Patient library
Patient Library is a hospital library specifically aimed at patients .
The offer is similar to that of city and church libraries , but focuses primarily on entertainment literature .
For patients, the patient library is not infrequently one of the few ways to make everyday hospital life a little more varied. For patients who cannot leave their room on their own, a selection is often made from room to room.
It is in the nature of a patient library that the books are intended for patients only. Library cards , lending fees are usually not applicable. The books must be returned at the latest on discharge.
literature
- Burghard Gassner: Hospital patients as library users (= dbi-materialien 80). German Library Institute, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-87068-880-7 .
- Detlef Schwarz (Ed.): Guidelines for patient libraries (= dbi-materialien 138). German Library Institute, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-87068-938-2 .
- o. V .: The patient library. A contribution to humanity in the hospital (= dbi-materialien 11). German Library Institute, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-87068-811-4 .
- Detlefs, Beate: The library was my salvation. Website of the Goethe Institute, goethe.de [1]