City libraries Düsseldorf

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City libraries Düsseldorf
Central Library Duesseldorf (V-001) .jpg
In the central library in Düsseldorf, 2017

founding 1886
Duration 800,000
Library type library
place Dusseldorf
ISIL DE-362
Website www.duesseldorf.de/stadtbuechereien

The Düsseldorf city libraries are a public library operated by the city of Düsseldorf and see themselves as a service center in the information sector. Various information media for private and professional use are made available to the general public for inspection and lending. In the central library in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk and at 14 locations in different parts of the city , a total of around 800,000 media are held. An online library is also operated.

history

On April 28, 1885, the city council decided to found a public library. The first book could be borrowed on February 3, 1886 at Eisenstrasse. The inventory amounted to 862 volumes. In 1889, a branch of the municipal public library was founded with the library in Bilk . Further branches followed in Oberbilk (1896), Flingern (1907), Derendorf (1911), Gerresheim (1913), Eller (1923), Rath (1924) and Wersten (1936). Libraries in Oberkassel (1920) and Kaiserswerth (1929) were incorporated through incorporation . During the Second World War, particularly in 1943, six of the eleven libraries were destroyed. The branch in Oberkassel was able to resume operations as early as 1947. Bilk, Derendorf, Flingern and Wersten were not reopened until 1967 to 1976. In 1954, the library in Unterrath was the first new branch opened after the war. In 1954 the Stadtmitte library was opened on Berliner Allee , the forerunner of today's central library. The branch in Hassels followed in 1973 . In 1975 the library of the newly incorporated district of Unterbach was incorporated into the Düsseldorf city libraries . In the same year, another branch was opened in Garath as part of the construction of a district center. A mobile library had existed since 1971 and was closed by a council decision at the end of 2015.

As part of the urban renewal in Oberbilk, the new central library was built in 1986 on the site of a former steelworks between Eisenstrasse and the main train station . With this, the Düsseldorf city libraries returned to their place of origin after 100 years. In 2011 for the first time more than five million loans were made in one year.

Since 2017, the central library has been concentrating increasingly on the use of new media. As part of the so-called “LibraryLab”, workshops and various lectures on the topic were offered for one week in October 2017.

Media and Lending

Central Library

In 2008, the central library contained a total of 465,958 media, including books, CDs, DVDs, games, digital media and sheet music. Around 2.4 million loans took place, of which 50.3% material media, 15.3% fiction, 14.2% children's media, 14% music media and 6.2% feature films. Law, mathematics, computer science and languages ​​dominated the material media.

Music library

Attached to the central library is the music library, which covers a broad spectrum from classical to pop. 15,000 CDs as well as 300 DVDs and 2,000 videos are available. There are also around 35,000 sheet music and 16,000 books on the subject of music as well as relevant specialist journals. The approximately 8,000 records and CDs can be listened to on site at playback stations.

  • Central Library

  • entrance

  • Entrance hall

  • Automated returns

  • Library, 1st floor

General catalog of the Düsseldorf cultural institutes (GDK)

The general catalog is the union catalog of 14 Düsseldorf cultural institute libraries in municipal and non-municipal sponsorship. It provides formal and factual evidence of the special library holdings of the participating institutes. It is professionally supported and published by the Düsseldorf City Libraries.

District libraries

In 2008, the 14 district libraries had a total of 364,027 media. The users made around 2.3 million loans. In contrast to the central library, the entertainment media predominated in the districts. Material media made up only 24.2% of the loans here. Children's media in particular were loaned out most frequently at 43.9%. The library in Benrath has the highest media inventory with almost 35,000, the lowest with around 17,000. The branch in Hassels is a special case with around 4400 media, as it only has children as its target group.

Online library

The online library has around 16,000 media, including magazines, daily newspapers, MP3 files, videos, etc., which registered users of the Düsseldorf city libraries can download.

future

A former Postbank building on Konrad-Adenauer-Platz is to become the new home of the city library headquarters. It has been under construction since 2018 and is due to move into in 2021.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Viewpoints of the Düsseldorf City Libraries.
  2. ↑ Website of the state capital Düsseldorf: 2011 new lending record at the city libraries . Retrieved January 10, 2012
  3. ↑ Dusseldorf LibraryLab: What will happen to social media accounts for his own death? In: report-d.de. www.report-d.de, accessed on October 20, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Laura Ihme: Starting signal for a new library in Düsseldorf. , rp-online.de, December 27, 2017, accessed on August 15, 2019