Salzburg City Library
| City: Salzburg Library | |
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| founding | 1941 |
| Duration | 180,000 media units |
| Library type | library |
| place | Salzburg |
| Website | Salzburg City Library |
The City Library Salzburg (as a word mark in the sensitive city library until 2006 town library Salzburg ) is that of the Austrian city of Salzburg powered largest public library in the province of Salzburg.
history
The city library emerged from the library of the Volksbildungsverein and was opened as a municipal library in 1941 in Salzburg 's Mirabell Palace. A youth library was added in the opening year. In 1961 the Amerika-Haus handed over a book bus to the city library, of which the third generation is currently in use. In 1993 the media library was opened as a separate branch, which also included a music department.
In 2009, a new city library was opened on the site of the former stadium in Lehen . In the urban development project called Neue Mitte Lehen , which also includes shops, an event hall, a senior citizens' center and apartments as well as a park and a market square, the main library, the children's and youth library and the media library were brought together in one building. The aim was to improve the quality of stay, additional offers (research, Internet access) and a customer-oriented presentation of the media (information portals, consolidation of topics). In July 2013, the Salzburg municipal council decided to incorporate the panorama bar, which juts out 32 meters above the building, as a reading lounge and event location.
Stock and offer
The Salzburg City Library currently holds around 180,000 items. These include books, magazines, sheet music, laser discs (CD-Video), CDs, DVDs, CD-ROMs, VHS videos, and tapes. Around 1.1 million loans (2010) are counted each year. At 22,000 people, the number of regular library users is more than 15% of the city's residents and thus in the top field in Austria-wide comparison.
Immediately after the opening of the new library, a digital library offering for downloading e-books was set up, which is accessible on the library's website. In addition, the Café Panoramabar, which is connected to the library, offers free online access to over 2000 international daily newspapers.
The Salzburg City Library also offers free literature and language-related events such as readings, book presentations and German conversation courses for migrants.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Salzburg City Library - Panorama Bar. Retrieved July 18, 2016 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 47.9 ″ N , 13 ° 1 ′ 37 ″ E