Newsletter 10.2023
1. Improvements in special collection services – materials now available in main building
To make working with our valuable historic and special collection materials more convenient and less complicated, we have been providing them from Monday to Friday until 6pm for a few weeks, with no need to make an appointment. These materials have now also been made available for Campus Delivery Service, enabling university members to request digital access to individual articles and excerpts free of charge.
So far we have been providing access to the materials in the Limona building. We are now starting a second trial period, during which materials will be available in the main building under similar conditions. We’d like to ask for your feedback on the procedure and the work environment to evaluate both trial periods. Please use the available feedback forms or let us know what you think at the service desks or by e-mail (info@ub.uni-weimar.de).
2. Top up thoska credit with debit and credit cards
Fewer and fewer banks issue EC and Maestro cards, which has led to problems with using the thoska credit machines. The Studierendenwerk Thüringen has reacted by expanding the payment options, and you can now top up your credit at the machines in the mensa building and the university library using debit and credit cards.
3. University library Weimar continually supports new books published in Open Access
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The Open Access book »Obliteration. Für eine partikulare Medienphilosophie nach Emmanuel Levinas« by Johannes Bennke (formerly KOMA - Kompetenzzentrum Medienanthropologie), part of transcript‘s Open Library Medienwissenschaft, was co-financed by Weimar university library. The library has participated in transcript‘s Open Library Medienwissenschaft program for three years and supports the publication of Open Access monographs from the area of media science with common funds.
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The Open Access publication fund further financed publishing the chapter »Der Bibliothek eine Stimme geben: Die Integration von Lobby-Arbeit in den beruflichen Alltag« by Dr. Frank Simon-Ritz, Director of Weimar university library, in the »Praxishandbuch Wissenschaftliche Bibliothekar:innen. Wandel von Handlungsfeldern, Rollen und Perspektiven im Kontext der digitalen Transformation«. This handbook was cooperatively funded by libraries and was published under CC BY license with De Gruyter.
The Open Access publication fund at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar has enabled supportive financing of Open Access monographs since 2019. You can find funding guidelines and information on how to apply on our website.
4. Alumni talk № 30 featuring Dr. Heiko Schultz now online
Dr. Heiko Schultz, chancellor of first the Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen (HAB), then from 1996 the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, from 1990 til 2014, met library director Dr. Frank Simon-Ritz for an alumni talk in the »Mensa am Park«, which was finished in 1982 and recently renovated.
The talk revolves around Schultz’ role as head of the university buildings department in building the mensa from 1979 until 1982. After obtaining his promotion Schultz was again involved in university building administration from 1986. When the position of chancellor opened, he took the opportunity and held that office from 1990 until he retired in 2014.
The talk with Dr. Heiko Schultz continues the series of talks on university history the alumni office curates in cooperation with the university archive and the university library.
5. Exhibition »Walt Whitman in Weimar« - in the university library until December 14th
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An award ceremony opened the exhibition »Walt Whitmann in Weimar: Song of Myself –buchkünstlerische Positionen 1923 und 2023« on October 27th. The recipients of the award were Friederike Dolinschek and Rosa Tuchel (both Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle), who worked on historic print sheets from the Weimar publisher Utopia from 1923 in a seminar. Anyone with an interest in the US writer Walt Whitman and modern book art and typography has the opportunity until December 14th to see 10 book objects exhibited on the university library’s lower floor. You will be able to see photographs saturated in walnut oil, book pages prepared with grass juice and a book cover handmade in colourful bast fibre by Anny Wottitz in 1923.
6. New exhibition catalogue »GEFESSELTE BLICKE – Filmplakate aus den 1920er Jahren«
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A dog flying through the air, jumping from one plane’s wings to another’s – a spectacular sight, today as much as in the 1920s, when it advertised an adventure film. It now adorns the cover of the »Gefesselte Blicke« exhibition catalogue, which was recently published by LUCIA Verlag Weimar and designed by Ricarda Löser. Both the exhibition and the catalogue result from a cooperation between Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and Universität Erfurt. The colourful film posters were on display in the Weimar university library during summer 2023 and can soon be seen in the university library in Erfurt, from November 24th 2023 until Februars 4th 2024. The catalogue was created by students and lecturers from both universities in a cooperative class and will be presented to the public for the first time at the exhibition opening on November 23rd at 6pm.
You are cordially invited to attend as well as read.
Simon Frisch, Katrin Richter, Patrick Rössler (Hg.), Gefesselte Blicke. Filmplakate der 1920er Jahre, Weimar: LUCIA Verlag 2023.
7. »Freiheit der Worte - Worte der Freiheit« - author reading and talk on war, freedom of opinion and the power of words
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and Stiftung Ettersberg invite you to this event in the series »Jorge Semprún in Weimar. Zum 100. Geburtstag eines großen Europäers der Stiftung Ettersberg« on Friday, November 24th 2023, at 6pm in the Audimax lecture hall at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
What does freedom of opinion mean in war and under dictatorships? How political is literature allowed to be? And how does carrying on with writing after the catastrophe work? We want to talk about these questions and the function literature can have in times of war and crisis with well known human rights activist, writer and filmmaker Nahid Shahalimi, writer Tanja Maljartschuk (Ingeborg Bachmann award) and publisher and author Madjid Mohit (PEN Hermann Kesten award). Journalist Dina Metz will moderate the event.
Entry is FREE!
Stefanie Röhl
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