Leverkusen City Library
| Leverkusen City Library | |
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| founding | 1910 |
| Duration | 127,000 |
| Library type | library |
| place | Leverkusen |
| ISIL | DE-238 |
| Website | www.kulturstadtlev.de |
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The Leverkusen City Library consists of the main office in Wiesdorf and the branches in Opladen , Schlebusch and Steinbüchel . The main office includes the video library as a department for audiovisual media and the children's and youth library .
history
History before World War II
The origins of the Leverkusen City Library can be found in the so-called “Volksbücherei”, which was housed in the school building on Hauptstrasse in what was then the Wiesdorf community in 1910 . Since the communities Bürrig and Wiesdorf had united on 1 April 1920, the name Wiesdorf and on February 12, 1921 Wiesdorf town charter was awarded, the merger of were in the course of municipalities merged the libraries in the early 1920s. In 1925, a “city library” was first mentioned in Leverkusen . At that time, the city library was still being looked after on a voluntary basis by teacher Anton Lütter, who, however, was only allowed to select the media; the library committee had to decide on their actual acquisition. Small branches still existed in the suburbs of Küppersteg and Manfort at that time . In 1926 the city library saw "[...] one of the best means of combating filth and trash in literature." The city library was thoroughly cleared of Marxist and anti- religious books in 1933 and the district administration provided 42 volumes with a value of 126 Reichsmarks available free of charge to expand the stock of books to include values of National Socialist ideas. In 1939 an advertisement from the Rheinische Landeszeitung documents the city library, which has since been renamed the Volksbücherei again: "The Volksbücherei is a source of strength for all creative people, strengthens the strength and effectiveness of the inner front during the war."
Post World War II story
In 1946 the city library had 16,000 volumes and lending operations were resumed on April 1, 1946. After a few moves, the city library moved into its new home in the Doktorsburg in Wiesdorf on July 29, 1957 . The city library was converted into an open access library based on the American model in October 1965 and also got its own youth library. After massive space problems, the city library was relocated to the former Sparkassenhalle in 1972, which was structurally integrated into the town hall. In the 1970s, the library also reached its peak with around 620,000 loans (1975). Since the library urgently needed expansion in its new building, the new wing was opened in November 1998, and on July 1, 2002, the second construction phase was the redesign of the rooms in the old building next to the town house. In 2010 the city library was spatially integrated into the newly built " Rathaus-Galerie " shopping center .
Branches today
Due to the deteriorating financial situation in the city over the years, only three branches remain today. The Schlebusch branch has been a combined school and district library since August 2008, which is professionally managed by a librarian . The librarian is supported by volunteers from the school association of the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium. The Opladen branch has also been operated as a combined school and district library since mid-January 2009.
The branch in Hitdorf has been looked after on a voluntary basis since 1994 and closed in 2015.
The branch in Steinbüchel has been run since 1998 mainly by volunteers from the Friends of the Steinbüchel Library and supported by an employee of the city library.
Inventory and services
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Media inventory
- 63,000 non-fiction and specialist books
- 27,000 novels
- 23,500 books for children and young people
- a total of 188 current newspaper and magazine subscriptions
- over 950 CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs and tutorials
- approx. 11,400 CDs and DVDs
- 400 games
- since autumn 2008 console games
Special inventory
From 1971 to 2000, the Leverkusen City Library took part in the special collection area program of the major city libraries of North Rhine-Westphalia funded by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia with the special collection area psychology . The aim of this special collection area program is the cooperative collection of German monographic scientific literature from the current production of the publishers.
Catalogs and Internet offers
- Online catalog - researching the entire range of media in the city library, pre-ordering borrowed media and renewals
- Four public internet places with printers
- A PC with OpenOffice programs and a printer
General services
- Guided tours for adults
- Loans
- Participation in the German Internet Library project
- Events on literary and current topics for adults and children
Services for schools and kindergartens
- Guided tours for kindergartens, all types of schools and grade levels
- Learning aids for all subjects as well as extensive materials for exam preparation for secondary school, secondary school leaving certificate and Abitur
- Media case for schools
Education partner NRW - library and school
Since March 25, 2006, the Leverkusen City Library has been participating in the state initiative for education partners in North Rhine-Westphalia - library and school coordinated by the NRW media consultancy. The initiative aims to motivate public libraries to offer themselves as educational partners to the schools in their catchment area and to help schools integrate the extracurricular educational partner library into their media concept in order to create a lively collaboration. In this way, the educational opportunities of children and young people are to be systematically improved on site through tried and tested forms of cooperation.
As part of this initiative, supported by funding from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, a student center was set up in the main office of the city library in autumn 2006.
Special events
- Reading gives you wings - reading aloud and hands-on hours with volunteer reading mentors for children
- Summer Reading Club (SLC) for young people aged 10 to 16
- Participation in the TOMMI children's software award since 2008
- Co-organization of the Leverkusen Book Week, which takes place every two years, Lev reads (coordination of school events + opening event)
Individual evidence
- ↑ see also Leverkusener Anzeiger of November 16, 1998
- ↑ see Greetings, Franz: History and Portrait of the City of Leverkusen
- ↑ See city archives
- ^ City archive annual report from 1933
- ↑ Rheinische Landeszeitung No. 339 from 1939
- ↑ see Rheinische Post of March 13, 1946 No. 4
- ↑ Leverkusen City Archives (ed.): Leverkusen. History of a city on the Rhine, Publishing House for Regional History, Bielefeld 2005, pp. 555f.
- ↑ Video: Lev Reads April 23. until April 30th
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 59.3 ″ N , 6 ° 59 ′ 18.5 ″ E