Cologne City Library
| Cologne City Library | |
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.jpg) Central library Cologne at Josef-Haubrich-Hof (Neumarkt)
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| founding | 1890 |
| Duration | approx. 850,000 media |
| Library type | library |
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Cologne 
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| ISIL | DE-380 |
| Website | www.stbib-koeln.de |
The Cologne City Library is one of the largest and most important public libraries in Germany.
It has around 87,000 members and is used around seven million times a year. It is managed by Hannelore Vogt, who has a doctorate in cultural management . In 2011 the city library generated income, e.g. B. from donations and user fees in the amount of 1,919,854 euros, which were offset by expenses of 13,416,184 euros.
The head office of the library system has been located in the Kulturquartier in the immediate vicinity of Neumarkt since 1979 . The entrance to the central library is at Josef-Haubrich-Hof, the building also borders on Fleischmenger- and Bayardsgasse and is in the immediate vicinity of the new buildings of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum and the Schnütgen Museum as well as the study house of the adult education center .
Library system
In addition to the departments located in the central library, the system of the Cologne City Library includes eleven branches, a library bus and several special facilities. It is a public institution of the city of Cologne . Within the city administration , the city library is assigned to Department VII (Art and Culture). It provides around one million Cologne residents with “education, training and information”, plus a large number of users from the region and neighboring countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg).
Central Library
In the central library, established in 1979, all forms of printed matter as well as sheet music and cards can be borrowed, as well as: CDs, CD-ROMs, DVDs (also interactive), Blu-rays. The range also includes audio books, games, language courses, software, media combinations and e-books . All floors are equipped with PCs for internet, catalog and database use. W-LAN areas, copiers, listening stations, workplaces and training rooms are also available. PC and Wii games can be tested in the children's library, which was renovated in 2011. A large study and work area for schoolchildren has been created on the third floor. An electric piano and a sound studio with a Grotrian Steinweg grand piano are available for musical practice. In addition to iPad workstations, a 3D printer and 3D scanner can also be used on the newly designed fourth floor.
In the entrance area of the central library, the culture showcase is a first meeting point and information area with internet space, presentation of current exhibition catalogs and a window projection on Cologne's cultural offerings. In July 2012, the booking (loan / return) at the service desks was canceled. Since then, customers have been able to use 6 rental machines, 4 internal returns and 2 pay machines on the ground floor. There is also an external return on the east side of the building to enable returns outside of opening hours. RFID technology is used for the loan and return devices . In 2011 the Q-thek was set up in the reading and events room. The spatial concept is part of the NRW project “Library as a Learning Place - Between Desire and Reality”, in which seven libraries in the state participated. The Q-thek combines new learning and work opportunities and modern technical equipment with furniture that invites you to stay longer. It offers library customers information, communication and relaxation.
Special facilities of the central library are: the hearing library for the blind (including access to 30,000 MEDIBUS media ), the Heinrich Böll archive , the literature collection in Cologne (Lik) and the Selle stereo collection . There is also an exhibition area with an original study by Heinrich Böll and a photo exhibition by Cologne authors. In addition, since 1979 the Germania Judaica , Cologne Library for the History of German Judaism eV, has its location in the central library.
District libraries
The branch system comprises eleven locations in the Cologne districts of Bocklemünd , Chorweiler , Ehrenfeld , Kalk , Mülheim , Neubrück , Nippes , Porz , Rodenkirchen and Sülz . The branch on Severinstraße is a specialty : It is located in Haus Balchem , a baroque-style building that was restored after the Second World War , based on the original view from the 17th century. The Bocklemünd branch is run by the library's trainers as a junior company. Another 18 districts are supplied with a bus library.
service
The service also includes current bestsellers in the areas of fiction, non-fiction, pop music and feature films. The library also offers a variety of video games for all common consoles and PCs. Users can also use interlibrary loan to obtain media and documents that are not available in Cologne. There are also regular training courses on research in databases and the Internet. There are also extensive educational programs and collaborations with schools. The school service offers specially designed educational programs for all age groups with student-activating methods for imparting media and information skills.
Virtual library
In 1996 the library was the first public library with its own web server . In the meantime, however, the homepage has been integrated into the offer of the city of Cologne . It not only offers customers fast Internet access, but also professional databases for self-research. In 2007, the city library was one of four pilot libraries for the introduction of eLibrary, a download portal for the time-bound use of digital media ( e-books , audio books , films , newspapers , magazines and music ).
Events
The library is not only a store of knowledge, but also a popular venue. The focus is on the series worth knowing , where authors and moderators come into conversation, and the series geeks @ cologne , which thematically deals primarily with technologies and web culture. Readings, exhibitions and a children's program are spread across all of the system's locations.
Reading promotion
The library offers a modular reading promotion program. The focus of the Cologne Book Babies is the language and sensory development of toddlers aged 0–3 years. Papalapap is primarily aimed at kindergartens with playful reading promotion modules such as B. the "Papalapap coloring book". The reading club follows on. Each member between 6 and 15 years of age receives an individual reading diary with age-specific tasks. Getting on reading was designed for the large number of all-day schools in Cologne. Reading diaries, voluntary work and pedagogical cooperation with teachers are combined here.
Intercultural library
As a multicultural meeting point, the library opens up many opportunities for language acquisition and cooperates with providers of integration courses. The integration project Bi-IN informs teachers of integration courses about the advantages of using the library in order to then familiarize course participants with the library as an institution. All course participants receive a three-month free trial membership.
Cooperations
Cooperative networks exist with: the Lit.Cologne , the Literaturhaus Köln , the SK Stiftung Kultur , the Belgisches Haus , the University of Cologne and the Cologne volunteer agency, the university library center of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , the adult education center Cologne and as part of the initiative Education partner NRW with many Cologne schools.
Support associations
- Förderverein Stadtbibliothek Köln eV (projects: minibib in the Cologne city garden and in the Kalker listed water tower, 2011 award in the competition 365 places in the land of ideas in the category culture ). The free, low-threshold offer works without the required ID or registration and is based on trust.
- Bookmark eV
- Literamus eV
- Friends of Haus Balchem eV
- Reading in Nippes eV
- Reading in Mülheim eV
history
The first Cologne public library opened its doors on December 3, 1890. It was financed by a foundation from the city's citizens. Through further foundations and municipal funds, twelve public libraries and eight reading halls were built by 1939. In 1924 Rudolf Reuter took over the management and opened a technical school for librarians in 1928. In 1931, Cologne became the third city after Munich and Dresden to have a mobile library . After the Second World War, numerous book donations from abroad helped to replenish the holdings of the public libraries of the time. In 1966 the city council decided to rename the city library in Cologne .
The central library, which opened in 1979, was modeled on the Anglo-American public library . The building comprises 54,800 m³ of enclosed space on a total area of 14,500 m². Two institutions in Cologne bear the name of the city library . The University and City Library of Cologne (USB) was given this name when the New University was established in 1920 , because it was initially maintained by the City of Cologne and can still be used by all citizens of Cologne today. Only in 1995 the name changed public library in the city library Cologne .
In 2015 the Cologne City Library was named Library of the Year .
literature
- Adolf Keysser: Information about the city library in Coeln. Guides for their visitors . 4th edition continued until 1905. Du Mont-Schauberg, Coeln 1905 ( digitized version )
- Brigitte Robenek: History of the Cologne City Library from its beginnings in 1890 to the end of the Second World War. Greven, Cologne 1983.
- Ursula Kobusch: The development of the Cologne city library after 1945. Homework at the University of Applied Sciences for Library and Documentation in Cologne, 1982.
Web links
- Library website
- On the website of the Goethe-Institut: The Makerspace of the Cologne City Library and an interview with the director Dr. Hannelore Vogt on the library concept
Individual evidence
- ^ "City of Cologne - budget items. Product area 'Culture and Science' and product group 'City Library'" . Retrieved October 20, 2013.
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ minibib named "Selected Location" ( memento from September 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 2, 2014
- ↑ City of Cologne event calendar March 28, 2014: minibib in the water tower: Official opening , accessed on May 10, 2014
- ^ German Library Association eV: Library of the Year 2015. In: www.bibliotheksverband.de. August 11, 2015, accessed August 12, 2015 .