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| name = Seminary Library, Ljubljana | | name = Seminary Library, Ljubljana | ||
| localname = Semeniška knjižnica v Ljubljani | | localname = Semeniška knjižnica v Ljubljani | ||
− | | street | + | | street = Bogoslovno semenišče Ljubljana, Dolničarjeva 4 |
+ | | town = SI-1000 Ljubljana | ||
| telephone = 386 (0) 1 433 6109 | | telephone = 386 (0) 1 433 6109 | ||
| fax = 386 (0) 1 431 0101 | | fax = 386 (0) 1 431 0101 | ||
− | | email = info.semenisce.ljubljana | + | | email = info.semenisce.ljubljana@rkc.si |
| website = http://www.rkc.si/semenisce-lj/main.htm?page=predstavitev/knjiznica.htm | | website = http://www.rkc.si/semenisce-lj/main.htm?page=predstavitev/knjiznica.htm | ||
| contacts = {{Contact | | contacts = {{Contact |
Revision as of 11:38, 31 March 2010
Background
The idea to establish a scientific library accessible to the wider public was born in Academia operosorum Labacensis, which was led by the provost Janez Krstnik Prešern. The members of the academy strove to modernise the city with setting up of new institutions, one of them being a new library. The founding charter of the new library was signed by the provost, by the cathedral dean Janez Anton Dolničar, and by the Ljubljana bishop Sigmund Herberstein, who agreed the new library be opened during the day, the books would not be lent, and the contents would comprise also personal collections of the deceased academy members.
The library grew when the library founders passed away, their books were kept and when a new seminary - Charles Institute - started to be build in 1708, there were also designs for the library hall. In 1721 its ceiling was painted by the Italian painter Giulio Quaglio who previously worked at the cathedral, and the carpenter and carver Joseph Wergant provided beautiful oak cabinets and bookshelves in 1725. When a Regional Academic Library was founded by the Empress Maria Theresa in 1774 in Ljubljana, the seminary library remained available to the priests and seminarians. When the University of Ljubljana was founded in 1919, a new library of the Faculty of Theology was established. The Baroque library nevertheless remains open to the public with a prior notification.