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| Location | Zürich |
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| Coordinates | 47°22′27″N8°32′43″E / 47.3742°N 8.5453°E /47.3742; 8.5453 |
| Heritage designation | class B Swiss cultural property of regional significance  |
| Member of | Association of Zurich Museums Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries International GLAM Labs Community Kalliope Memoriav International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Director | Priska Bucher |
| Website | www |
Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Zürich Central Library) is alibrary inZürich, Switzerland. It is the main library of both the city and theUniversity of Zurich, housed in thePredigerkloster, the former Black Friars' abbey, in the old town'sRathaus quarter.
TheZentralbibliothek currently houses some 5.1 million items, among these 3.9 million printed volumes, 124,000 manuscripts, 243,000 maps and 560,000 microfiches.
The library was founded in 1914 by a merger of the former cantonal and city libraries. Its history ultimately goes back to theStiftsbibliothek of theGrossmünster abbey, first attested in 1259. Much of the abbey's library was lost in theSwiss Reformation, especially in an incident ofbook burning on 14 September 1525, reducing it to a total inventory of 470 volumes. From 1532,Konrad Pellikan (1478–1556) began rebuilding theStiftsbibliothek, especially with the purchase ofZwingli's private library, and the library catalogue in 1551 lists 770 volumes. The city library had been established in 1634, and its policy to allow access only to citizens of Zürich led to disputes with the university, which led to the establishment of a cantonal library in 1835, built from some 3,500 volumes with 14,000 titles of theStiftsbibliothek, some 340 volumes of the recent University Library (since 1833) and some 1,700 volumes of theGymnasiumsbibliothek (since 1827).
Predigerkirche and the adjointMusikabteilung (literally: music department) are listed in theSwiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance as aClass object.[1][2]
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