Central Library of Politehnica University of Timișoara
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| Central Library of Politehnica University | |
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| Biblioteca Centrală a Universității Politehnica | |
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| 45°44′49″N 21°13′43″E / 45.74694°N 21.22861°E | |
| Location | 2B Vasile Pârvan Boulevard, Timișoara |
| Type | Academic library |
| Established | 1920 |
| Collection | |
| Size | 700,000 volumes |
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| Director | Florin Bodin |
| Parent organization | Politehnica University of Timișoara |
| Website | library |
The Central Library of Politehnica University is the library of the Politehnica University of Timișoara. Between 1947 and 2014 it functioned in the Piarist High School ensemble.
The library was established with the Polytechnic Institute by royal decree in 1920. The activity of the library was started in the building of the primary school on Carol Telbisz Street, where it was active until 1947, when its collections were moved to the headquarters on Piatra Craiului Street.[1]
The first librarian mentioned in the institute's yearbooks was Eustațiu Pandele. On 15 March 1921, he registered the first book in the library's patrimony: Béton armé. Abaques pratiques pour l'établissement des hourdis et des poteaux, a French-language work published by M. Corset, a French engineer, in Paris in 1920.[2] After only one year, in which he worked alone, followed a period of 16 years in which, in addition to the librarian, there is also mentioned a room warden, which demonstrates the increase in the number of publications and the number of readers. The activity of the library continued in all the past years, parallel to the activity of the institute, it being the one that provided the material support of the students' training and of the research activity.[3]
Because it was located in the center of Timișoara, but far from some faculties, the library had specialized branches at the faculties of Chemistry, Electro, Mechanics and Construction. Following the retrocession of the Piarist ensemble to the Catholic Church, a new headquarters was built for the library on Vasile Pârvan Boulevard, near the mentioned faculties, so that the branches were merged there. Construction work on the new building took eight years and cost about 16 million euros.[4] The last 100 books were symbolically moved to the new location on 12 November 2014 by a human chain of 1,000 students.[5]
