Offenbach City Library
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| founding | 1907 |
| Duration | approx. 130,000 media units |
| place | Offenbach am Main , Hessen , Germany |
| ISIL | DE-264 |
| Website | Official website |
The Offenbach City Library (formerly Offenbach City Library ) is a municipal library of the city of Offenbach am Main and was the first open access library in Germany. The inventory comprises around 130,000 media units, including books, magazines, newspapers and other media such as audio books and CDs.
history
In 1901 a reading room was opened in the former Latin school in Herrnstrasse by the Association Committee for People's Lectures, founded in 1889, with financial aid of 500 marks from the city council . There were newspapers and magazines and about 100 reference books provided. From 1904 the official name of the city library could be used, but it was not possible to borrow it. It was not until March 17, 1907 that it became a municipal facility and moved into rooms on the first floor of the Isenburg Palace , where it remained until 1934. After the city archive was set up there, several moves followed; first to Dreieich-Park , then to the former hospital on Kaiserstraße . After this was selected as the seat of the magistrate , a move to Bismarckstrasse followed. In 1952 the move to the "Linsenberg" followed, and in 1984 to the Bernardbau, in 1986 the city library moved into a wing of the Büsing-Palais .
The Offenbach city library became the first open access library in Germany, in which every visitor could look for his books himself without having to use a librarian . In November 1953 she was therefore visited by the then Federal President Theodor Heuss .
In 1969 a branch was opened in Lauterborn , which in 1979 moved to the Edith Stein School under the name Mediothek . It was closed again in 1992 for financial reasons. There has also been a children's and youth library since 1974, and there has been a book bus (with interruptions) since 1965 . In 2002 the city library was officially renamed the city library.
Book tower
A special architectural feature of the city library is the so-called book tower . This room was designed in its first form by Adolf Bayer . The circular room is surrounded by terraces with bookshelves that look out onto an atrium that is also used for readings. The book tower is accessed via a spiral staircase and an external elevator . On the top floor there is also a hall where events take place regularly.
The Offenbach City Library has been awarding the literary prize for Writers in the Book Tower since 1979 . The previous winners were:
- 1979 - Hans-Christian Kirsch
- 1981 - Hanne F. Juritz
- 1983 - Horst Bingel
- 1985 - Saliha Scheinhardt
- 1988 - Reinhardt Jung
- 1992 - Jürgen Groß
- 1997 - Lothar Schöne
- 2000 - Burkhard spiders
- 2002 - Elke Heidenreich
- 2005 - Jan Koneffke
- 2008 - Jan Seghers
Literary quotes
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Perhaps home is the shooting star |
Safiye Can : Children of the Lost Society, Wallstein Verlag 2017, second stanza of the six-stanza poem “Maybe completely and completely”, pp. 10-11.
Awards
- 2004 - Hessian reading advancement award for the children's and youth library
- 2005 - Hessian Library Prize
- 2005 - Second place among the Hessian city libraries in the ranking of the Bertelsmann Foundation BIX
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1907: The poison of junk literature encountered with ennobling entertainment. On: offenbach.de. May 8, 2008, accessed May 3, 2016.
- ↑ Information about the Offenbach city library at kirm.de
- ↑ Chronicle of the Offenbach City Library. (No longer available online.) In: offenbach.de. March 19, 2004, archived from the original on January 13, 2016 ; Retrieved July 29, 2016 .
- ^ Writer in the book tower. ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. From: offenbach.de , accessed on May 3, 2016.
- ↑ Hessian Library Prize 2005 (PDF; 36 kB)
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 29 ″ N , 8 ° 45 ′ 39.9 ″ E