City and regional library Erfurt
| City and regional library Erfurt | |
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| founding | October 3, 1897 |
| Duration | approx. 528,000 |
| Library type | library |
| place | Erfurt , Thuringia |
| ISIL | DE-63 |
| Website | www.erfurt.de/bibliothek |
The Erfurt City and Regional Library is the largest public library in Thuringia . Its holdings of approx. 528,000 media (including approx. 270,000 magazine holdings) are distributed across the main library on Domplatz , seven branches and the mobile library .
history
With a holdings of 3,000 volumes, the Erfurt Public Library was opened on October 3, 1897, as the city of Erfurt's second large library. With the exception of the period of the First World War , the steadily increasing number of users enabled the continuous expansion of the inventory and the opening of branches in Erfurt districts. The National Socialist cultural policy and the Second World War marked a new turning point in the history of the library. It was not until September 1946 that regular lending operations could begin. In 1956 a bookbinding and repair workshop was founded. In 1957 the newly created music library made it possible to borrow records. In 1969 the public library and the scientific library were merged to form the "Scientific General Library Erfurt". Since 1976, pictures can also be borrowed from the so-called Artothek . In 1990 CD lending was added, and in 1993 the video library was opened. In 1997 the Erfurt General Scientific Library was renamed "Erfurt City and Regional Library" shortly before its centenary. Since then, the expansion of the media and support services - such as the use of e-media, online lending, internet workstations for visitors, library café, reading terrace, etc. a. - The services of the Erfurt City and Regional Library expanded. In 2020 the so-called Extrathek (main focus: board and console games) was opened.
Duration
Open access
The open access portfolio includes:
- Media on various subjects and areas of knowledge (such as economics, state and law, history, religion, pedagogy, sport, art, geography, nature, traffic) as well as fiction (e.g. novels, stories, sagas, poems) .
- Media in different forms, printed or digital, physical or virtual.
- Media for different user groups (e.g. children, schoolchildren, trainees, students, adults, professionals in training and further education, senior citizens).
In addition, the Erfurt City and Regional Library has a sheet music library and a collection of art reproductions that has emerged from the former Artothek .
The collection of historical and regional literature with a focus on Thuringia and Erfurt is combined in a separate department.
Historical inventory
The historical holdings include historical media collections (approx. 266,000 titles) of various origins, which today's Erfurt City and Regional Library acquired in the course of its history through purchase, donation or allocation.
These include, for example, the Bibliotheca Amploniana (from the 15th century) or the Bibliotheca Boineburgica (from the 17th century). All these collections up to the year 1800 were entrusted to the re-founded University of Erfurt as permanent loan in 2001 by the city of Erfurt for professional storage and scientific processing .
Also the so-called “ high school library”, which goes back to the private library of the Mainz governor in Erfurt, Karl Theodor von Dalberg (1744-1817), or the Hugo Neumann library, one of the rare closed libraries of a once commercially operated lending library from the At the beginning of the 20th century, are in the Erfurt library. There are also collections from the GDR era, such as B. historical children's books, long-playing record productions u. a.
Locations
The library network of the Erfurt City and Regional Library includes:
- the main library in the center of Erfurt directly on the cathedral square in the house "Zum Goldenen Einhorn"
- the Berliner Platz library in the north of Erfurt (Berliner Platz 1)
- the Drosselberg library in elementary school 25 "Astrid Lindgren" (Curiestraße 29)
- the library in the pot & sons memorial site
- the Johannesplatz library in the integrated comprehensive school (Wendenstraße 23)
- the library Krämpfervorstadt in regular school 1 (Hallesche Straße 18)
- the library Südpark in the sports high school Pierre-de-Coubertin (Mozartallee 4)
- the children's and youth library in the center of Erfurt between town hall and cathedral
- the mobile library with 50 stops in the Erfurt city area
- the Herrenberg district library in the south of the city (temporarily closed)
All libraries are open to the public. A valid library card from the Erfurt City and Regional Library entitles you to use all of the facilities in the library network.
special offers
Events such as readings, concerts, exhibitions, etc. are regularly held in all branches of the Erfurt City and Regional Library.
The conference room in the main library as well as the event room in the children's and youth library are used for internal and external educational and further training measures.
There is a dining area in the main library and in the children's and youth library.
The Erfurt library also offers PC and internet workstations, a magazine reading room, a student center, reading, rummaging and learning spaces, plus microfiche / film readers / printers, modern multifunctional devices for scanning, copying and printing or digital storage.
Every user also has free access to “ThueBIBnet”, the Thuringian library network, in which around 94,000 e-media (books, music, films, magazines and newspapers, learning programs) are currently available for download. In this context, there is also access to the entire Munzinger archive .
The Erfurt City and Regional Library is also connected to the national lending system, so that all users have access to all national and international titles held in German libraries via interlibrary loan.
Numbers and dates
The Erfurt city and regional library records around 1,500 events, over 500,000 visitors and almost a million loans every year.
The entire inventory of the Erfurt City and Regional Library includes:
- 114,285 non-fiction books
- 55,782 novels and short stories
- 53,705 children's books
- 283 magazine subscriptions
- 10,550 CDs
- 6,483 LPs
- 17,761 audio books
- 20,621 videos / DVDs
- 224 CD-ROMs
- 2,717 computer games
- 2,453 games
- 12,988 notes
- 94,134 e-media licenses
- approx. 136,000 old stock
(As of August 2020)
literature
- Kathrin Paasch: The library of Johann Christian von Boineburg (1622-1672). A contribution to the library history of polyhistorism , Logos, Berlin 2005. ISBN 3-8325-0328-5
Web links
- www.erfurt.de/bibliothek Official website
- ThuBIBnet
- On the history of the Erfurt city and regional library
Individual evidence
- ^ Holdings and offers , Erfurt City and Regional Library.
- ^ Chronicle , City and Regional Library.
- ↑ Historical inventory , city and regional library .
- ↑ Locations , Erfurt City and Regional Library.
- ↑ Annual reports , Erfurt City and Regional Library.
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 41 ″ N , 11 ° 1 ′ 28 ″ E