Velbert City Library
The Velbert City Library , founded in 1905, is a public library in Velbert . It provides over 190,000 visitors with information every year. This makes it one of the most popular public facilities in Velbert. The central library Velbert Mitte has been in the pedestrian zone, Friedrichstrasse 115–117, for a transitional period since January 2020. There are branches in the districts of Neviges and Langenberg.
The city library ensures the media supply of Velbert citizens for education and training, information and leisure activities. In addition to the leading medium of the book, the current media offer also particularly takes new media and the Internet into account . More than 111,000 media on factual topics ( non-fiction , specialist literature ), children's literature and novels in the form of books, CD-ROMs / DVDs, audio books, magazines as well as music CDs and board games are available to anyone interested.
Since September 2008, the Velbert City Library, together with eight other libraries from the Mettmann district , has been offering digital media for loan. E-books , e-videos , e-audios, e-magazines, e-papers and e-music can be borrowed and downloaded free of charge for customers of the participating libraries via the joint "BibNet" union catalog . More than 18,000 licenses are currently available for download online.
An important task of the Velbert City Library is to promote reading for children. In addition, the advanced training of pupils in the field of media skills is an important part of daily work. The Velbert City Library offers library members numerous computer workstations, all with Internet and Office applications, for members to use freely.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 28 ″ N , 7 ° 2 ′ 48 ″ E