Hückelhoven City Library

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Hückelhoven City Library

Duration approx. 28,000 media
Library type library
place Hückelhoven
ISIL DE-933
Website www.stadtbuecherei-hueckelhoven.de

The Hückelhoven city library offers around 28,000 titles in various media for all age groups on around 520 m² . The vast majority of these are books, newspapers, magazines and brochures. There is also music, films, radio plays, language courses, learning programs and board games. In addition, the city library has public internet workstations and the possibility of making photocopies.

Additional offers include events such as readings by authors, book presentations, theater performances or picture book cinemas for children and much more. Library tours for kindergarten groups, school classes of all age groups and other interested parties can be arranged by appointment. In addition, more extensive topic-specific media compilations, for example for project weeks, can be prepared.

Registration with a personal loaner card, as well as all borrowing in due time and internet use are free.

Via the Hückelhoven city library's web OPAC , users can search for media, renew and reserve them, and manage their user accounts.

history

In front of the city library there was the public library. This started work on April 1, 1957 in a corridor of the Realschule Ratheim: with volunteer staff and a proud offer of 322 books. Further spatial stations in and around Hückelhoven were various schools, a hall in a restaurant and a former town hall. In 1971 the local Sophia-Jacoba colliery closed its works library and donated the stock to the public library, which was able to incorporate a large part of it.

On October 6, 1987, the Hückelhoven city library opened its doors for the first time in the city's old town hall. This was preceded by the city council's decision to set up a professionally managed first-level library in Hückelhoven to cover basic needs and with approval for interlibrary loan. At this point in time, the book inventory comprised the approximately 7,500 volumes of the previously existing public library.

Finally, in 1992, the initially controversial decision was made to relocate the city library to the high school building and to unite it there with the teacher and student library. The reopening after the move took place on June 5, 1993, with a selection of almost 20,000 titles on approximately twice the presentation area.

Contrary to some fears and predictions, the concept of a library has proven to be successful, both for the general population and for the special needs of the students of the grammar school and all other schools on site: the numbers of visitors, new registrations, regular users and loans have been since Pass increased annually.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 16.6 ″  N , 6 ° 13 ′ 32 ″  E