Saarbrücken City Library

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Saarbrücken City Library
Saarbruecken City Library
The Saarbrücken City Library

Duration 187,000
Library type library
place Saarbrücken
ISIL DE-178
operator State capital Saarbrücken
Website http://www.bibliothek.saarbruecken.de/

The Saarbrücken City Library is the largest municipal public library in Saarland with a public area of ​​over 2700 square meters, spread over five floors . It is located in the Rathaus-Carrée on Gustav -gler-Platz.

History of the city library

The city library was founded in 1924 as the Saarbrücken city library. The holdings were taken over from various sources, such as the library of the teachers' association, the popular education association and the St. Arnual Abbey. The first branch is opened in Burbach in 1925, and the first motorized mobile library is used two years later.

In 1944, during the Second World War, the library's holdings were destroyed by bombing. The move to the Rathaus-Carrée on Gustav -gler-Platz took place in 1998. Since 1993, the city library has been training to become a specialist in media and information services.

facts and figures

The library has a stock of around 150,000 media, which is distributed across the headquarters in Rathaus-Carrée, the onleiheSaar and the book bus. On average, around 480,000 media are borrowed each year, including onleiheSaar. The library has around 12,000 registered users. In 2018, 478,502 media were loaned out. 277,507 people visited the library in 2018.

deals

The head office has had an electronic self-checkout system for borrowing media since 2011 and a return machine since 2012.1 The facility includes an internet lounge and a reading café with a hot drinks machine, magazines and the latest daily newspapers. Free WiFi is available throughout the house.

There are also IT workstations, PC work booths, a work room, photocopiers and reading glasses to borrow. An event room offers space for exhibitions, vernissages and lectures.

The library is barrier-free. It has a disabled toilet, a child-friendly toilet, a baby changing room and a passenger lift that can be used to access all floors. The library organizes events such as guided tours, exhibitions, readings for children, language cafés, games meetings and the annual summer reading.

Book bus and book taxi

The book bus has supported reading promotion on site since the 1980s. It goes to primary schools in the Saarbrücken districts and has around 6,200 media. In addition, the book bus brings media ordered as a book taxi to these contact points to people with restricted mobility.

OnleiheSaar

In 2012, the city library was the first library in Saarland to lend electronic media. Today, several Saarland libraries participate in the onleiheSaar network. OnleiheSaar offers e-books, e-papers and e-audios for loan on e-readers, smartphones, tablets or computers. The Saarbrücken City Library lends out e-readers for this purpose and, if required, offers consultation hours for using the onleiheSaar.

Regional studies department

The scientific and regional studies department was created in 1938, when the library of the "Historical Association for the Saar Region" was merged with the local history inventory of the city library.

It has a special role in the library because it has both a collective order and an archive function. In addition to the regional and family history collections, you will find fiction (sometimes also dialect literature) by authors from the region. The holdings are made up of items on permanent loan from the Historical Society, the Working Group for Saarland Family Research (ASF), the Saarland State Association of Stamp Collectors and the company's own media.

In total, there are around 35,000 media. Around 6,000 of these are in the open access area. The strengths of the holdings lie in the large number of regional local family books, the density of titles and authors among Saarland novelists and a large number of genealogical journals (through cooperation with the ARSP).

Enno Spielhagen Archive

In 2018, the city library took over the Enno-Spielhagen archive with over 28,000 records, including singles and long-playing records from German and international popular music from the 1950s to 1970s. Enno Spielhagen was a popular radio announcer, presenter and disc jockey for Radio Luxemburg, Europawelle Saar and Saarländischer Rundfunk.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chronicle of the City Library. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Data and facts. In: Saarbrücken City Library. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Offers and services. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Book bus of the city library. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
  5. ^ Onlending in and via the city library. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
  6. ^ Scientific and regional studies department of the city library. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 3.4 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 45 ″  E