University Library of Southern Denmark

The University Library of Southern Denmark (Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, abbreviated to SDUB) is open to the public. It acts as a knowledge center for the entire region of Southern Denmark, with departments in six cities. Researchers and students at the University of Southern Denmark are its primary users, but companies, organizations and educational establishments like upper secondary education schools, are also among the users.

University Library of Southern Denmark - Odense

The University Library of Southern Denmark provides access to books, journals, newspapers, maps, musical scores, microfilms, and a wide variety of electronic resources. The library has about 1.6 million printed volumes and gives access to about 103.500 electronic journals, 427.000 e-books and a large number of online databases, 460 at the moment (all figures are from March 2015). The collections mainly cover the areas of study and teaching at the University of Southern Denmark, but practically all fields of study are represented at the library.

The University Library of Southern Denmark also participates in the national library collaboration of libraries, and therefore we can get books from all public libraries and research libraries in Denmark. The Library also collaborates with partners in other countries on giving access to books and journals, both in printed and digital formats.

The University Library has several specialised sub-libraries and also collaborates with the University Hospital, Odense University Hospital (OUH). In Odense, there are the Mathematical Library, the Medical Research Library at OUH and the Music Department at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music. The Music Department takes care of the jazz collection of the University Library of Southern Denmark, which is just one of our many special collections.

The University Library offers its users many services, including a number of services for researchers; bibliometrics and registration of research, and there are contact librarians for all institutes and centres.

Furthermore, the Library offers e.g. course resources and Libguides, and provides many courses for users on information searching and academic conduct in various connections. The library, together with a number of other units and academic milieus at SDU, has also established a Learning Commons, where students can get help with generic academic competences.

The Library collaborates with various external institutions, e.g. Denmark’s Electronic Research Library (DEFF), on providing services for researchers and students. This has resulted in the development of a number of online resources on plagiarism (Stopplagiat.nu), academic information management (the UB-test), and information literacy (BINKO 2.0). This last is an open source tool, and can be freely used by educational establishments who can customize it for their own students. This has resulted in a range of online tools concerning plagiarism (Stopplagiat.nu), academic information management (UB-testen) and information literacy (BINKO). The last-mentioned tool is open source and can, therefore, be freely used by teaching institutions in order to adapt it to their own students.

The University Library also participates in a number of digital projects for upper secondary schools as well as in projects on e-learning and distance learning, publishing strategies, IT didactics and online help with homework for secondary schools. At present, SDUB collaborates with 15 upper secondary schools in the region. During the last few years, some of the Library departments have been renovated. This has happened at the main library at Campusvej and in Kolding. The Technical Library will move to Campusvej in the summer of 2015.

History

The University Library of Southern Denmark (formerly Odense University Library) was founded in 1965, one year before the University (then Odense University).

The library is the result of a merger of the research libraries belonging to these institutions: Odense University, the Southern Denmark School of Business and Engineering and the South Jutland University Centre, now all parts of the University of Southern Denmark. The merger was effective from the 1st January 1999. In 2006 SDU was merged with the Odense University College of Engineering, which made the Odense Technical Library a part of SDUB. . In 2007, the Business School Centre in Slagelse and the National Institute of Public Health and their libraries were also incorporated in the University of Southern Denmark.

Since October 1, 2013, the leader of the library is Library Director Bertil F. Dorch. The previous leaders were Torkil Olsen (1965-1982) and Aase Lindahl (1982-2013, appointed temporarily 1982-86).

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    1. ↑ Nielsen, Torben (red.): Odenses bibliotekshistorie, Odense Universitetsforlag, 1990, ISBN 87-7492-772-8.