Libraries of the World: The Stuttgart Public Library is called the Library of the year in Germany

Every year in Germany the city libraries, which differed with easy use and innovative approach in work, are awarded. This time the best library is located in Stuttgart.  

The Germany’s only federal award “Library of the Year” and the supplied with the honorary title 30 000 Euros this time will receive a public library in Stuttgart. This was reported on August 6 and the German association of libraries and located in Hamburg the Foundation Zeit, a charitable organization that funds projects in the fields of culture, science and education from the private capital of the founder and publisher of the Hamburg weekly Die Zeit Gerd Bucerius (Gerd Bucerius). The award will be presented on October 24 in the Library Day in Stuttgart. 

The multimedia City Library in Stuttgart, as they say in the decision of the jury, has found new ways to develop the skills and abilities necessary for the use of digital technologies. Thus, one of the first in Germany, it has provided Internet access in its halls. The jury also noted the library information service, its search engines and programs to promote books and reading in both analog mode and the web. In particular, it was marked by the so-called “Day of network security”, as part of which the theme nights dedicated to the development of media technologies, evaluation of computer games and other aspects of Internet use are held. 

The library is equipped with special sound-proofed rooms for individual or group work, as well as 400 work places on which visitors can use library laptops. In addition, the library offers office hours from Monday to Saturday from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm, and a number of round the clock services. Every year there are more than four thousand events of all kinds.