Linz City Library
| Linz City Library | |
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 Headquarters in the knowledge tower
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| founding | 1939 |
| Duration | 220,000 media |
| Library type | library |
| place | Linz |
| operator | City of Linz |
| Website | Linz City Library |
The Linz City Library operated by the City of Linz represents a city library network. It is dedicated to broad popular education.
In addition to the main library in the Wissensturm , the Linz City Library has five branches in the city districts.
history
A city library existed as an archive library in Linz as early as the second half of the 19th century. The Linz City Library as a public library was founded in 1939 with a book inventory of 10,000 books, but could not be opened until 1940. The location was set up in the building of the Linz study library on Schillerplatz.
After being closed due to the war, the library was reopened in a school building in 1946. The first branch was set up in Urfahr in 1947 and in Kleinmünchen in 1949. In 1953 a printed book catalog was published, which was the most comprehensive book catalog to have appeared in Austria, West Germany and Switzerland after 1945.
In 1954 the main library was opened in Museumstrasse. This building was built in 1907 as a branch of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank. The open access system was introduced in 1956; the book inventory in that year was almost 50,000 works. In 1959 the car library of the city of Linz , a book bus, was introduced, which was discontinued in 1991.
Since 1989 the libraries have also taken over the services of the municipal authorities, thus becoming information and later citizen service centers for the city of Linz.
In 2007 the main library moved from Museumstrasse to the new Knowledge Tower at the main train station. Organizationally, the management was merged with that of the Linz Adult Education Center.
Locations
- Wissensturm (main library with media library and youth library), Kärntnerstraße 26
- Auwiesen, Wüstenrotplatz (in the Auwiesen shopping center)
- Dornach / Auhof, Sombartstraße 1–5 (in the senior center)
- Ebelsberg , Kremsmünsterer Straße 1–3 (in the Volkshaus)
- Pichling, Lunaplatz 4
- Urfahr , Hauptstrasse 1–5 (in the New Town Hall )
Former locations
- Main library Museumstrasse 15: From 1954 to 2007 the head office was in Museumstrasse. When the newly built tower of knowledge was opened, she moved there.
- AKh Linz : The branch in AKh (Kepler Universitäts-Klinikum Med Campus III) in Building A was closed in 2017.
- Einsteinstrasse: The branch in the Spallerhof shopping center was closed in 2017.
- Froschberg: The branch in Ziegeleistraße was closed when the Knowledge Tower opened in 2007.
- Hauserhof : There was a branch here from the 1950s to the 1980s.
- Keferfeld / Oed: The branch in the Volkshaus on Landwiedstrasse was closed in 2017.
- Kleinmünchen: closed around 1980.
- New home: Lilienthalstrasse (in the Volkshaus) was closed in 2016.
literature
- Doris Sikora: Library landscape in Upper Austria after the Second World War. Diploma thesis, Vienna 2013 ( online )