Presentation made by [Dorothea Sommer] at the IFLA Library Buildings and Equipment Satellite Meeting. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Aug.10-11, 2016.

1. From 7 to 1
Integration and Collaboration. The new Library for
Humanities and Social Sciences at ULB Halle, Germany
Satellite Pre-Conference, IFLA Library Buildings and Equipment
Section “Collaborative Strategies for Successful Library Design and
Innovative Use”, August 10-11, 2016
Dr. Dorothea Sommer, Bavarian State Library

2. own hand at construction that we
are initiated into the torments
associated with persuading
materials and other humans
to cooperate with our designs
Buildings rarely make palpable the efforts that
their construction demands. They are coyly silent
about bankruptcies, the delays, the fear and the
dust that they impose…It is only when we try our
“
”

3. State of Sachsen-Anhalt
(Saxony-Anhalt)
City of Halle (Saale)
Martin-Luther Universität
Halle-Wittenberg

4. Entrance to the main university
building, the main auditorium in
the background

5. Central library
(1878-1880, Ludwig von Tiedemann)

6. Central library
Foto: Christoph Seelbach

7. Central library

8. British Museum Library
Central library
Foto: Christoph Seelbach

9. British Museum Library
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Central library

10. Augsburg State and City Library
(1892-1893, Fritz Steinhäußer and Martin Dülfer)
Old University Library
Greifswald
(1880-1882, Martin Gropius)
Old University Library Kiel
(1881-1883, Heino Schmieden)

11. Opinion forming
process

12. Locations of branch libraries (1997)

13. Transformation of the
University‘s library system
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
27
(in 2002)
25 (in 2003)
19
13
Number of branch
libraries
111
71

14. Locations of branch libraries (1997)Locations of branch libraries (2013)
37
u.
98
75
u.
25
20
18

16. University of Bielefeld
(1969-1970, Herzog, Köpke, Siepmann et al.)
University of Konstanz
(1966, Horst Linde)
Old University Library Kiel
(1881-1883, Heino Schmieden)

17. Politics and Social Sciences
News Philologies (English and American studies,
Romance and Slavic languages and literatures)
History and Arts
German language and literature, foreign literatures,
South Asian literatures
Prehistoric archeology, Orient archeology, psychology,
Japanese language and literature
Phonetics and Science of Speech/Logopedics
From 7 to 1

18. 5,525 m2 surface area
9,820 m2 gros surface area
Building costs: 49 million euros
First estimates

19. 1) Securing of finances and obtaining support from the
State and the European Union
2) Location of the building place
3) Architectural competition
Collaboration
4) The design of the new library building and
completion of the building

20. 1) Securing of finances and obtaining support
from the State and the European Union
New estimate of
52 million euros
75%
25%

21. Market place
University square
Francke Foundations
Former campus
faculty of agriculture
Central library
Faculty
of medicine
University square
500 m
2) Location of the
building place

23. 3) Planning process and architectural competition
University Library Management
Chamber of Architects
Online Petition
City of Halle / Advisory board
Nature protection activists
University of Halle
Eßmann, Nieper & Partner
State / Building Department

24. VOF-Verfahren Geisteswissenschaften Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg – Baubereich 1
Dipl.-Ing. Architekten BDA Udo Nieper, Thomas Eßmann, Thomas Gärtner, Tom Nieper www.nieper-partner.de
4) The design of the new library building
and completion of the building

25. Castel del Monte

29. 5,525 m2 surface area
9,820 m2 gros surface area
Building costs: 49 million euros
Final figures
4,623 m2 surface area
7,343 m2 gros surface area
Building costs: 52 million euros
Bri: 29,718 m3
5,525 m2 surface area
9,820 m2 gros surface area
Building costs: 49 million euros
thereof: 14.36 million euros for the library building
Estimates

30. The new Steintor campus

31. Transformation of the Steintor area

32. Thank you for your attention!

33. Image Credits
Slide 1: By courtesy of University of Halle, photograph by Markus Scholz
Slide 3: Map EU-Germany: grapic by NuclearVacuum, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EU-Germany.svg
Slide 4: Photograph by ContactNi, licence: Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halleuniplatz.JPG
Slide 5: Photograph by Michael Hanke, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halle_%28Saale%29_University_Library_Building_%28Feb-2006%29.jpg
Slide 6: By courtesy of Christoph Seelbach
Slide 8: Photograph of central library by courtesy of Christoph Seelbach
Slide 9: BnF: photograph by Vincent Desjardins, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:France,_Paris,_Biblioth%C3%A8que_nationale_de_France,_site_Richelieu,_salle_ovale.jpg; British Museum library:
photograph by Diliff, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Museum_Reading_Room_Panorama_Feb_2006.jpg
Slide 10: Halle central library: By courtesy of University of Halle, photograph by Markus Scholz; Kiel library: photograph by VollwertBIT, licence: Creative
Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medizin-Pharmaziehist_Sammlung_Kiel.jpg; Greifswald library:
photograph by Thomas Böhme, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alte_Universit%C3%A4tsbibliothek.jpg; Augsburg library: By courtesy of Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg,
photograph by Eckhart Matthäus
Slide 11: Halle central library, see slide 5; GSZ library: By courtesy of University of Halle, photograph by Markus Scholz
Slide 16: Top left: photograph by N7legion, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Universit%C3%A4t_Bielefeld_Luftaufnahme.jpg; top right: photograph by Andy1982, licence: Creative Commons
Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uni_Bielefeld.jpg; bottom right: photograph by Tungsten, licence: Creative
Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Konstanz-Uni_Innenhof.jpg; bottom left: photography by
Universitaetkonstanz, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luftaufnahme_Universit%C3%A4t_Konstanz.jpg
Slides 17-19: By courtesy of University of Halle, photograph by Markus Scholz
Slide 21: OpenStreetMap and contributors, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic,
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/51.4828/11.9539
Slide 23, 25-26: By courtesy of University of Halle, photograph by Markus Scholz
Slide 27: Photograph by GuidoR (Guido Radig), licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castel_del_Monte_in_Apulia.JPG
Slide 29-30: By courtesy of University of Halle, photograph by Markus Scholz
Slide 31: By courtesy of Michael Kolkmann
Slide 32: By courtesy of MZ, photograph by Silvio Kison
Slide 33: By courtesy of University of Halle, photograph by Markus Scholz

34. Dr. Dorothea Sommer
Email: sommer@bsb-muenchen.de
Phone: +49 89 28638 2205
www.bsb-muenchen.de