (Hrsg.): Die Stadt- und Hochschulbibliothek Bern. Zur Erinnerung an ihr 400jähriges Bestehen und an die Schenkung der Bongarsiana im Jahr 1632. Bern: Gustav Grunau, 1932.
- Michel, Hans A. Das wissenschaftliche Bibliothekswesen Berns vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. In: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde, 47 (1985), 168-234.
- Schatzkammern. 200 Jahre Bücher, Handschriften und Sammlungen im Gebäude an der Münstergasse 61-63. In: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde, 56 (1994), 161-252.
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Engler, Claudia, Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Bern, in: Handbuch der historischen Buchbestände der Schweiz, Bern 2003.