Münchner Stadtbibliothek - Munich Public Library

The Munich City Library sees itself as an institution of cultural education, lifelong learning, international openness and inclusivity. It offers young and old alike non-commercial, safe spaces for personal growth and exchange with other people. In close cooperation with local institutions, associations and groups, it understands itself as a creative player in an urban network shaped by diversity. With more than 20 locations, five library buses and seven hospital libraries, it is the largest municipal library system in Germany.

As a lively metropolitan library, Munich City Library addresses current, socially relevant topics and promotes them through its collection, event program and participatory projects at its branches and in the network as a whole. A particular focus is on digital education for all age groups, media education and the strengthening of democratic values.

Expertise and focus in the field of digital preservation

In addition to its collections for the Munich public, the Munich City Library also offers collections for various academic interests, for example in the philatelic library and in the music library at the Gasteig, in the specialist law library in the town hall and in the Monacensia literature archive in the Hildebrandhaus. The Monacensia collection, for example, currently contains around 300 literary estates and collections of renowned writers with close links to Munich. These include Annette Kolb, Frank Wedekind, Oskar Maria Graf and many more. With the complete estates of Klaus and Erika Mann, over 800 letters and manuscripts from Thomas Mann and numerous archival documents from Golo, Monika, Michael and Elisabeth Mann, the Monacensia is an internationally renowned research center for the Mann family.

The Munich City Librar is developing a digital preservation strategy and the corresponding IT infrastructure in order to make the valuable historical (partially digitized) collections and the growing number of interesting estates and bequests (increasingly also born digital) accessible to an international academic and interested public in the long term. The aim is to enable cultural participation by creating a living archive: opening up the collections by means of a convergent, inspiring presentation aims to invite participation and to enrich the collection. In line with this open data approach, for example, the "Coding da Vinci Süd" cultural hackathon took place in 2019, for which the Munich City Library made a collection of historical Munich restaurant menus available to be creatively adapted.

Contact

Dr. Roland Poellinger
Münchner Stadtbibliothek
Geschäftsleitung/Direktion – eServices
Rudolf-Vogel-Bogen 5
81739 München
E-Mail: roland.poellinger@muenchen.de
www.muenchner-stadtbibliothek.de

Anna Kugler
Münchner Stadtbibliothek
Geschäftsleitung/Direktion – eServices
Rudolf-Vogel-Bogen 5
81739 München
E-Mail: anna.kugler@muenchen.de
www.muenchner-stadtbibliothek.de