Ministry library
How to use the libraryCatalogue of the libraryCosts per copyLibrary holdingsMission statement of the libraryHistory of the library
Specialised academic library for tax and customs matters, public administration and administrative reform, state budget, finance, banking, credit and insurance matters
Address
- Library – Department I/3
- 1st floor – F16
- Hintere Zollamtsstraße 2b
- A-1030 Vienna
- How to find us
Opening hours
- Mon-Thu 8.00-16.00 h (in-house journal services to 17.30 h)
- Fri 8.00-15.45 h
Contact
- Tel.: +43 (0) 1 51433-501143
- E-mail :
How to use the library
The library is freely accessible to the public. You are asked to give prior notice of your visit. It is necessary for visitors to produce photographic ID (official ID, student ID).
Catalogue of the library
Book catalogue
- Works from 1501-1909
- Holdings may only be researched at the library
Card catalogue
- Works from acquisition year 1909 to 2002
- Holdings may only be researched at the library
Online catalogue
- Works from acquisition year 2003, being expanded retrospectively to acquisition year 1960
- Historical subject category holdings:
- General political science (sig. III)
- Finance (sig. VI)
- Revenue legislation (sig. XV)
- Economics (sig. V)
- Constitutional and administration law (sig. IX)
- International law, international conventions (sig. X)
- Statutory collections (sig. XI)
- Documentation of holdings in the Austrian Libraries Union catalogue [Österreichischer Verbundkatalog]
A photocopier and a research computer are available to visitors. Copies of historical holdings will be prepared by library staff where their condition permits.
Costs per copy
for A4 and A3, currently:
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Administrative assistance (within the fiscal administration, employees of other ministries) |
free of charge |
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Students (researchers) |
EUR 0.07 |
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Others (law firms, commercial researchers) |
EUR 0.35 |
Library holdings
The library currently has holdings encompassing approx. 200,000 volumes and approx. 750 domestic and foreign specialist journals on the following subject matter areas:
- Tax
- Customs
- Public administration
- Budget
- Finance
- Banking
- Credit sector
- Insurance sector
The library does not provide any legal advice (e.g. information on tax files).
With total holdings of approx. 200,000 volumes, the library’s historical book holdings (prior to 1900) constitute approx. 50,000 volumes, of which approx. 5,000 titles are unique items and/or rare books.
Noteworthy holdings:
- Kaysers Ferdinandi Newe Müntz Ordnung, Vienna, 1560 (sig: XV.30)
- Riezinger J.B.: Beschreibung des Hallstätter Salzbergwerkes etc., Hallstatt, 1713 (sig: VII.b.179)
- Constitutio criminalis Theresiana oder der römisch-kaiserlich zu Hungarn und Böheim u.u. königlich apostolischen Majestät Mariä Theresiä Erzherzogin zu Oesterreich, u.u. peinliche Gerichtsordnung, Vienna, 1769 (sig: XVI.77)
Mission statement of the library
The primary purpose of the library is to provide information and literature to the Central Management of the Federal Ministry of Finance.
History of the library
Austria’s most significant and comprehensive tax and finance library through the years:
- 1810: First reference to the existence of a library in the Hofkammer-Präsidium
- 1848: Dissolution of Hofkammer. Library is incorporated into newly established Ministry of Finance at Winterpalais Prinz Eugen, Himmelpfortgasse 8.
- 1947: Finance library is separated from finance archives.
- 2003: Introduction of electronic library management system Aleph; library is incorporated into the Austrian Academic Libraries Union.
- 2007: Beginning of general renovations to Palais Prinz Eugen. Finance Ministry, with library, is moved to Hintere Zollamtsstraße 2b.
- 2008: Beginning of targeted electronic retrospective conversion of library holdings prior to acquisition year 2003.
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