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Index Card Catalogues

The Index Card Catalogues consist of scanned, mainly handwritten cards. These handwritten entries made automatic text recognition impossible. Every 50th card was manually recorded and made searchable. These cards, spaced at intervals of every 50th entry, are the index cards.

If you have problems trying to identify the book number, please read this Help Page or contact Information. Please indicate, if possible, the catalogue card’s Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) which is listed under every card.

To order these media, please follow the indicated hyperlinks or use our order form. Please note that you cannot borrow the following materials for home use but must read them in the Special Reading Room. In order to access these materials you must identify yourself to staff with your passport or identity card:

  • Books published before 1900
  • Particularly valuable titles
  • Maps
  • Typed Dissertations
  • Marburg Diploma Theses insofar as they are part of the University Library holdings.

  • Marburg University Library Central Alphabetical Catalogue (Pre-1929)

    Contents
    Book holdings in the Central University Library and decentralized Branch Libraries up to publication year 1929. Titles before 1929 can also be found in Katalog Plus.
    Sorting Criteria
    The titles are sorted within a common alphabet: monographs with 1-3 authors are entered under the name of the first author, Titles with more than three authors, or without any, are usually entered under the first grammatically independent noun in the title. If the entry words are the same, then titles are sorted first, followed by author names (Example: “Goethe in his Time” is sorted before Goethe, Johann Wolfgang).
    Information on the book numbers in the union catalogue can be found on this Help Page.

  • Marburg University Library (UB) Dissertation Catalogue (pre-1986)

    Contents
    Card Catalogue containing dissertations, habilitation theses, and school academic papers in the University Library holdings up to publication year 1986.
    Sorting Criteria
    The title cards are generally sorted according to author surnames and author first names. Within identical author names the title cards are sorted chronologically.
    Information on the book numbers is available on this Help Page.

  • Catalogue of University Treatises and Publications (pre-1986)

    Contents
    University calendars, annual reports, and other writings published by universities and academic institutions up to publication year 1986.
    Sorting Criteria
    The writings are sorted chronologically, first according to university location, then under the name of the individual university.
    Information on the book numbers is available on this Help Page.

  • Marburg University Library Catalogue of School Writings

    Contents
    School programmes (school news, academic treatises, reports, etc.) of German universities in the holdings of Marburg University Library (centred on the period 1870-1930 but with no limitation on publication dates). The academic treatises, which may be contained in the school programmes, are to be found under the author’s name in the Central Library Dissertation Catalogue.
    Sorting Criteria
    The entries are sorted according to school location. The individual schools in each location are numbered consecutively. Information on the book numbers is available on this Help Page.