Tag: libraries
Libraries: City Council calls for libraries to be open on Sundays
Libraries City Council calls for libraries to be open on Sundays Borrow a book or browse the library on Sunday? So far this is not possible. photo © Robert Michael/dpa…
The children’s library in Blutenburg Castle is closing for renovation. – Munich
After 40 years, the time has now come: The children’s library in Blutenburg Castle will be modernized and will therefore be closed from November 1st to March 21st, 2024. Although…
Max Dudler’s library buildings in an exhibition in Munich – Munich
You still have to get past Thucydides, the founder of scientific historiography. Homer, Aristotle and Hippocrates have also been guarding the entrance to the “Stabi” as stone sculptures for almost…
The government wants libraries open in the evening and on Sundays
The government wants to encourage public libraries to extend their opening hours to evenings and Sundays, to encourage the French to come back, Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak announced on…
Attacks on libraries: "field of action of the New Right"
Anti-Semitic flyers, threatened employees, books being cut up with knives: the Kulturkampf has reached the libraries. source site
Internet Archive: The Last Stand of the Digital World Spirit – Media
The “Internet Archive” stores websites, but also digitizes cultural heritage and offers it to the public, like a lending library. It has made powerful enemies for itself. When the internet…
Streaming and Media Libraries: The Remix
Disney + introduces advertising, Netflix flirts with Helene Fischer: will the streaming services be like the old television – and what will happen to the German TV stations? source site
Most beautiful libraries in the world: baroque splendor and paneled treasure chambers
Libraries are “well-kept gardens, where at every step new flowers spring up, beautifying the area, and fragrant with pleasure.” This is what the German theologian and educator Johann Christoph Stockhausen…
Bavaria: Museums and archives in Coburg establish an emergency network – Bavaria
In Coburg, several museums and archives have joined forces to form a so-called emergency network. As the General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives announced, there is now such an…
Munich: New research and library network MAIA founded – Munich
If someone is doing research in the Five Continents Museum and needs a book from the Central Institute for Art History – what to do? The new library network “MAIA”…