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Library Attractions In Austria

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Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of nearly 9 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Hungary and Slovakia to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers 83,879 km2 . The terrain is highly mountainous, lying within the Alps; only 32% of the country is below 500 m , and its highest point is 3,798 m . The majority of the population speaks local Bavarian dialects of German as their native language, and German in its standard form is the country's official language. Other local official ...
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Library Attractions In Austria

  • 1. State Hall of the Austrian National Library Vienna
    The Wienbibliothek im Rathaus , formerly known as the Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek , is a library and archive containing important documents related to the history of Vienna, Austria. Founded in 1856, the library, which also contains a large collection of local memorabilia, is located in the Rathaus in the Innere Stadt first district of the city, and is the official library of the city and state of Vienna.The Wienbibliothek preserves 500,000 books, 2,000 newspapers and magazines, 300,000 posters, 500,000 autographs, notable bequests and legacies, and one of the most important music collections in the world. Much of the collection can be retrieved through the online user interface available in both German and English. The library is part of the Magistrat der Stadt Wien and supervised ...
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  • 3. University Library Klagenfurt
    The Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt , or University of Klagenfurt, is a federal Austrian university and the largest research and higher education institution in the Austrian province Carinthia. It has its central campus in Klagenfurt. Founded in 1970, the university today holds faculties of Humanities & Social Sciences, Management & Economics, Technology, and Interdisciplinary Studies. It ranks among the 150 best young universities worldwide in the QS World University Rankings.The university has defined two areas of research excellence, Networked and Autonomous Systems and Social Ecology , with the latter spawning three ERC Grants. It is going to launch a new excellence initiative, Humans in the Digital Age , in 2019. It also hosts a number of central facilities such as the Robert Musi...
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  • 4. City Library Salzburg
    Salzburg , literally salt castle, is the fourth-largest city in Austria and the capital of Salzburg state. Salzburg's historic centre is internationally renowned for its baroque architecture and is one of the best-preserved city centres and has 27 churches north of the Alps. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. The city has three universities and a large population of students. Tourists also visit Salzburg to tour the historic centre and the scenic Alpine surroundings. Salzburg was the birthplace of 18th-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In the mid‑20th century, the city was the setting for the musical play and film The Sound of Music.
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  • 5. Archives of the Austrian Resistance Vienna
    The kilogram or kilogramme is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units , and is defined as being equal to the mass of the International Prototype of the Kilogram , a cylinder of platinum-iridium alloy stored by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures at Saint-Cloud, France. A new standard, defined in terms of invariant constants of nature, is expected to take effect in 2019.The kilogram was originally defined as the mass of a litre of water at its freezing point. That was an inconvenient quantity to precisely replicate, so in the late 18th century a platinum artefact was fashioned as a standard for the kilogram. That artefact, or an exact replica thereof, has been the standard of the unit of mass for the metric system ever since. Though the IPK, the current prima...
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