Gütersloh City Library

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City Library Gütersloh GmbH
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City Library Gütersloh GmbH

founding 1984
Duration 115,000 media
Library type library
place Gütersloh coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 15 ″  N , 8 ° 22 ′ 37 ″  EWorld icon
ISIL DE-371
operator City of Gütersloh
Bertelsmann Foundation
management Silke Niermann
Website www.stadtbibliothek-guetersloh.de
Main entrance
Main hall

The Stadtbibliothek Gütersloh GmbH is a public library in the East Westphalian city of Gütersloh and serves as the city's information, culture and education center. The library's tasks include providing qualified support for the acquisition of information, providing needs-based media offers for the educational and leisure needs of all residents and covering their information needs in the areas of culture, education and training, leisure activities and coping with everyday life. Another main task of the city library is to promote reading .

The Stadtbibliothek GmbH is owned by the city of Gütersloh and the Bertelsmann Foundation , which, under the leadership of Reinhard Mohn , has funded the construction of the city library with considerable funds.

Inventory and services

The city library makes a wide variety of media available for loan for educational, cultural and leisure purposes. Internet places, a digital work room, etc. v. m. complete the offer, as do events for more than 115,000 media. The Gütersloh City Library has a public area of ​​more than 4,000 square meters. In 2014, 211,500 visits and 643,000 loans were counted.

Events

The library offers a program of events for children and senior citizens. Events on digital topics take place in the Q-thek. The common consoles can also be tried out in the children's library.

Every year the city library and the school libraries of the city invite students to the Summer Reading Club (SLC). At the beginning of the summer holidays you will receive a reading log in which the books you have read are entered. If three books or more have been read, the pupils receive confirmation of participation by issuing a certificate, which is usually awarded at a final event to which all participants are invited. Participation in the SLC can be noted as an extracurricular performance on the next school report.

In addition to the summer reading club, there is the reading spring, a series of events for children aged 4 to 12 years, which is carried out in cooperation with the Bielefeld City Library .

“Step by Step - Letter Fit” is a project with offers for different grade levels. The aim of the individual events is to get to know the library and its offers better. Routines such as loan, return and research are practiced. One medium is in the foreground at every appointment. In a playful way, children learn to enjoy reading and reading is encouraged. There are also guided tours for adults and children in day care centers.

literature

  • Wolfgang A. Benker: Gütersloh City Library . Bertelsmann Foundation, Gütersloh 1994, ISBN 3-89204-144-X .
  • Gloria Reyes-Morawski: The City Library Gütersloh GmbH. Cooperation attempt between media company and municipality . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-447-02370-8 .

Web links

Commons : Gütersloh City Library  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personal details . In: Handelsblatt . January 24, 1986, p. 18 .
  2. ↑ Gunhild Freese: Lord in the social home . In: The time . June 28, 1996.
  3. ↑ First internet café opened in the library . In: Saxon newspaper . December 6, 1996, p. 32 .
  4. ↑ A place of communication . In: New Westphalian . Gütersloher newspaper. February 20, 2020, p. 20 .