Bonn City Library
| Bonn City Library | |
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 Interior view of the House of Education
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| founding | February 8, 1943 |
| Duration | 332,000 |
| Library type | Public library |
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Bonn 
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| ISIL | DE-369 |
| management | Helga Albrecht |
| Website | http://www.bonn.de/stadtbibliothek |
The Bonn City Library is a metropolitan library system with a head office in the House of Education and eight branches. Its main tasks include providing information through the media for education and entertainment. The staff provide information of a general nature and on the use of the library. Furthermore, the city library would like to convey reading and media skills (e.g. through introductions to the digital library ) and promote reading (e.g. through the summer reading club ). In addition, it sees itself as a lounge and communication space without any compulsion to consume, in which lifelong learning takes place.
history
The origins of the city library lie in the Bonn book and reading hall founded in 1897. The first city library was founded on February 8, 1943 with 9,000 volumes and was then based in the Old Town Hall. When the city of Bonn grew in 1969 through the incorporation of Beuel and Bad Godesberg , the first branches were opened. On January 1, 1997, the library was renamed the City Library in order to illustrate its growing demand for basic cultural services.
After the central library left its former location in October 2011 and was temporarily operated in the Cassius Bastei and Dottendorf, it was able to reopen in September 2015 in the newly built House of Education at the old location. She shares the premises with the adult education center, the Literaturhaus Bonn eV and the Café Liebeslesen. In the spring of 2016, the youth library in the central library, funded with state funds, was able to open. Helga Albrecht has been the head of the city library since September 1, 2016.
organization
The city libraries are distributed across Bonn as follows:
- Central library in the House of Education with around 148,500 media units
- Music library in Endeich with around 52,600 media units
- District library Bad Godesberg with around 37,600 media units
- Beuel district library with around 21,800 media units
- Brüser Berg district library with around 19,100 media units
- Tannenbusch district library with around 18,000 media units
- Integrated Auerberg district library with around 10,000 media units
- Endingich district library with around 12,000 media units
- Dottendorf district library with around 12,600 media units
The facilities of the city library, with the exception of the music library, have self- checkout machines that work with RFID technology.
Inventory and services
Media offer
Use of the library is free of charge for children and young people. Adults who want to borrow media can choose between a three-month or annual fee.
In addition to print media such as books, magazines and newspapers, the library offers CDs, CD-ROMs, DVDs, Blu-rays and audio books. It also has console and board games, sheet music and e-media. Via the OPAC , customers can see which media they have borrowed up to which date and can extend them if necessary. In the OPAC you will receive information as to whether a desired medium is available in a facility of the city library. In the e-library, customers can borrow e-books , e-videos, e-audios (audio books) or e-papers (magazines and newspapers) at any time of the day and then download them. This offer is included in the usage fee for customers with a valid library card and password. In addition, the library offers the opportunity to test or borrow e-readers.
The Bonn City Library has licensed the following databases: the lexicon search engines Duden , Brockhaus and Munziger as well as the digital library ( DigiBib ). In the latter, various library catalogs can be searched at the same time and various full-text and specialist databases can be used. The newspaper and magazine database “GENIOS eBib” has been added. The digital information portal offers online access to more than 1,000 newspapers and magazines, which can be searched specifically for areas of interest and topics.
Services and events
Customers can have media from all library locations in the city delivered to the library they use. The library system with 332,000 media is available to them from their local branch. If none of the libraries in Bonn has the medium you are looking for , it can be ordered as an interlibrary loan from another library in Germany. In contrast to internal interlibrary loan, there is a fee for interlibrary loan. Alternatively, the customer can use a form to submit a purchase proposal to the Bonn City Library so that, ideally, it can purchase the medium itself.
Via the item “Other offers” in the OPAC, customers can view lists of new acquisitions that contain the media that have been added to the inventory in the past few weeks. It is possible to browse through current titles, which are divided into different groups such as material media or feature films. There are also lists of new acquisitions for each branch. Customers have the option of having any kind of borrowed medium reserved for themselves. You will find this on a separate shelf for reservations and orders as soon as it has been returned by the previous borrower. Orders and reservations (internal loan exchange) can be made by telephone, via the OPAC or during a personal visit to the library. To provide orientation, the city library gives introductions to the OPAC and the e-library. In most facilities of the Bonn City Library, visitors have access to free WiFi. Guided tours for schools and kindergartens take place in all branches to familiarize children and young people with the library. There are also guided tours for people with a non-German mother tongue.
The library offers a program of events, including picture book cinemas , multilingual readings, and artisanal and creative activities that are not only aimed at children. The summer reading club is held here regularly, which aims to promote the reading and writing skills of students and offers incentives with certificates and prizes. In addition, the regional decision of the reading competition of the German book trade takes place every year in the city library. The two-week Rhenish reading festival “Käpt'n Book” for children and young people stands out in particular, as part of which authors like Paul Maar have been visiting libraries since 2002 . Around 500 events on Käpt'n Book take place in 25 municipalities from the southern Rhineland and the Bergisches Land. In addition, the city library regularly hosts changing exhibitions such as B. “The United Nations in Germany under the banner of the 2030 Agenda” in autumn 2017.
Special services
When returning media, customers are no longer bound by the library's opening times, but can hand them in at the external return department of the central library at any time.
To make language acquisition easier, the library has intensified its offerings for people with a migration background. It now offers z. B. foreign-language and multilingual media for adults and children, including daily newspapers, in languages such as Spanish, Arabic or Turkish. Learning materials for German as a foreign language can also be found in the inventory. There are special library tours for people with limited knowledge of German.
A new type of mobile library was introduced in summer 2016. "The Red Lightning" is a cargo bike that is loaded with media for smaller children and can be used to drive to facilities such as kindergartens. The Bonn Community Foundation and the Friends' Association of the Bonn City Library were involved in the financing. To support teaching in schools or informal learning in kindergartens, the city library offers the facilities media boxes on various topics such as: B. Integration or according to individual needs. In the central library there is also a learning center, where learning and high school graduation aids are arranged according to subject and can be borrowed or studied at the workstations there. Schoolchildren also have the option of individual research training for upcoming specialist work.
Another offer of the city library started in March 2019 with the platform "BonnerBibliotheken". This is based on a joint search in the holdings of the Bonn libraries involved. In addition to the city libraries and two university libraries, museum, special and research libraries are presented here, some of which make their highly specialized holdings available to the public.
Library in numbers
In 2019, the public library system had 332,000 items, of which 149,000 were in the central library. The city library with a total of around 60 employees spent around € 425,000 on media acquisition over the twelve months. In the same year there were almost 1.5 million loans, with around half of the borrowed media coming from headquarters. 141,000 media were loaned out via the e-library. Almost 100,000 items were sent as an internal loan order from one district library to another because they were ordered there by one of the approximately 25,000 card holders. The Bonn City Library recorded 607,500 visitors in 2019.
Cooperations
The Bonn City Library cooperates in the House of Education with the local adult education center and the literature house. It is also supported by the Bonn City Library Association, for example at events or its public relations work. Lending operations in the Endeich and Dottendorf district libraries are carried out with volunteers from the Friends' Association of the City Library Endenich eV and KultimO. When filling the integrated district library Auerberg, the MLG live and shape gGmbH and the support association Rheindorf / Auerberg eV work together. Other cooperation partners include the cooperation groups Church Public Libraries in Bonn and the Schumannhaus Bonn eV association, which is dedicated to the music library. In addition, the respective branches work together with the surrounding schools and kindergartens.
Web links
- City library website
- OPAC: www.lib.bonn.de
- e-library: www.onleihe.de/bonn
- City library on Facebook: www.facebook.com/stadtbibliothek.bonn
- City library on Instagram: www.instagram.com/stadtbibliothek.bonn
Individual evidence
- ↑ Günter Röttcher: A house is recommended . In: Stadtbücherei Bonn (Hrsg.): A house is recommended. Festschrift for the opening of the central library of the Bonn City Library in the old town house on Bottlerplatz . Bonn 1980, p. 7-9 .
- ^ Bonn City Library: Online. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
- ↑ City Library Bonn: eLibrary. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
- ^ Bonn City Library: Interlibrary loan. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
- ^ City of Bonn: Proposal for acquisition. Retrieved February 20, 2019 .
- ^ Bonn City Library: Catalog. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
- ^ Bonn City Library: Guided tours. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Bonn City Library: Dates and current issues. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
- ^ City of Bonn: The United Nations in Germany. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
- ^ Bonn City Library: Reading Promotion. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Bonn City Library: Stress at school? We have something against it! Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
- ↑ City Library Bonn platform "Bonner Libraries". Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
- ^ German library statistics : Variable analysis. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
- ^ Bonn City Library: Annual Report 2016 (PDF) Retrieved on November 28, 2017 .
- ^ Bonn City Library: Annual Report 2017 (PDF) Retrieved on July 12, 2018 .