Lichtenberg City Library

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Lichtenberg City Library
Linden-Center Hohenschönhausen (2009) .jpg

Lindencenter with Anna Seghers library

Duration by 280,000
Library type library
place Berlin
ISIL DE-B460 (Anton Saefkow Library)
DE-B2139 (Anna Seghers Library)
operator District Office Lichtenberg
of Berlin
management Daniela Bell
Website berlin.de

The Lichtenberg City Library is part of Berlin's public library system . It is sponsored by the Lichtenberg District Office (Human Resources, Finance, Real Estate and Culture Department). In 2018, the library had a media inventory of 273,531, of which 637,131 visitors borrowed around 1.5 million times. In addition, the library organized over 2900 events, guided tours and exhibitions in the same year. The four municipal branches bear the names of writers and an anti-fascist resistance fighter.

Facilities and organization

There are currently four different facilities in the district. The district central library is the Anna Seghers Library in the Neu-Hohenschönhausen district . The Anton Saefkow Library received the Library of the Year award in 2011 from the German Library Association. V. (dbv) and the Zeit Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius . This only national library award recognizes “outstanding and exemplary library work”.

Library locations in the Lichtenberg district
Surname address District Duration Namesake
District Central Library
Anna Seghers Library Prerower Platz 2, 13051 Berlin Neu-Hohenschönhausen Anna Seghers
District libraries
Anton Saefkow Library Anton-Saefkow-Platz 14, 10369 Berlin Fennpfuhl Anton Saefkow
Egon Erwin Kisch Library Frankfurter Allee 149, 10365 Berlin Lichtenberg Egon Erwin Kisch
Bodo Uhse Library Erich-Kurz-Strasse 9, 10319 Berlin Friedrichsfelde Bodo Uhse

In addition, there are two university libraries in the district that are not subordinate to the district office:

  • Central library Campus Treskowallee 8 (district Karlshorst ) for students of the HTW ,
  • Library on the Lichtenberg Alt-Friedrichsfelde 60 campus (for students at the HWR ); it claims to have more than 115,000 conventional, electronic, and audiovisual media units.

The district library is part of the Association of Berlin Public Libraries (VÖBB) and is connected to the nationwide interlibrary loan system. This gives you access to over 2.7 million media titles. Between 2011 and 2015, the Senate installed the RFID system, which allows users to borrow items themselves. This enabled the library staff to automate simple processes so that more advice and support is now possible.

media

The entire district library has a media inventory of 273,531 copies (as of the end of 2018), mainly monographs , magazines and electronic media such as compact discs , DVDs , Blu-ray discs , e-book readers and board games.

In addition, each library organizes readings, lectures, discussion evenings, concerts, exhibitions, film evenings and more. In the Lichtenberg facilities, 2901 corresponding events took place in 2018.

Each branch has reading rooms on site, but mostly lends the books to private individuals to take away. They have to get a membership card from the library network and can thus borrow all materials free of charge. The library card has been free for users under the age of 18 since 2018.

Cooperation partner

To support the work of the libraries in the district, the support group of Lichtenberger Bibliotheken e. V. , which is located in the Anton Saefkow Library. In addition, there is intensive cooperation with local citizens' associations, the adult education center and housing associations or cooperatives.

In close cooperation with the Lichtenberg Adult Education Center, the participants in integration, literacy and orientation courses were also familiarized with the library's offerings.

Together with the ADFC and its fLotte Berlin project , the four libraries have been offering cargo bikes for free loan since 2018.

history

General development of the library system in Berlin (1920–1990)

On September 7, 1926, the Berlin city council decided to transfer responsibility for the public libraries in the greater Berlin city ​​area to the district offices that had been established with the large community . Usually the public libraries were housed in the town hall or in a nearby building.

As a result of the massive destruction of buildings at the end of World War II , library holdings were also lost. However, the residents' need to read and learn remained unbroken, so that the demand for book loan options rose sharply again from 1945 onwards. National Socialist literature was separated from the library holdings right from the start .

The newly formed district offices set up new public libraries with rescued books and magazines, including donations in kind and money.

In the Lichtenberg district

This listed building, erected in 1928 for the Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse Berlin-Lichtenberg, has housed the district library alongside the social insurance institution for the Lichtenberg district since the 1940s .

In 1943 the main office of the Lichtenberger Volksbücherei was located at Deutschmeisterstraße 4. It had branches in:

  • Biesdorf, Alt-Biesdorf 58
  • Kaulsdorf-Nord, Adolfstrasse 25/26
  • Kaulsdorf-Süd, Ulmenstrasse 79–85
  • Lichtenberg, Atzpodienstraße 45
  • Lichtenberg, Möllendorffstraße 5b (music and specialist library)
  • Mahlsdorf, Walderseestrasse 41–44, now: At the school
  • Marzahn, Dorfaue, now: Alt-Marzahn (school)

In 1957 there were the following ten branches in the then Lichtenberg district (which until 1979 also included the districts of Biesdorf , Hellersdorf , Kaulsdorf , Mahlsdorf and Marzahn , but in 2001 Malchow, Hohenschönhausen, Wartenberg and Falkenberg were added):

  • Youth library AS Makarenko , Türrschmidtstraße 33,
  • Children's and Music Library, Deutschmeisterstraße 4 (before 1945: house number complex 16–24),
  • Volksbücherei Biesdorf, Köpenicker Straße 1,
  • Volksbücherei Friedrichsfelde, Alt-Friedrichsfelde 45,
  • Volksbücherei Karlshorst, Ehrlichstrasse 1,
  • Volksbücherei Kaulsdorf, Georgstraße 11,
  • Lichtenberg Public Library, Deutschmeisterstraße 4 (formerly: 16–24),
  • Volksbücherei Lichtenberg, Skandinavische Straße 23,
  • Volksbücherei Mahlsdorf, Hönower Straße 76,
  • Volksbücherei Marzahn, Alt-Marzahn 51 (school).

At the beginning of the 1970s, the Lichtenberg district maintained the following lending offices, which were no longer called public libraries , but general public libraries :

  • Lichtenberg district library, Deutschmeisterstraße 4, all the other facilities mentioned above, including the music library, had now become branches.

The library in the street Alt-Friedrichsfelde had moved to the Volkradstraße 30 (passage) in the newly built Hans-Loch-Viertel , special children's libraries were added:

  • Biesdorf, Oberfeldstrasse 210,
  • Friedrichsfelde, Volkradstrasse 30,
  • Karlshorst, Hermann-Duncker-Strasse 112,
  • Rummelsburg, Kaskelstrasse 42,
  • Rummelsburg, Weitlingstrasse 28.

In the mid-1980s, the following libraries can be found in the Lichtenberg district after the districts of Biesdorf, Hellersdorf, Kaulsdorf, Mahlsdorf and Marzahn were spun off in 1979 and the structures had changed:

  • City district library on Anton-Saefkow-Platz, at the same time information and consultation point,
  • Central "training" in Deutschmeisterstraße 4,
  • Egon Erwin Kisch Library, Frankfurter Allee 149,
  • Branches for adults:
    • Scandinavian Street 23,
    • Ehrlichstrasse 1
  • Branch offices for adults and children:
  • Branch for children at Hermann-Duncker-Straße 112.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification , the municipal library system was now organized according to federal German regulations, and the number of branches had to be gradually reduced, primarily for cost reasons. This resulted in the above four libraries with an extensive range.

gallery

  • Anna Seghers Library in the Linden Center, in the 1990s

  • Anna Seghers Library 1986

  • Anton Saefkow Library

  • Egon Erwin Kisch Library

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Office for Further Education and Culture of the District Office Lichtenberg, Department City Library Berlin-Lichtenberg
  2. ↑ a b c Annual Report 2018 Berlin Public Libraries (PDF file)
  3. ↑ Berlin-Lichtenberg City Library at www.berlin.de/Ba-lichtenberg; accessed on October 22, 2018.
  4. ↑ Information on the Anton Saefkow Library at www.berlin.de/ba-lichtenberg; accessed on October 22, 2018.
  5. ^ Library on the Lichtenberg campus , accessed on October 22, 2018.
  6. ↑ VÖBB homepage
  7. ^ The RFID project for Berlin's public libraries , accessed on October 23, 2018.
  8. ↑ Total holdings extrapolated from the individual details of the four municipal district libraries, each of which indicates a range from "30,001 to 100,000". As of autumn 2018.
  9. ↑ Brief information on the library sponsorship group
  10. ↑ a b fLotte Berlin - Free cargo bikes - powered by ADFC. In: flotte-berlin.de. March 15, 2020, accessed March 21, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Libraries and reading rooms . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, III, p. 59.
  12. ^ Telephone book for Berlin (East), 1957 .
  13. ↑ a b Telephone book for the capital of the GDR. Berlin. Edition 1972
  14. ^ Telephone book for the capital of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin. Edition 1986 .