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ゲッティンゲン / ドイツ

ゲッティンゲン(標準ドイツ語:Göttingen, 低ザクセン語:Chöttingen)は、ドイツ連邦共和国ニーダーザクセン州ゲッティンゲン郡に属す都市である。同州南部に位置する大学都市であり、教育・研究で強く特徴付けられる。都市名は「ゲッチンゲン」とも表記される。 ゲッティンゲンは、ハノーファー、ブラウンシュヴァイク、オスナブリュック、オルデンブルクに次ぐニーダーザクセン州で5番目に大きな都市であり、上級中心都市の機能を担っている。この街はゲッティンゲン郡の郡庁所在都市であり、同郡最大の都市である。1964年にニーダーザクセン州州議会で可決されたゲッティンゲン法により、それまでの郡独立市からゲッティンゲン郡に編入された。この都市はこれ以後も、特に定めない限り、郡独立市と同等の扱いを受けることになっている。 ゲッティンゲンは1965年に人口10万人を超え、これにより大都市となった。最寄りの大都市には、カッセル(約38km南西)、ヒルデスハイム(約70km北)、ブラウンシュヴァイク(約92km北東)、エアフルト(約98km南東)、ハノーファー(約105km北)、パーダーボルン(約120km西南西)がある。ゲッティンゲンはハノーファー=ブラウンシュヴァイク=ゲッティンゲン=ヴォルフスブルク大都市圏の南端にあたる。

Göttingen State and University Library

ゲッティンゲン / ドイツ

The Göttingen State and University Library is the library for Göttingen University as well as for the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and is the state library for the German State of Lower Saxony. One of the largest German academic libraries, it has numerous national as well as international projects in librarianship and in the provision of research infrastructure services. In the year 2002, the SUB Göttingen won the German Library of the Year award. Its current director is Wolfram Horstmann. The library works under a dispersed system, with six branch libraries located in various academic departments, supplementing the central collection housed in the Central Library on the main campus and the Historical Library Building in downtown. The Historical Building holds manuscripts, rare books, maps, and a significant history-of-science collection and works in its special collections. In addition, its original core, the SS. Peter and Paul's Church, Göttingen, has been made into an exhibition and lecture center through adaptive reuse and reconstruction. As of December 2016, the SUB Göttingen holds some 8 million media units, among which are 5.9 million volumes, 1.6 million microforms, 50,000 licensed electronic journals as well as 126,000 further digital media, 327,000 maps and more than 14,000 manuscripts, 3,100 incunabula and 400 Nachlässe . It possesses a Gutenberg Bible . The SUB Göttingen has maintained the Göttingen Center for Retrospective Digitization since 1997. It also operates the Göttingen University Press, which has been expanding since its foundation in 2003 and is committed to the Open access principle. Since its establishment in 2004, the library's Department for Research and Development has been instrumental in the development of new services such as the establishment of virtual research environments and infrastructures for scientific data and services. Within the framework of the Collection of German Prints, the SUB Göttingen collects publications of the 18th century. Within the Specialised Information Services Programme funded by the German Research Foundation , it operates the specialised information services Mathematics ), Anglo-American Culture , Geosciences of the Solid Earth ) and Finno-Ugric / Uralic Languages, Literature and Culture . In cooperation with the University Library "Georgius Agricola" of the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg , the SUB Göttingen maintains a large online collection of geoscience-related materials, the GEO-Library Experts Online, or GEO-LEO. The SUB Göttingen coordinates the establishment of a nationwide competence center for the licensing of electronic resources . Since 2014, it has operated the Göttingen eResearch Alliance . The library coordinates the DARIAH-DE project for the development of research infrastructures in Germany, and supports the consortial establishment of open access research infrastructures across Europe and worldwide.