have after a long period of silence I finally got time to write and present a very long entry.
The occasion is the now defunct new Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm center, the central library of the Humboldt University in Berlin, stomped out of the ground last year and 19 November 2009 (after a one-month test run in which the most serious errors could be covered in advance) was officially opened. The long-awaited construction, were allowed to see the students as any other for quite a while rather than merely imposing cube of the train drew out, the Swiss architect Max Dudler . Whether - as is rumored among students - he has actually forgotten the original wardrobe so they had to subsequently find a place where even what was is another matter. In any event, the building is quite impressive, but unfortunately not live half as chic as the beautiful Bldern in the newspaper, but that's why it's also primarily (and exclusively) suitable for the press. The attack also fully equal to the proud joy that the Central Library of the HU now finally has its own building which also houses the largest continuous free-hand stock in the German speaking countries. With numbers will happily thrown around: € 75.5 million it cost to build, 1.5 million are from the 2.5 million items owned by the library freely available, there are 1250 seats to work, and the cherry ameikanisches become pride as such, the central reading room with 252 jobs is 70m long and 20m high usw.usf.
What the press does not know is that the new university library is simply dysfunctional and tragic at all imaginable levels. It bursts only seems like figures (see Arcguide entry), can be attributed to great photos to the gallery and generally follows the principle of "university would be a great place if there were no students." The number that makes for minimal reflection are already suspicious, the seats in the building ... The holdings of the central library and 12 branch libraries are combined in the Grimm-Zentrum - 1250 jobs But? I want to start over.
Let us imagine that we wish to make an already borrowed book in Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Center, read a book from the reference collection on the ground and hire a-loan book, and we see us as something in the new flagship library can go from Amsterdam (drawn from their own experiences of a student).
We are approaching the building - "Oh, this is great!" - At the front are all beautiful doors through which one enters into ... and if one is physically restricted? By such a revolving door you can not possibly with crutches already squeezed by a / e wheelchair users may appropriate doors on the sides of the huge building looking for. The strike was until recently attached so that he was not reachable from a wheelchair (including, yes only decoration is), now the door was repositioned - as körpelich Restricted by the past winter semester came, I do not know. But further. We enter with our book to be delivered the representative lobby and will see a return machines - "The treatment works borrowed is fully automatic" (Morning Post) - ... and a queue of about 10 people. After we have just under 20 minutes queued - you would think that the operation of a primitive machine would be easier for students especially - to push our book we see how in the machine, it spits out time and again and says it does not belong to the stock. We face a second time, this time at the counter to be twice that long queue, for in the central library of a university with 30,000 students, only a return switch is open (that not all students will use this library may be outweighed by the fact that a public library). After about 40 minutes we finally got rid of the book, the question as to why the machine did not want it, the employee replied "Yes, it is sometimes ... sometimes it does not work right." - Oh, all right. Thank you!
A narrow stairway leads to the basement, where we found in too small a room full of lockers and frustrated black students: the so-called wardrobe. The lockers are so few that particularly clever fellow students appeared to have passed from the beginning to the doors in the open state zuzusperren and steal the key (a coin deposit need not here). More than half of the lockers are open, then, without a key - who has always taken may look forward to the monopoly of a locker in a public institution. This wardrobe is - in part by faulty construction, and partly by the resulting anti-social behavior of users - unusable. In rare cases, you caught someone who wants to go straight and can stand in line to grab a locker. Recently, the Grimm Center opened a second, makeshift dressing room, on the "cube": personal run, but only Mon-Fri (The library is open 7 days a week). Again, a snake, a pissed (!) - Otherwise you can not express it - and at worst painfully slow Angstellter that takes the jackets and bags. The coat rack is not enough, the majority is on the floor or on the red leather chairs (chic must be) stored. Our notebook, we must take under his arm, wearing the usual baskets are rare and are no longer seen after 10 clock. After about a
Hour we finally arrived in range of Germany's largest free-hand inventory, past the security, with a sense of security bomb, surrounded by vertical design that looks more like a prison than of a book shelf. We find our book and find a seat - at this point, all the laughing that have tried this art piece between 10 und 20 clock before. Available jobs are not at the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm center. Here, too, would like to beat the Kommilitonnen face, leave their things and go for several hours into the lunch break - then again, you really have a place - or use the coveted places to spend hours at prokrastinieren facebook as could make it the only center in fury! With 20 square kilometers proud main area can sometimes so much walking and climbing stairs, until you finally find a place. Whether the visually impressive reading room in which one each of the 1250 readers who find it place stops, turn on his water bottle or the other seats on the edge, which always books seekers on readers pass the worse evil, you must thereby not decide that because you had the choice between several Sitzpläten happens anyway in Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm center.
Suppose, too, is a success to us, now we just need the final hurdle master: rent. Our book previously belonged to the stock of three branch libraries, ie, in the Grimm-center, the three copies, each in different locations, say in the 3rd Floor, in the 4th OG and 5 in OG. What is quite realistic. We run all three sites - 20 square kilometers of main floor space - and find none of the three copies on the shelf, while the online catalog insisted all three were at the site. The employee tells us that probably would have to be somewhere in the house, there could not be helped. If something like a non-first happened, one does not even once - to be sure - to the shelves, but equal to the output. By the way, the further you go in the Grimm-Zentrum moves up, the worse the air, as well as the temperatures are unbearable in some places, what the site of the library with "The climate of such a large building is extremely complex, it takes time until all areas are air conditioned optimal." comments and asked for patience. Meanwhile, there were
a new coat check room personnel - (Every day since October patience "his time"?). The employee stated that his colleague has taken the jackets and bags with no apparent system on the ground and on the chairs and seeks appropriate length in the cluster. We finally have our belongings again, borrowed but not the book you want and we are several hours long run around the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm center, we can leave this facade of a library at last.
Had not the State Library at the time their own difficulties, we would love to pay like the user fee in order to avoid the wrath center.
beauty is known to be subjective, perhaps do not feel all reminiscent of prison bars and American cherry crushed. Meanwhile, the complaints have penetrated a number of innovations it is in the Grimm-type center soon, it is perhaps also functionally close to a library. By the winter semester should also the building code offenses are resolved - finally face up to 500,000 € fine. This can probably be harder on other concerned parties to deport when the responsibility - it's the Technical Department of the HU assumed the Architekturbro've done everything right, the Senate thereof, the Technical Department have everything checked, etc., so that ultimately all all have given nods blind. Since it appears that certainly no one has gone so far as to question the usability of the library, it would not be surprised if the missed wardrobe was actually built shortly before the opening in the vacant basement room - otherwise you can this chamber difficult to explain. Where körpelich limited users to store their things, remains a mystery. The Brothers Grimm probably rotate like propellers in their graves because their name has to serve for the press of a friendly museum Bilbiothek.
The occasion is the now defunct new Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm center, the central library of the Humboldt University in Berlin, stomped out of the ground last year and 19 November 2009 (after a one-month test run in which the most serious errors could be covered in advance) was officially opened. The long-awaited construction, were allowed to see the students as any other for quite a while rather than merely imposing cube of the train drew out, the Swiss architect Max Dudler . Whether - as is rumored among students - he has actually forgotten the original wardrobe so they had to subsequently find a place where even what was is another matter. In any event, the building is quite impressive, but unfortunately not live half as chic as the beautiful Bldern in the newspaper, but that's why it's also primarily (and exclusively) suitable for the press. The attack also fully equal to the proud joy that the Central Library of the HU now finally has its own building which also houses the largest continuous free-hand stock in the German speaking countries. With numbers will happily thrown around: € 75.5 million it cost to build, 1.5 million are from the 2.5 million items owned by the library freely available, there are 1250 seats to work, and the cherry ameikanisches become pride as such, the central reading room with 252 jobs is 70m long and 20m high usw.usf.
What the press does not know is that the new university library is simply dysfunctional and tragic at all imaginable levels. It bursts only seems like figures (see Arcguide entry), can be attributed to great photos to the gallery and generally follows the principle of "university would be a great place if there were no students." The number that makes for minimal reflection are already suspicious, the seats in the building ... The holdings of the central library and 12 branch libraries are combined in the Grimm-Zentrum - 1250 jobs But? I want to start over.
Let us imagine that we wish to make an already borrowed book in Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Center, read a book from the reference collection on the ground and hire a-loan book, and we see us as something in the new flagship library can go from Amsterdam (drawn from their own experiences of a student).
We are approaching the building - "Oh, this is great!" - At the front are all beautiful doors through which one enters into ... and if one is physically restricted? By such a revolving door you can not possibly with crutches already squeezed by a / e wheelchair users may appropriate doors on the sides of the huge building looking for. The strike was until recently attached so that he was not reachable from a wheelchair (including, yes only decoration is), now the door was repositioned - as körpelich Restricted by the past winter semester came, I do not know. But further. We enter with our book to be delivered the representative lobby and will see a return machines - "The treatment works borrowed is fully automatic" (Morning Post) - ... and a queue of about 10 people. After we have just under 20 minutes queued - you would think that the operation of a primitive machine would be easier for students especially - to push our book we see how in the machine, it spits out time and again and says it does not belong to the stock. We face a second time, this time at the counter to be twice that long queue, for in the central library of a university with 30,000 students, only a return switch is open (that not all students will use this library may be outweighed by the fact that a public library). After about 40 minutes we finally got rid of the book, the question as to why the machine did not want it, the employee replied "Yes, it is sometimes ... sometimes it does not work right." - Oh, all right. Thank you!
A narrow stairway leads to the basement, where we found in too small a room full of lockers and frustrated black students: the so-called wardrobe. The lockers are so few that particularly clever fellow students appeared to have passed from the beginning to the doors in the open state zuzusperren and steal the key (a coin deposit need not here). More than half of the lockers are open, then, without a key - who has always taken may look forward to the monopoly of a locker in a public institution. This wardrobe is - in part by faulty construction, and partly by the resulting anti-social behavior of users - unusable. In rare cases, you caught someone who wants to go straight and can stand in line to grab a locker. Recently, the Grimm Center opened a second, makeshift dressing room, on the "cube": personal run, but only Mon-Fri (The library is open 7 days a week). Again, a snake, a pissed (!) - Otherwise you can not express it - and at worst painfully slow Angstellter that takes the jackets and bags. The coat rack is not enough, the majority is on the floor or on the red leather chairs (chic must be) stored. Our notebook, we must take under his arm, wearing the usual baskets are rare and are no longer seen after 10 clock. After about a
Hour we finally arrived in range of Germany's largest free-hand inventory, past the security, with a sense of security bomb, surrounded by vertical design that looks more like a prison than of a book shelf. We find our book and find a seat - at this point, all the laughing that have tried this art piece between 10 und 20 clock before. Available jobs are not at the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm center. Here, too, would like to beat the Kommilitonnen face, leave their things and go for several hours into the lunch break - then again, you really have a place - or use the coveted places to spend hours at prokrastinieren facebook as could make it the only center in fury! With 20 square kilometers proud main area can sometimes so much walking and climbing stairs, until you finally find a place. Whether the visually impressive reading room in which one each of the 1250 readers who find it place stops, turn on his water bottle or the other seats on the edge, which always books seekers on readers pass the worse evil, you must thereby not decide that because you had the choice between several Sitzpläten happens anyway in Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm center.
Suppose, too, is a success to us, now we just need the final hurdle master: rent. Our book previously belonged to the stock of three branch libraries, ie, in the Grimm-center, the three copies, each in different locations, say in the 3rd Floor, in the 4th OG and 5 in OG. What is quite realistic. We run all three sites - 20 square kilometers of main floor space - and find none of the three copies on the shelf, while the online catalog insisted all three were at the site. The employee tells us that probably would have to be somewhere in the house, there could not be helped. If something like a non-first happened, one does not even once - to be sure - to the shelves, but equal to the output. By the way, the further you go in the Grimm-Zentrum moves up, the worse the air, as well as the temperatures are unbearable in some places, what the site of the library with "The climate of such a large building is extremely complex, it takes time until all areas are air conditioned optimal." comments and asked for patience. Meanwhile, there were
a new coat check room personnel - (Every day since October patience "his time"?). The employee stated that his colleague has taken the jackets and bags with no apparent system on the ground and on the chairs and seeks appropriate length in the cluster. We finally have our belongings again, borrowed but not the book you want and we are several hours long run around the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm center, we can leave this facade of a library at last.
Had not the State Library at the time their own difficulties, we would love to pay like the user fee in order to avoid the wrath center.
"Well it should be, functional and timeless." (Arcguide)
beauty is known to be subjective, perhaps do not feel all reminiscent of prison bars and American cherry crushed. Meanwhile, the complaints have penetrated a number of innovations it is in the Grimm-type center soon, it is perhaps also functionally close to a library. By the winter semester should also the building code offenses are resolved - finally face up to 500,000 € fine. This can probably be harder on other concerned parties to deport when the responsibility - it's the Technical Department of the HU assumed the Architekturbro've done everything right, the Senate thereof, the Technical Department have everything checked, etc., so that ultimately all all have given nods blind. Since it appears that certainly no one has gone so far as to question the usability of the library, it would not be surprised if the missed wardrobe was actually built shortly before the opening in the vacant basement room - otherwise you can this chamber difficult to explain. Where körpelich limited users to store their things, remains a mystery. The Brothers Grimm probably rotate like propellers in their graves because their name has to serve for the press of a friendly museum Bilbiothek.
Links:
Arcguide to Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Center
The morning post opening
The Independent on barrier Grimm-Zentrum (Margaret current Kowski)
The website of the Grimm Center
Towards Usability: "improvements" in the Grimm-Zentrum
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