Heidelberg City Library
| Heidelberg City Library | |
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 Heidelberg City Library (2010)
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| founding | 1906 |
| Duration | approx. 220,000 |
| Library type | Communal library |
| place | Heidelberg |
| ISIL | DE-754 |
| Website | stadtbuecherei-heidelberg.bib-bw.de |
The Heidelberg City Library is the library of the city of Heidelberg . It has around 220,000 items that were loaned out more than 1.1 million times by 577,000 visitors in 2010. In the performance measurement by the library index, the city library took first place in the “city library” category several times.
The history of the library goes back to the year 1904. At that time, a still unknown person gave Mayor Karl Wilckens securities with the condition that a public reading hall and public library be set up. The library was opened in 1906. The districts of Heidelberg are supplied with a book bus . Heidelberg is also involved in the Metropol Card. This allows the use of the libraries of twelve cities and municipalities in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region with more than 1.3 million media.
The Heidelberg City Library sees itself as a place of literature and culture . Eugène Ionesco , Günter Grass , José Saramago and Astrid Lindgren have already visited the library .
Honors
The Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ, awarded a small, annually newly created work of art, the translator's bar, to the editor of the city library, Beate Frauenschuh. She is responsible for the exhibition and event program and has for many years relied on the competence of literary translators as the knowledgeable mediators of world literature in the German-speaking area.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 24.7 " N , 8 ° 41 ′ 11.7" E