“Journey into your own reading past”
Created: 06/14/2022, 17:26
By: Nicole Kalenda
Six motifs from 60 years of the community library: (from left) community archivist Barbara Reinicke, Mayor Hermann Nafziger, library manager Sabine Scheffer and her deputy Ralf Gabel with the postcard, which is now on display in the library rooms at Pasinger Straße 14.
© Dagmar Rutt
Visiting the birthday child: Planegg's Mayor Hermann Nafziger congratulated the community library on its 60th anniversary, "the people who work here, but also the people who come here".
He emphasizes: "In no other educational and cultural institution do so many people from all generations and milieus meet." Nafziger took the opportunity to officially open the exhibition "#lesenfüralle".
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- Banners with texts and historical photos have been on display in the reading café since May 24th.
They give an overview of six decades of the community library and at the same time look to the future. "We managed to get the exhibition to open on the day," says director Sabine Scheffer.
There was already a small public library in the 1920s, but May 24, 1962 is considered the "birthday of the current library," according to Scheffer.
"A new building is needed", "Everyday work in the library", "Reading promotion" or "Changes" are the titles of the individual chapters of the exhibition initiated by the municipal archivist Barbara Reinicke and co-designed by the library team.
“In the beginning, 1,500 volumes were housed in nine square meters in the old school building.
The opening hours were three hours a week.
Escape digital fatigue
According to Scheffer, feedback has already come from former colleagues and users.
“For those who still knew the old building, it is a journey into their own reading past.
We get that reflected back.”
Scheffer and her team cannot determine that the printed book has to give way to the digital one.
"With everything digital, the need for something tangible is still there," says Deputy Manager Ralf Gabel.
The corona pandemic has caused digital fatigue.
"You want to escape from that," says Gabel.
A fifth of library users opt for e-books, "the lion's share falls back on the printed book," explains Scheffer.
The exhibition can be seen until the end of the year.
The community had special postcards made with six photos from the founding period and the present.
They are now available for visitors to the library.
