Jülich City Library
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 Jülich City Library, loan |
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The Jülich City Library is located in the Kulturhaus am Hexenturm . As a central library , it has the task of supplying the city center and all municipalities belonging to the city of Jülich with information resources from the higher inventory beyond the basic inventory. Another main task of the city library is to promote reading .
Inventory and services
The city library has around 70,000 visitors annually. These can access an inventory of over 43,000 media units. In addition to 18,000 non-fiction books, 7,000 novels and 60 current magazines, the adult library also offers language courses, audio CDs, CD-ROMs, DVDs and Blu-rays. Workplaces enable use on site. Children and young people have about 10,000 books, CDs, CD-ROMs, DVDs, some Blu-rays, Wii, Playstation3 games and “games without electricity” at their disposal. OPAC and Internet workstations offer research options both in the inventory catalog and in national library catalogs . In 2007, 110 events were attended by 3420 participants. Since December 2008, the city library has offered all laptop owners free wireless Internet access ( hot spot ).
staff
The permanent staff consists of 3.8 positions spread over 7 people: 2.5 of them are library assistants and 1.3 are qualified librarians . All library employees are part-time.
history
The construction of the city library in Jülich began in 1927. The city library received its first building in July 1939 next to the youth hostel at the time. Most of the books were bombed on November 16, 1944. The library was reopened in 1945 with 450 volumes. The stock grew rapidly, and so the biggest problem in the following decades was the spatial accommodation, which required new moves again and again. A decisive change in the development of the city library brought about the technical management by a qualified librarian in 1971. From 1971 to 1975, media lending increased from 53,921 to 112,582.
The city library achieved a further increase in performance after 1979, when it was declared a central library by decree of the NRW Minister of Education and was included in the relevant funding plan. With the move to the Kulturhaus am Hexenturm in 1992, the city library was given its own space again for the first time after the Second World War. With an audience area of 700 m², the previously permanent space constraint could be alleviated and the planned concept of a cultural meeting point in the city center could be tackled.
The Förderverein Stadtbücherei Jülich eV was founded in 1983 , which has been supporting the interests of the Stadtbücherei Jülich with ideas, personnel and finances since then.
As early as 1996, the library was one of the first German libraries to be represented on the Internet. At the end of 2004 this was integrated into the website of the city of Jülich. The city library has had its own website with an integrated online catalog since August 2013.
Web links
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 15.4 " N , 6 ° 21 ′ 21.3" E