Bochum City Library
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 Bochum City Library, main entrance |
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The Bochum City Library is a library in Bochum . Your central library is located next to Bochum town hall in the education and administration center , which also houses the Bochum adult education center.
history
One of the first forerunners in 1833 was the bookshop called "Leseanstalt", owned by bookbinder W. Hemsoth, with 2000 books. In 1904 the city council decided to found a city library and to take over the holdings of the reading club.
Empire and Weimar Republic
The reading hall, as the facility was called against the backdrop of the reading hall movement , was opened on February 15, 1905 in a former school building at Humboldtstrasse 18, the actual lending library on August 18 of the same year, initially with 1,800 volumes. In 1911 the company moved to Schillerstrasse 4 (today's Diekampstrasse). Since the building had to give way to a new building, the library, which had grown to 40,000 volumes due to incorporation, was relocated to an old factory building on Südellweg 1a in 1924. It was not until 1931 that the library was able to move back into a representative, former administration building at Bismarckstrasse 14, with a stock of 70,000 books. Through the incorporation of various surrounding areas and the establishment of branches, the collection increased to 87,507 volumes by 1932. The bombing raid on November 4, 1944 destroyed the building and around half of its holdings - the full-time librarian and other employees also lost their lives.
After the Second World War
In 1947 the library was able to consolidate its holdings in three rooms of the town hall, and in 1949 lending operations were resumed. In 1951, regular operations can be resumed with the move into a new building at Albertstrasse 18. In 1970 the cataloging of cards was switched to IT, in 1971 the library had to move again to an emergency quarter at Kronenstrasse 47-63 - a former furniture store. It was not until 1980 that the company moved to the newly built education and administration center behind the town hall.
In addition to the district libraries , the city library also maintained several book buses based on Setra buses until 2003. The last one went into operation in 1980 and after its shutdown in May 2003 it was auctioned on the Internet. The book buses had numerous stops across the city, which were stopped at every week.
today
The library has branches in Gerthe , Langendreer , Linden , Querenburg , Wattenscheid and Wiemelhausen . Its annual budget is four million euros , of which 400,000 euros are available for acquisitions. It employs over 100 people.
Its inventory is over 410,000 media units ( books , sheet music , games , magazines , newspapers , digital media, cassettes and videos ). The city library recorded over two million loans in 2007, 40 percent of which were in non-fiction .
See also: Libraries in North Rhine-Westphalia
literature
- Hildegard Bergmann: Bochum City Library 1905–1980, a piece of library history. Studienverlag Brockmeyer Bochum, 1980, ISBN 3-88339-137-9
- City of Bochum (Ed.): Bochum City Library 1905–2005 , Bochum, 2005
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Opening of the reading room on February 15, 1905. In: Märkischer Sprecher , February 16, 1905, quoted from Bochum City Library 1905–2005.
- ↑ Bochum Topics 2003 with photo online (PDF; 2.0 MB)
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 59.5 ″ N , 7 ° 12 ′ 53 ″ E