Abstract
As early as 1777, the Library of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna was founded. The following article gives brief overview of its history. In previous treatises upon the library’s history, the period of the Third Reich had always been highly neglected. Inspired by similar projects at other Austrian universities, the Library of the University of Veterinary Medicine has recently begun with provenance research in order to come to terms with its past between 1938 and 1945.