Oberhausen City Library
| Oberhausen City Library | |
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| founding | 1907 |
| Duration | 250,000 |
| Library type | library |
| place | Oberhausen |
| ISIL | DE-262 |
| management | Diana villain |
| Website | www.bibliothek.oberhausen.de |
The Oberhausen City Library is the public library of the city of Oberhausen .
history
The first Oberhausen public library was opened in March 1907 and had a stock of 470 volumes. The first printed catalog from 1914 contained 3,500 titles.
When Oberhausen became a major city in the course of the municipal reorganization in 1929 through the connection of the previously independent cities of Sterkrade and Osterfeld , the public library had four branches in the districts of Oberhausen, Sterkrade, Buschhausen and Holten with a total of around 20,000 volumes.
The main office, which was bombed out in December 1944, was initially reopened on a modest scale in a school in November 1945. After a further provisional arrangement, it was finally able to move into its own building in 1953 with the “Meuthenvilla” (or Villa Concordia ). There the holdings were presented largely in open access for the first time ; at the same time, the institution changed its name from "Volksbücherei" to "Stadtbücherei".
Between 1958 and 1962, additional branches were opened and the school librarian's office started working. Due to the increasingly cramped space in the villa, the main office moved to two floors of a department store in the city center in 1975. A phonotheque was opened there in 1976 as an additional offer, initially with 400 records. The book bus started operating in 1981 .
In 1985 the central library moved into its current domicile in the Bert-Brecht-Haus on Langemarkstrasse. In 1992 the city library, as it has been known since 1991, was able to record more than a million loans for the first time. This value could be increased in the following two years, but could not be maintained in the long term. A renovation and expansion of the Brecht House announced by the city with the establishment of a reading café on the ground floor failed in 2003 because the district government vetoed the planned financing. In 2008, in connection with the budget consolidation concept of the indebted city, there were major cuts in the library's personnel and material costs. At the end of the year, the Lirich branch was closed and the book bus shut down.
In 2009, the initially postponed renovation of the Bert Brecht House began. Since reopening on September 1, 2011, the Oberhausen Central Library and the Children's Library have been given a new look. In the meantime, the library sees itself as a meeting place, place for reading promotion, educational institution and information broker. In addition to books, it also offers many other media to borrow, including primarily CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, console and radio plays. The latest innovation in the library is the lending of e-media in the online loan of the "medien-shop".
organization
Organizationally, the city library has been part of the media division since 1995, which, along with other cultural institutions such as adult education centers, city theaters and international short film days, is part of the Finance, Culture Department of the Oberhausen city administration.
The overall system is divided into the following branches and facilities:
- Central library (divided into adult and children's and youth library)
- Sterkrade district library
- Schmachtendorf school and district library (in the Heinrich Böll Comprehensive School)
- School and district library Osterfeld (in the comprehensive school Osterfeld), at the same time the seat of the school librarianship
Media from other branches can be requested for use via an internal loan system.
The Oberhausen Literary Society, founded in 1983, also acts as a support association for the city library and organizes readings, literary competitions and other events in cooperation with it.
Existence and use
At the end of 2008, the Oberhausen City Library had a media inventory of 219,116 copies, 119,517 of which belonged to the headquarters. Non-fiction had the largest share with 85,776 titles (41%), followed by 59,416 in the field of children (26%) and 52,656 titles in fiction (24%).
The library system recorded 901,117 loans in 2008, 500,000 of them in the central library and just under 195,000 in the Sterkrade district library. The children's and fiction sections each contributed roughly one-third to this.
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Thumser: Die Stadtbücherei , in: Oberhausener Heimatbuch , edit. by Wilhelm Seipp, Oberhausen 1964, p. 354.
- ↑ Information follows the statistical / tabular comparison of the most important key figures in the 2008 annual report of the media division.
literature
- We open a window into the world of information: Festschrift 100 Years of Oberhausen City Library . Laufen, Oberhausen 2007. ISBN 978-3-87468-229-9 .
- Ronald Schneider: 100 years of the Oberhausen City Library: an arduous ascent to a modern city library . In: ProLibris 13 (2008), pp. 3-6.
- Hans-Dietrich Kluge-Jindra: The new central library in the Bert-Brecht-Haus Oberhausen . In: ProLibris 17 (2012), pp. 128-129.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '14.2 " N , 6 ° 51' 9.3" E