City library Frankfurt am Main

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City library Frankfurt am Main
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Central library with the music library of the Frankfurt am Main city library, in July 2015

founding 1845
Library type Communal library
place Frankfurt am Main coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 46.5 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 3.7 ″  EWorld icon
ISIL DE-277 (city library, central library)
operator town Frankfurt am Main
management Sabine Homilius
Website stadtbuecherei.frankfurt.de

The Frankfurt am Main City Library is a municipal library owned by the City of Frankfurt am Main .

description

The Frankfurt City Library has 18 public libraries, a mobile library with over 30 stops and 113 (as of January 1, 2019) school libraries in the city area. It is one of the most popular public institutions in the city and receives around 1.5 million visits a year.

Use of the libraries is free of charge. The city library charges adults an annual fee for lending media. The media inventory includes fiction and non-fiction , children's and youth literature, media in other languages, films, audio books , e-media and e-learning courses, music (pop, classical, jazz) and sheet music, newspapers and magazines, travel guides and maps, Language courses and databases. Internet and PC workstations are available to users in all libraries.

In 2018, the Frankfurt City Library was named Library of the Year for the work of the school librarianship.

Libraries

The Frankfurt City Library includes the central library with music library, the central children's and youth library, four library centers in Bergen-Enkheim, Höchst, Nordweststadt and Sachsenhausen, 12 district libraries in Bockenheim, Bornheim, the Dornbusch, in Gallus, in Nieder-Eschbach, Niederrad, in Rödelheim, Schwanheim, Seckbach, Sindlingen and Sossenheim, the mobile library with two book buses and over 30 stops as well as 113 school libraries in the network of the school librarianship.

Focus

One target group are children and young people who are promoted through events on reading and media skills . In addition to reading campaigns, the city library organizes WissensWerkstätten, the youth project JungeMedienJury and participates in the German Children's Software Prize Tommi. Important partners in promoting reading include a. the foundation of the Frankfurter Sparkasse 1822, the foundation Polytechnische Gesellschaft , the Frankfurt Lions Clubs, the association Bildungspate eV, the Frankfurt culture committee and the Hessian reading promotion .

A Frankfurt specialty is the school librarianship (sba), which looks after 113 school libraries (as of 2019). The sba was founded in 1974 and advocates high-quality school libraries with good media equipment and adequate opening times. The sba service includes media logistics for its network libraries, the construction and conception of school libraries, as well as reading promotion activities for all Frankfurt schools, campaigns to promote media literacy and the training of volunteers.

The city library has been involved in intercultural library work since the 1970s. In addition to media in other languages, there are also special services for migrants. In 2002 the “International Library” was set up in the Gallus district library, followed in 2003 by the Höchst Library Center, and in 2010 by the Sindlingen district library. The focus of the International Library is on learning German - teaching German and literacy. One of the partners is the adult education center. From 2005 to 2006, she participated in the EU project “Libraries as Gateways to the Integration of Immigrants”; from 2008 to 2010 on the EU project "Libraries for All / European Strategy for Multicultural Education (ESME)". This resulted in offers for families such as For example: a multilingual collection of parenting guides, special library introductions for parents, parent information talks about media use in everyday life, intercultural reading campaigns and much more

In the libraries, visitors will find media, study spaces, work rooms and free internet. Since 2012 the central library has also offered two workstations for the blind.

All libraries hold readings, discussions, lectures and exhibitions. In its event work, the city library works closely with Frankfurt institutions such as the Book Fair and the Jewish Community, international cultural associations and initiatives from the city districts.

A total of 450 volunteers are involved in the public libraries and school libraries. For the libraries in Bergen-Enkheim, Gallus, Griesheim, Niederrad, Rödelheim, Sachsenhausen, Schwanheim, Sindlingen, Sossenheim and the Central Children's and Young People's Library, special associations have been set up to support the event work. The Bockenheim library of the city library is a special feature and is developed in cooperation with the Fördervereinlese -zeichen e. V. operated.

history

Seal of the City Library Frankfurt am Main

The Frankfurt am Main city library has its origins in the Society for the Dissemination of Useful Folk and Youth Pamphlets, founded by 12 Frankfurt citizens in 1845 (aim: the moral refinement of the people) and the Free Library and Reading Hall Association founded in 1894 (aim: to promote popular education and enlightenment , Waiver of any kind of paternalism).

The first reading halls are set up in the city center, in Bornheim, Bockenheim, Oberrad and Gallus. In 1904 the music library was built and in 1909 the first children's reading hall was opened. In 1924 the two library movements were merged to form the municipal public library. In 1929 the mobile library (then the car library) was put into operation. In 1934, lending to young people aged 12 and over was introduced. During the time of National Socialism, around 8,000 "forbidden and undesirable books" were removed from the inventory under the direction of Johannes Beer . A bomb attack destroyed the main library in 1945.

In 1969, the city renamed the public library in Frankfurt am Main city library. Since the 1970s, the city library has responded to the increased influx of foreign workers and has placed a focus on intercultural library work. In 2002, the international library in Gallus was opened in this context. In 1974, Frankfurt was the first German city to set up a school librarianship; in 1980 the school library network comprised 30 institutions, and in 2013 the sba looked after 94 school libraries. Since 1989, trained library pedagogues have been supporting the conception and organization of the reading promotion offers of the city library.

In 2003, new library software was introduced which enables the research of the holdings on the Internet and replaced the card catalog. In the same year, the city council decided to close four libraries in Bockenheim (reopened as Bockenheim library), Bergen (reopened as Bergen-Enkheim library center), Riederwald, Oberrad. The libraries in Bergen-Enkheim, Höchst, Nordweststadt and Sachsenhausen are being rededicated as library centers. In 2004 Sabine Homilius took over the management of the city library.

In 2007, the central library with the music library, the school librarianship, the management level and the administration moved to Hasengasse 4. In 2008 the Nieder-Eschbach district library and the school library in the Otto Hahn School reopened after a lengthy renovation. In 2009 the Sachsenhausen library center moved into a new domicile in the restored tram depot at Südbahnhof, the Höchst library center and the school library in the Friedrich-Dessauer-Gymnasium were reopened in the converted Höchst educational and cultural center. The city library has also been offering electronic media since 2009. In 2010, the Isla TeenLounge was built in the central children's and youth library in cooperation with the Offenbach University of Design. In 2012, the central library received two workplaces for the blind in cooperation with the Frankfurt Foundation for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the City of Frankfurt Commissioner for People with Disabilities.

Prices

  • 2004 - USable idea prize for the establishment of an "International Library"
  • 2005 - Hessian reading promotion award for the concept of the "reading spiral"
  • 2011 - Citizens' Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main for six volunteer school library teams
  • 2012 - Citizens' Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main for the scouts of the youth project "BücherPicknik"
  • 2012 - Hessian reader advancement award for library work for and with young people
  • 2018 - Library of the year for the activity of the school librarianship

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