Library of the year
Presentation of the “Library of the Year 2015” award to the Cologne City Library
The German Library Association awards since 2000 to the Zeit Foundation donated Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius Price Library of the Year at the Library Day and at the place of the winner.
The Library of the Year award is the national library award in Germany. This award is intended to contribute to the new image of the libraries. The award recognizes libraries of all types and sizes and is endowed with 20,000 euros (as of 2020).
In addition to the national library award, a prize worth 7,000 euros was awarded for the first time in 2020 for the library of the year in small municipalities and regions .
Above-average performance of any kind is awarded
- customer-oriented service improvements
- innovative ideas and their successful implementation in all areas of library activity: information service, user training, management, marketing, information services,
- Document delivery, program for individual target groups or topics
- effective public relations work for the library
- Maintenance and development of the book as a cultural asset
- particular success in the use of new technologies
- committed involvement of partners (e.g. groups of friends)
- Contributions to the optimization of library work
- special ideas for the construction and furnishing of a library building
- Participation in projects ( e.g. library index (BIX) and media competence centers ) and initiation of projects and joint ventures
- Assumption of responsibility in the library system (e.g. holding conferences and assuming functions)
- successful third-party funding initiatives
Library of the year
- 2000: Heinrich Heine City Library in Halberstadt
- 2001: Johannes a Lasco Library in Emden
- 2002: Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen
- 2003: Würzburg City Library
- 2004: Dresden City Libraries
- 2005: Hamm City Libraries
- 2006: Information, communication and media center of the Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus
- 2007: Prison library of the Münster correctional facility
- 2008: Bavarian State Library
- 2009: Biberach an der Riss city library
- 2010: Library of the University of Konstanz
- 2011: Anton Saefkow Library, Berlin-Lichtenberg
- 2012: Library of the Technical University Wildau (FH)
- 2013: Stuttgart City Library
- 2014: German Central Library for Economics
- 2015: Cologne City Library
- 2016: Hilden City Library
- 2017: Leipzig University Library
- 2018: Frankfurt am Main city library
- 2019: Central and State Library Berlin
- 2020: Technical Information Library , Hanover
Library of the year in small communities and regions
- 2020: Gotha City Library
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Library of the year 2007 / The prison library of the JVA Münster
- ↑ Press release of the DBV. Retrieved July 1, 2014.
- ^ German Library Association e. V .: dbv - press_details. In: www.bibliotheksverband.de. August 11, 2015, accessed August 12, 2015 .
- ^ German Library Association eV: Library of the Year 2016. In: www.bibliotheksverband.de. Retrieved October 23, 2016 .
- ^ German Library Association eV: Digitally autonomous, freely accessible and highly innovative. In: www.bibliotheksverband.de. Retrieved June 22, 2017 .
- ^ German Library Association: Library of the Year 2018. Retrieved October 24, 2018 .
- ^ Deutscher Bibliotheksverband eV Press release of May 23, 2019 , accessed on May 23, 2019
- ↑ Library of the Year 2020 , bibliotheksverband.de, accessed on June 16, 2020
- ↑ Library of the Year 2020 , bibliotheksverband.de, accessed on June 16, 2020