{"id":4251,"date":"2016-10-13T12:41:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T10:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deroberstegerichtshof.at\/service-en\/zentralbibliothek\/"},"modified":"2019-11-24T21:38:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T19:38:13","slug":"central-library","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ogh.gv.at\/en\/the-supreme-court-of-justice\/central-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Central Library<\/strong> which since 2002 has included the previously independent libraries of the Vienna Higher Regional Court of Appeal and the Vienna Regional Court for Civil Matters, comprises over 140,000 volumes, requiring ever-increasing amounts of space. These needs were addressed in the course of recent general renovations to the Palace of Justice, when the library area was relocated, and an underground book repository was constructed.<\/p>\n<p>A Reading Bridge was built over four columns in the courtyard of the Palace of Justice. It serves as a reading area and open access library, with approx. 1000 m of book storage space. The reading area is located along the glass-fronted outer wall, which creates a \u2018link\u2019 to the outside world, and provides an excellent source of natural light. A basement was constructed underneath the courtyard, and a book repository was created below the Reading Bridge, providing a further 5000 m of mobile bookshelves. The Reading Bridge is connected to the old Palace of Justice building by four glass bridges.<\/p>\n<p>One accesses the library today by passing directly from the main hall through a reception area, with exhibition areas and the historic library. Adjacent to the reception area on one side, there is a work room for the library staff, and on the other side, there is a reading room for lawyers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- ALTER TEXT\n\n\n<h3>Central Library<\/h3>\n\n\n<strong>23 July 1829<\/strong> may be regarded as the day on which the Central Library, now part of the Supreme Court of Justice, was founded, this being the day when Emperor Franz approved the establishment of a separate library. It is thus one of the oldest libraries of a public authority in Europe and the oldest judicial library in Austria.\n\nThe reading room of the Central Library has been open to all lawyers since <strong>1905,<\/strong> a facility that is still provided today.\n\nIn <strong>1927,<\/strong> the library contained around 50,000 works. At this time, it was the third-largest legal library in Europe. In addition to the current legal literature of the time and the collections of statutes, it also housed valuable manuscripts, irreplaceable early prints and the original statutes of Dalmatian and Italian cities. Almost all of these treasures fell victim to the flames in the Palace of Justice fire on 15 July 1927.\n\nIn autumn 1927, work was begun on rebuilding the library, which progressed rapidly thanks to numerous donations from Austria and abroad, such that, by the middle of the 1930s, the library's stock once again numbered around 18,000 volumes. After the Supreme Court of Justice was dissolved in <strong>1939,<\/strong> however, the most valuable and most recent works had to be handed over to the Court of the German Reich in Leipzig\n\nUpon the re-establishment of the Republic of Austria in 1945, the Central Library was once again created within the re-established Supreme Court of Justice. The library\u2019s inventory of books and journals has continuously increased since it was re-established in 1945.\n\nIn 1999, the Supreme Court of Justice decided to convert its previous paper catalogue to a database software solution supplied by Dabis-Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Datenbank InformationsSysteme GmbH, Vienna, that would record and manage the entire inventory of books, journals and statutory texts. This is a program package which, adapted to the particular requirements of a large library, permits rapid and rational cataloguing of the library\u2019s inventory, in particular, as well as a search of the data records comparable to the legal information system of the Federal Government.\n\n<b>Enter Library Catalogue:<\/b> <a class=\"textlinkBlack\" href=\"http:\/\/ogh.dabis.cc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Please click here!<\/a> (This link opens a new window to DABIS, Vienna)\n\nThe computer database replaced the previous outdated index card system of the Central Library in January <b>2000<\/b>. In order to permit uniform searches of the entire data inventory of the Central Library by means of a single IT-assisted inquiry, work was then begun on introducing a new software solution that would also include the recording of the vast old inventory. Projections show that approximately 18 man-years would be needed simply to register all of the old books, to which must be added the roughly 90,000 index cards on journal articles. Thus it is already clear that this will be the largest organisational project the Central Library has undertaken since it was founded.\n\nDespite the fact that some outside assistance will be provided from time to time, it will still take a number of years to complete the full computerisation of all the Central Library's index cards. At the end of 2003, however, at least the library\u2019s inventory from 1970 onwards and journal articles had been registered in the database, together with supplementary key words. Since then, cataloguing of additional fields has been completed (criminal law, encyclopedia collection, legal philosophy, economics, the complete inventory of the office libraries of the members of the Supreme Court of Justice and the Procurator General\u2019s Office). Older works in the fields of constitutional law are still being catalogued.\n\nAs of the end of 2008, the Central Library held roughly 124,000 works. As of that same time, roughly 180 legal journals were being received on a regular basis.--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Central Library which since 2002 has included the previously independent libraries of the Vienna Higher Regional Court of Appeal and the Vienna Regional Court for Civil Matters, comprises over 140,000 volumes, requiring ever-increasing amounts of space. 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