Heilbronn City Library
| Heilbronn City Library | |
|---|---|
| Library type | Public library |
| Catalog | https://sb-heilbronn.lmscloud.net |
| Website | https://stadtbibliothek.heilbronn.de |
| ISIL | DE-833 |
The Heilbronn City Library was founded in 1903 and, with a stock of around 210,000 media and an area of 3,100 m², is one of the largest municipal libraries in Baden-Württemberg . The main office can be found in K3 with an entrance on the ground floor. The city library also includes the two branches in Heilbronn-Böckingen and Heilbronn-Biberach as well as the mobile library "robi"
Media offer
The range of media in the Heilbronn City Library includes books, newspapers, magazines, sheet music, music CDs, records, audio books and films for adults, children and young people. Board games, PC and console games are also offered. Electronic devices such as e-readers, dementia tablets and daisy players can also be borrowed. E-books, e-audios, e-videos and e-magazines as well as e-learning courses are also available. Library customers also have access to the online services of the Brockhaus and the Encyclopædia Britannica as well as the Munzinger information service . Daily newspapers and magazines from 100 countries can be read online with PressReader. Music titles and films can be used from home via the media streaming services Freegal and Filmfriend . In classic book lending, interlibrary loan orders are also carried out from academic libraries.
service
Visitors can register at the information desk on the ground floor. At the information desk on the 1st floor, visitors can get all information about the inventory or the digital offers on site and on the Internet. In the house, public PCs, copiers, WiFi and a play room can be used by all members of the library. Daily newspapers can be read on site. There are numerous tables and sockets available for all guests. The brochure service and a newsletter provide information on facilities and regional offers. In order to give all citizens easy access, the main office in K3 is handicapped accessible.
Events
The Heilbronn City Library regularly offers a wide variety of events for all age groups. During the summer holidays there is a “reading summer” for pupils between the 5th and 8th grade who like to read, at the end of which there is a final party with entertainment and a raffle. There are numerous event formats for adults, some of which take place with cooperation partners such as theater or VHS. For example, in 2016 Gregor Gysi was a guest in the event series “Author in conversation” in the “Boxx” of the theater.
Reading promotion
The city library works with many facilities for children in Heilbronn, including daycare centers, elementary schools, secondary schools and other facilities such as the Böckingen youth and family center. The aim of the cooperation work is to playfully promote the reading skills and concentration skills of the children.
Under the motto "Lix the lynx is looking at!", Toddlers receive language training in the "Bucherminis" series of events, where they sing, play and have fun with parents under the guidance of a reading teacher. For children in kindergarten, attentive listening is encouraged with "Lix der Lux Hör zu!" The children can listen to an exciting story in a picture book cinema. At elementary school age, children are playfully motivated to read their first books with “Lix the lynx learns to read!”. In addition, once a month the mobile library “Robi” goes to all primary schools to provide the children with reading material. In the 5th grade, the central library in K3 is brought closer with "LixClub We want to know!"
Branches
The city library has three branches. In Biberach it is in the old school building, in Böckingen the branch is housed in the cultural center “Bürgerhaus” and the mobile library “Robi” goes to all primary schools as well as many outskirts of Heilbronn.
Support association
The association "Reading - Hearing - Knowledge" - Friends of the Heilbronn City Library supports and promotes the city library through various measures, such as B. the acquisition of donations and sponsorship money or through public relations for the library. The Friends' Association also initiates reading promotion projects or supports literary events. Members of the association have reduced admission to all events of the city library. When you join the association you get one year of library use for free.
history
Beginning in the Kirchhöfle
The establishment of the Heilbronn City Library goes back to private foundations. Initially, the Staatsrat von Goppel'sche Foundation for educational purposes consisted of assets from the estate of Adolf von Goppel (1800–1875), at whose suggestion a municipal commission for the establishment of a public library was formed in 1893. After the death of the municipal councilor Gustav Braun in 1900, further foundation assets were added from his legacy to establish and maintain a municipal public library. In 1901 , a suitable building was found in Kirchhöfle 1 with the former Catholic girls' boarding school, formerly also the seat of the secondary school , which could serve as a library with a reading room after renovation. The construction plans were presented in the autumn of 1902, after which the renovation of the building began. A book magazine was set up on the first floor, the reading room and offices were on the second floor. At the same time, the purchase of literature began according to a list of about 4000 titles compiled by the librarian Marie Friz.
On May 28, 1903, the municipal public library with reading room was opened in Kirchhöfle 1. At the opening, the library had a stock of 2,387 volumes, which by April 1904 had grown to over 4,000 volumes. At the end of the 1910/11 operating year there were around 11,200 volumes.
A major reorganization of the buildings and the counter library took place in 1924/25. At that time, a further 5,000 volumes and 1,000 books for young people were purchased from a donation from the Talheim teacher and founder of the Heilbronn adult education center, Christian Leichtle (1892–1949).
During the National Socialist era , the library was incorporated into the Heilbronn City Archives . At the same time, the former local libraries in Böckingen and Neckargartach became branches of the library after these places were incorporated. According to an instruction from the Reich Library , books by forbidden authors were removed from the inventory. In 1939 another branch was opened in Sontheim . The Heilbronn library building with a holdings of 16,000 volumes was destroyed on December 4, 1944 during the air raid on Heilbronn , and the three branches did not survive the Second World War either.
Changing locations in the post-war period
From 1946 onwards, Christian Leichtle was mainly involved in rebuilding the library. On March 25, 1947, the shooting house, previously used by Heilbronner Voice , was reopened with holdings from the former branch offices and the support of the Americans. The initial inventory was 1900 books. At first, only English-language books could be borrowed, as there was still a lack of German books in the first post-war inventory.
In the summer of 1948, a separate library was opened in the Amerika-Haus (former Villa Lichdi, corner of Lerchenstrasse and Alexanderstrasse) and the English-language book inventory was outsourced. In 1951 the American Library had around 8,300 books, around two thirds of them in English.
The library holdings in the shooting house were meanwhile increased to around 3,100 books by the end of 1948. From June 1949 book lending was reintroduced: For a loan fee of 10 pfennigs (young people up to 18 years of age, small pensioners and the unemployed 5 pfennigs) books could be taken home. Three years later the new youth library opened in the shooting house. In 1953 the city library moved to the building of the old city theater , where it initially had a stock of 11,000 books. The Amerika-Haus was closed in the same year and the stock of books there, which had now grown to 13,000 volumes, was reintegrated into the city library. Due to a lack of space, the books in the American Library were temporarily housed in the Heilbronn town hall , where they were already available in the open access system, while the counter library was still operated in the Old City Theater with the rest of the inventory.
In 1957 the decision was made to move to the Deutschhof , so that the revision of the entire inventory for open access lending began. In 1959 the library had around 30,000 volumes.
Move to the Deutschhof in 1961
In 1961 the city library moved to the rebuilt Deutschhof . The library was opened there on September 29, 1961 with a stock of 37,000 media, including for the first time its own music department with sheet music and records. The books were now all available in the Deutschhof in an open-access system. In 1962, the lending fees were abolished, and the mobile library went into operation three years later .
The Heilbronn city library was of national importance in the 1960s. In 1964 the facility was visited by a delegation of Canadian library directors, and in 1966 by the library director from Novosibirsk. Library director Hans Ulrich Eberle (1927–1988), who succeeded Berta Danner in 1960, was elected chairman of the Baden-Württemberg regional group of the Association of German People's Librarians in 1968 and then carried out numerous conferences and meetings in Heilbronn. Eberle represented a strictly democratic orientation that was based solely on the taste of the public and largely evaded the influence of educated bourgeois resentment. He has also transformed the library into a diverse cultural center with readings, book and art exhibitions and other events.
From 1972 to 1975 the library was expanded through the opening of branches in the Kleist Realschule in Böckingen (1972) with an initial inventory of 5000 books, the Biberach branch in the old school building (1974), which had emerged from the former Biberach community library, and the branch in the Bürgerhaus Böckingen (1975) enlarged, in 1975 music cassettes and audio books could also be borrowed for the first time.
In 1976 the registration fee was waived. Library use became free of charge.
In January 1981 the city library put a new book bus manufactured by Kässbohrer in Ulm into operation, which when it was handed over was described as the most modern book bus in Europe .
In May 2011, a new mobile library was put into operation under the name robi , which was custom-built by a Frankfurt coachbuilder on a truck body. Then the interior of the approximately 10-meter-long vehicle with shelves for around 4,000 media, reading corner, counter and workstations took place in Chemnitz.
1993 came the end of the catalog boxes: The catalogs and the booking were converted to EDP. From 1995 users had to pay an annual loan fee of 20 DM for adults. In 1998 the EDP was completely renewed. In the same year, the municipal council decided to move the city library to the Theaterforum K3 on Berliner Platz. During the planning phase, the Kleist Sembdner archive acquired by the city of Heilbronn in 1990 was spun off from the city library.
City library in the Theaterforum K3 since 2001
In May 2001 the Heilbronn city library moved to the Theaterforum K3 on Berliner Platz. The loan of cards, DVDs and CD-ROMs was newly introduced. A year later, the million mark was exceeded for the first time in the annual loan. With the founding of the support association Reading - Hearing - Knowledge - Friends of the Heilbronn City Library eV , a support group for the library was set up in 2003. The Bibnetz research portal was set up in 2007, and a year later self- booking with RFID in the main office in K3. The Heilbronn-Franken online library has also been available since 2009 . In 2011 the annual fee was increased from 14 to 16 euros and a new book bus was purchased.
Important key figures
In 2018 the Heilbronn City Library recorded 562,188 visitors, of which 19,845 were active borrowers. 973,833 media were loaned. The media inventory was 207,031 items. 4,747 events and guided tours were held with 52,928 visitors. 25 permanent positions were set up for library operations.
Individual evidence
- ^ City of Heilbronn, Administrative Report 1979–1982, p. 57.
literature
- "There is silence in the reading room". From the public library with reading hall to the city library. 100 years of Heilbronn City Library. Heilbronn City Library, Heilbronn 2003 ( here as PDF file; 1.8 MB)