Baselland Cantonal Library
| Baselland Cantonal Library | |
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 The KBL seen from the train station
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| founding | June 1, 2005 |
| Duration | 150,000 |
| Library type | Cantonal library |
| place | Liestal |
| ISIL | CH-000040-3 |
| Website | www.kbl.ch |
The canton library Baselland (KBL) in Liestal is a library in the canton of Basel-Landschaft . In addition to the book rental, the building is used for educational exhibitions and events.
history
Five years after the founding of the canton of Basel-Landschaft, the canton library was opened in 1838 . It was created by politicians to improve education and promote the documentation of local history. She was given several bibliophile works dating back to the 16th century. The canton library developed only slowly and in 1938 had a range of around thirty thousand volumes. With the opening of the open access library in 1984, the offer was updated and made available to a wider public. After the offer was expanded to include digital media and the introduction on Sundays, usage increased. Because of this, she moved from the premises of the courthouse on Poststrasse near the train station to a former wine warehouse on Emma-Herwegh-Platz next to Bahnhofplatz. On June 1, 2005 the new canton library was opened. Today it has around a thousand visitors a day.
Duration
The cantonal library has eighty thousand media of divergent nature for different target groups. It offers electronic media for download. In addition, there are two hundred thousand volumes in their magazines .
As a study and educational library, the canton library complements the book and media offerings of the school and community libraries in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. It collects and communicates text, audio and visual material about the Basel region and from Basel-based authors.
use
The entire range of the cantonal library can be found in its online catalog . In 2012, around eight hundred and fifty thousand media were loaned out.
literature
- Otto Gass: One hundred years of the Baselland Cantonal Library 1838–1938. Lüdin, Liestal 1938.
- Gerhard Matter: The Baselbieter library landscape 1974–1994. In: Open to everyone. Libraries on new paths. Festschrift for Dr. Fredy Gröbli, Director of the Public Library at the University of Basel. Public library of the University of Basel, Basel 1995, ISBN 3-85953-065-8 , pp. 174-185.
- Gerhard Matter: Baselland Cantonal Library. A sphinx lifts her veil and moves. In: Baselbieter Heimatbuch. 24, 2003, pp. 211-224.
- Hubertus Adam: Everything under one roof. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. June 17, 2005.
- Sabine von Fischer: Think inside and beyond. Liechti Graf Zumsteg Architects. Cantonal library Baselland Liestal . In: werk, build + Wohnen. Vol. 10, 2005, pp. 22-27.
- Rahel Hartmann Schweizer: À la - o'la la. The new cantonal library in Liestal by Liechti Graf Zumsteg. In: tec21. December 3, 2005, pp. 8-13.
- Ines Goldbach (ed.): New architecture Upper Rhine. Merian, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-85616-318-1 , pp. 202-205.
- Christiane Gabler: catalyst for urban development. Baselland Cantonal Library in Liestal. In: Bauwelt. 97/8, 2006, pp. 26-31.