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The library offers many rooms which can be used as show or adventure room. This is an attractive offer for different users, since you have access to an infrastructure that you do not find at home. Moreover, the library particularly changes its appearance through exhibitions and other cultural events to in order to stay interesting and invite people from different social classes for a visit.
Another factor we want to achieve through a variety of possibilities on offer and rooms for contacts are the key events, which always have a connection to our library and therefore have an ongoing effect on the bond of our users to information facilities.
Showroom effect
Lecture room
You can find this approach if you look at our technical equipment, for example, in our group work and presentation rooms, which supports the learning process of our students.
Last year the lecture room was equipped with a smart board with internet access as well as with practical, comfortable and most important flexible furniture, including LED light fixtures. This redesigning led to an increased usage of the rooms from 70% to nearly 90%.
Interactive components
Near the information desk at the start of 2013 the first multi-touch screen became operative. It can be used in many different ways. If not used by our students, it is mostly used as advertising space with references to upcoming events and visualization of the occupancy rate of the group work rooms. For this device the feature of 3D visualization of the library, including points of interest, was specially developed. Furthermore, based on that visualization, a special search system for printed books is available. The multi-touch screen is also used during tours through the library, to advertise our different diversity of information. Especially for improvised, spontaneous tours of small groups the multi touch has proved itself useful. These tours are often carried out with the help of audio guides or tablets. The latter can be borrowed at the information desk.
Cultural room
Due to the building concept and its acoustic features, the first floor of the library perfectly suits for library support or even library distant events. Furthermore, these suitable features are supported by the proper technical environment, such as lighting and audio technical features.
Readings
The library is used as a room for readings by authors like Boris Pfeiffer, Kirsten Boie, Thilo Reffert, Dieter Moor, Wladimir Kaminer, Michael Tsokos every year as well as presenters such as Guido Cantz. Many of these readings are organized in cooperation with Buchhandlung Radwer, Königs Wusterhausen, a local bookstore.
Concerts
Even more often the first floor of the library is used for concerts. The close cooperation with the local Lions Club enables the yearly New Year’s concert, with this year being the 7th concert in a row. Further partnerships with institutions, the local music school Fröhlich or local music groups, grant us interesting, yearly appearances, for example, at private view exhibitions. Another cooperation regards the “Schlosskonzerte Königs Wusterhausen”. Last year they played for the first time in our hall. This year two more of these concerts are planned.
Library as scenery
The library is also used as a location for different events like the opening of the scientific week, anniversaries like the 25th anniversay of the university and ceremonial addresses. The political series „mit Spitzenpolitikern im Gespräch“ can also be mentioned here.
Reading night
Once a year, local school children are invited to participate in our reading night which combines educational and funny themes. During this night, children and teens are invited to spend the night in the library where they are offered a rich program of activities. These activities includes crafting, reading fiction books, designing their own book covers, hiking to the local public library which includes picturebook cinema, quizzes and much more. Over the years, this event became very popular and is now well visited by approximately one hundred participants every year.
Exhibitions
At least once a year the interior of the library is enriched by exhibitions containing pictures often regarding current themes or the technical past of the area. For example, last year Anja Teske displayed pictures of Chinese local markets with this slogan: “it is important that everybody has glasses and dishes”. Also, there is an exhibition of pictures with another slogan: “craft of yesterday and tomorrow” which you can find in our library beginning this April. The exhibitions in our library also include difficult themes, like the forced laborers in the factories of Wildau.
Virtual exhibitions
Technical infrastructures were built to keep some exhibitions alive after closure. An example for that would be the exhibition of “Zukunftsbilder” with the works of refugee children,which is hosted by the association “refugium Magdeburg e. V”.
StadtLesen – library extension as open air
In Spring 2015 the outdoor event “StadtLesen”, which is hosted by the innovation workshop of Salzburg, took place in Wildau, lasting four days, for the first time. This will be repeated this year.
That means that three hundred square meters of courtyard in front of the library, a part of the university campus, will be filled with thousands of books and comfortable furniture, to invite passengers and passersby to sit down and read. Besides that, there is a varied program of readings and activities for adults and children. It will also hopefully have an impact on integration, since foreign students read books in their native language and then translate them.
Add-ons
There are also different event formats which help to use our rooms, apart from the general library context. That includes a writing workshop that has repeatedly taken place under the slogan: “Long night of delayed homework”, chess tournaments and fast reading competitions. We are convinced that although libraries have and should have a serious assignment, it should still be allowed to have fun in them.
