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e-rara.ch

http://www.e-rara.ch/

The e-rara.ch platform makes digitized rare books from Swiss libraries available to the public, free of charge. The present focus is on 16th century Swiss prints. Further collections concern astronomy, architecture and urbanism, mathematics and physics.

All the documents are online available.

E-rara.ch is a national collaborative project forming part of the Swiss innovation and cooperation programme E-lib.ch: Swiss Electronic library. The project is run by the Bibliothèque de Genève, the ETH-Bibliothek Zurich, the University Library of Basel, the University Library of Bern, and Zurich Central Library. Other Swiss libraries participating in the project are: the BPU Neuchâtel, the Bibliothèque des Pasteurs, the BCU Lausanne, and the BCU Fribourg.

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E-Lib.ch
Type: 
online
Lang: 
English
French
German
Country: 
Switzerland
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free of costs
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27.07.2010
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E-Lib - Swiss electronic library
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Swiss Federal Archives (SFA) - Fonds overview

https://www.swiss-archives.ch/iframe.aspx?link=tree/tree

The fonds overview gives a systematic account of all pertinence fonds and sub-fonds of Main Department E (Federal State since 1848) in nine chapters.

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Publisher: 
Swiss Federal Archives (SFA)
Type: 
online
Lang: 
English
French
German
Italian
Country: 
Switzerland
Format: 
application/pdf - *.pdf - AdobePDFfiles
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free of costs
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10.05.2010
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Geneva Jewish Library - On-line Catalogue

http://biblio.comisra.ch/biblio/rechercheEng.htm

On-line catalogue of the Geneva Jewish Library "Gérard Nordmann" with about 35'000 books and magazines.

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Publisher: 
Geneva Jewish Library
Type: 
online
Lang: 
English
French
Country: 
Switzerland
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text/html - *.htm*.html*.shtml - HTMLfiles
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free of costs
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03.06.2010
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Geneva Jewish Library "Gérard Nordmann"

http://biblio.comisra.ch/biblio/defaulteng.htm
Characteristics
History

The library was founded in 1945 by the American Jewish Labor Committee (AJLC) and the Oeuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE).

Inventory

The Geneva Jewish Library disposes of more than about 30'000 volumes. It encloses a part (about 1000 volumes) of the collections of the library of the rabbi's seminar of Wroclaw which was destroyed by the Nazis. It also owns a manuscript of David Gans, the Sefer Nehmad ve-naïm, resulted in 1613 in Prague.

Remarks: 

Opening hours:
Mo 16.00-19.00; Tu 16.00-19.00; We 10.00-12.00 and 14.00-17.00,

Postal address
21, av. Dumas
1206
Genève
Switzerland
Contact
http://biblio.comisra.ch/biblio/renseignementspratiques.htm
markishj@comisra.ch
Phone number: 
+41 22 317 89 70
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03.06.2010
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Münchhausen Library

http://www.muenchhausen.ch/

The Münchhausens library documents the phenomenon Münchhausen for the time of 1760 till today. It intends to unite publications into as many languages as possible, to get hold of original editions of the early time and to the literary sources and to provide evidence of the treatment of the material in different media.

The Münchhausen's library encloses approx. 3,100 unities. There exists none publicly accessible catalogue. Now and then appear lists of branches on the website.

Elle documente le phénomène Münchhausen pour le temps de 1760 jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Avec cela elle prend en considération non seulement les aventures du baron dans leur diversité, mais encore des matériaux qui peuvent servir à l'examen de la formation et de l'histoire d'illustration qui couvrent la réception du phénomène ainsi qu'illustrent l'histoire contemporaine près de 1800.
La bibliothèque de Münchhausen comprend environ 3.100 unités. Il n'existe pas de catalogue public. Des listes de branches particulier apparaissent de temps en temps sur le site web.

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Editor: 
Bernhard Wiebel
Publisher: 
Münchhausen-Bibliothek
Type: 
online
Lang: 
English
German
Country: 
Switzerland
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29.07.2010
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Swiss Federal Archives (SFA) - Selected topics

http://www.bar.admin.ch/archivgut/00591/index.html?lang=en

The Swiss Federal Archives (SFA) provide in-depth historical information and research tips on selected current topics or topics which are frequently sought after.
Selected topics: Family History; Emigration and immigration; Displaced persons and travellers; Famous personalities; About Switzerland; The old Confederation; Switzerland and the world; The State, the People and the authorities; The Army; The Second World War; State security; Market and state; Trains, Ships, Planes; Photos, plans, film and audio.

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Publisher: 
Swiss Federal Archives (SFA)
Type: 
online
Lang: 
English
French
German
Italian
Country: 
Switzerland
Format: 
application/pdf - *.pdf - AdobePDFfiles
text/html - *.htm*.html*.shtml - HTMLfiles
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free of costs
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10.05.2010
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Swiss Federal Archives (SFA)

http://www.bar.admin.ch/index.html?lang=en
Characteristics
History

The SFA were founded in 1798, at the dawn of the Helvetic Republic. Most of the files and documents stem from the period following 1798.

Publications

The Swiss Federal Archives (SFA) publish historical texts and auxiliary booklets. Different documents are online available to the following subjects: Studies and sources, Federal Archives dossier, inventories, auxiliary texts and further publications.

Research

The Swiss Federal Archives (SFA) preserve documents from the Federal Administration and the political bodies of the Federal State. The archive records for the most part consist of paper files, but there are also photos, audio and film documents as well as digital data.
The SFA has also been entrusted with over 550 private archives of people and organisations with close ties to the Federal State.

Inventory

Documents from the activity of the organs of the Swiss state (Federal administration, Federal Council and parliament) since the Helvetic Republic till the present. Personal papers of individuals and non-governmental institutions, that has played an essential role in the areas of politics, administration, army and science of history in the 19th and 20th century in Switzerland. Dossiers on particular subjects, events and personalities. Files of Swiss associations abroad, congresses and conferences as well as of Swiss regiments in foreign services. Important collection of copied Swiss-historical documents of foreign archives and libraries.
The files in the SFA are organised into 8 main departments:
-Central Archive of the Helvetic Republic 1798-1803 (Main Department B)
-Archive of the Mediation Period 1803-1813 (Main Department C)
-Archive of the Tagsatzung Period 1814-1848 (Main Department D)
-Archive of the Federal State since 1848 (Main Department E)
-Deposits and Donations (Private Archives and Bequests) (Main Department J)
-Acts and Charters (Main Department K)
-Collections (Main Department M)
-Copies (Main Department P)
The systematic fonds overview (SYFO) gives online an overview of the eight main departments and the fonds contained therein.

Remarks: 

Opening hours:
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 09:00 to 19:00.
Staff at the SFA are on hand to support you with your research (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from 9:30 to 12:00 and from 13:00 to 15:00).

Postal address
Archivstraße 24
3003
Bern
Switzerland
Contact
http://www.bar.admin.ch/org/00453/index.html?lang=en
bundesarchiv@bar.admin.ch
Phone number: 
+41 31 322 89 89
Fax: 
+41 31 322 78 23
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10.05.2010
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Swiss Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SSECS)

http://www.sgeaj.ch/en/
Characteristics
History

Foundation: 1991.

Publications

The SSECS publishes the series Travaux, a Bulletin and occasional special issues.

Organization

The aim of the SSECS is the promotion of research into the intellectual, social, economic and political life of the eighteenth century, primarily in Switzerland.

Postal address
Prof. Dr. Simone Zurbuchen
Belpstr. 49
3007
Bern
Switzerland
Contact
http://www.sgeaj.ch/en/contact.php
info@sgeaj.ch
simone.zurbuchen@unifr.ch
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20.07.2010

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Chair of History of the Modern World [Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich]

http://www.gmw.ethz.ch/index_EN
Characteristics
History

Fomrer chair of modern history.

Research

History of South Asia (18th - 20th century); Society and politics in India (20th - 21th century); History of development policy; History of Latin America; History of Great Britain and of the British Empire; Colonialism and Imperialsim; History of intercultural relations and transfer of knowledge; Indigenism, indegnious migration and ethnicity; History of Marxism; Transnational and global history; Politics of the past and collective memory; History of devlopment co-operation; History of Africa, Slavery studies, Gender and intersectionality.
Projects

Postal address
ETH Zürich
Rämistrasse 101
8092
Zürich
Switzerland
Contact
http://www.gmw.ethz.ch/contact/index_EN
beatrice.schatzmann@gmw.gess.ethz.ch
Phone number: 
+41 44 632 62 82
Fax: 
+41 44 632 15 42
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Prof. Dr. Harald Fischer-Tiné (head of department)
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Abbey Library of St. Gallen

http://www.stiftsbibliothek.ch
Characteristics
History

The library is attested for the first time by the Saint Galler Klosterplan (around 820). Major medieval centre of the writing and book painting. Since 1553 in a library building. In in 1758-1767 construction of the baroque Hall, which remains till this day the main depository of historical books.

Inventory

The Abbey Library of St. Gallen holds about 160'000 documents. 1650 incunabula, numerous early prints, important holdings from the 2nd half of 18. Century, but also from the time of late Humanism and Confessionalism. Main focuses in theology, history and the antique classics. About 2'000 manuscripts (400 Vols. from before 1000 A.D.). Irish manuscripts, Old German texts, archives from Aegidius Tschudi.
An overview of the collections is online available.

Remarks: 

The Abbey Library of St. Gallen is the oldest library in Switzerland. The Abbey Library and the entire abbey precinct in St. Gallen were included in the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage sites in 1983.

Postal address
Postfach
Klosterhof 6D
9004
St. Gallen
Switzerland
Contact
http://www.stiftsbibliothek.ch/site/content.asp?typ=Kontakt%2FLinks&lang=DE&art=...
stibi@stibi.ch
Phone number: 
+71 227 34 16
Fax: 
+71 227 34 18
Additional contacts: 
Opening times: Monday to Saturday: 10 - 17 Sunday: 10 - 16
Staff
Direction
Abbey Librarian: Prof. Dr. phil. Ernst Tremp
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