Positive development among rental companies and customers despite the corona crisis.
In addition to this good news, the Albert-Teuto-Bücherei also has to get over an exit.
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- With good news and less good news, Diessen's pastor Josef Kirchensteiner reported news about the Albert Teuto library this week.
Despite the mandatory Corona break and reduced opening times, the library can record a positive development in lending and customers.
Kirchensteiner was saddened by the fact that the long-time library manager Claudia Riske was leaving for personal reasons.
The Parish Church Foundation of the Assumption is now urgently looking for a successor.
A total of ten women support the management on a voluntary basis.
In 2019 they worked 2700 hours.
Kirchensteiner emphasized that, especially in times of the Corona, "reaching for a good book is precious and valuable".
1142 active readers took advantage of the Albert-Teuto-Bücherei last year.
A choice of 11,500 physical media - books, magazines, DVDs and CDs - is available on 190 square meters over two floors.
Via the connected LEOSüd platform, visitors also have access to over 60,000 electronic media.
The library's general catalog can be viewed at www.webopac.winbiap.de/diessen/index.aspx.
Interlibrary loan has really taken off.
The service was used 183 times to get non-existent specialist books or media from other libraries or libraries.
This service is gratefully used, especially by high school students and pupils.
The Church Foundation is proud of the extensive children's section on the first floor with 3201 books.
New for the little ones are the little play figures called "Tonies", which are placed on a play box.
You then play radio plays, songs or learning content.
22,723 loans - excluding the virtual media - were made in 2019.
On average, each of these media was borrowed 1.97 times.
The Sankt-Michaelsbund of the Diocese of Augsburg, of which the library is a member, has therefore awarded the “Golden Library Seal”.
The family library also met all other criteria: size and equipment, digital recording and loaning using software, and the use of exclusively volunteer employees.
Pastor Kirchensteiner and church caretaker Barbara Mann are optimistic about the future of the library, which is named after the Augustinian canon and historian Albert Teuto (14th century).
This year alone, there were already 132 new registrations.
In order to guarantee the hygiene requirements, Plexiglas protective walls were installed, disinfectants were provided and the number of visitors who were allowed to stay in the rooms at the same time - of course only with a mask - was limited.
By the way, returned books are put into “quarantine” for four days before they are offered again thoroughly cleaned and disinfected.
Dieter Roettig