Offenbach City Library is taking part in the campaign of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association #NieWiederIstJetzt.
Libraries are places of diversity and democracy. Everyone is welcome here, regardless of origin, skin color, religion, age, gender or sexual orientation.
The city library introduces itself
The city library consists of the adult, children's and school teams (school library and book bus). With 270,000 visits a year, it is the most frequented cultural and educational institution in Offenbach. With over 500 events for children, young people, families, adults and senior citizens, the city library is an important educational partner for schools, daycare centers and extracurricular educational institutions and a popular meeting place in Offenbach. The city library team consists of 30 employees
The city library was founded in 1901 and was Germany's first open-access library and thus far ahead of its time. For the first time, anyone interested could browse through the books themselves and select the books they wanted to borrow without having to first order them from a librarian, who then decided whether the desired reading material was suitable for the person or not.
Mission and mission statement
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The social mission of the municipal library is set out in the Hessian Library Act:
"As educational institutions, libraries are partners for lifelong learning. They are places of science, culture, encounters and communication. They promote the acquisition of knowledge and thus social integration. They play an active role in the further development of society. Libraries are service providers for the modern knowledge society, which sees knowledge as a common good in which every member of society can participate and contribute. They strengthen the reading, media and information skills of their users through appropriate measures and through cooperation with other educational institutions." § Section 2 of the Hessian Library Act
Mission statement
The city library is a lifelong learning companion for all citizens of the city
The learning opportunities support people in acquiring key skills.
In its events, the city library focuses on promoting the following key skills:
Language skills (includes reading, writing and communication skills)
Information literacy or research skills: For example, we teach people how to conduct reliable research on the internet, evaluate sources and recognize fake news.
Media literacy: We provide support in using and operating different types of media and learning how to deal critically with content and expand personal digital media literacy
The offers promote the opportunity for citizens to participate in society.
Close cooperation with school and extracurricular educational institutions in the city is important here.
The school services offered by the children's library, the book bus and the school library service complement each other, build on each other and are based on the core curricula of the Hessian Ministry of Culture, Education and Opportunities.
The quality and professionalism of the services are achieved by the fact that
the employees take pedagogical principles and didactic-methodical principles into account and undergo continuous further training,
the courses are based on the latest scientific findings (e.g. studies on the development of pupils' reading and text skills are included),
social developments are taken into account (e.g. a change in media usage behavior in the population).
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