Barbara Lison 1 BREMEN PUBLIC LIBRARY --- SMALL, BUT POWERFUL

Barbara Lison 2 Rostock Hamburg Hannover Magdeburg Berlin München Erfurt Dresden Stuttgart Nürnberg Düsseldorf BREMEN Frankfurt WHERE IS BREMEN? Inhabitants: 547,000 Territory: 310 sqkm

Barbara Lison 3 The Library Network 1 central library 6 branch libraries: adults & children 1 mobile library (with 14 stops) 1 prison + 1 hospital library BREMEN

Barbara Lison 4 With a budget of about 9.7 Million € the library offered in 2008: opening hours 14,100 printed books 389,000 CDs,DVDs, games & other material 125,000 periodicals 600 events 2,700

Barbara Lison 5 Staff (Fulltime equivalent)

Barbara Lison 6 Bremen Public Libraries counted 1.27 Million visits to the premises and 1.25 Million visits to the homepage. 57,000 users held a library card and carried out 3.5 Million loans.

Barbara Lison 7 Performance 1980 – 2008 shows increasing figures

Barbara Lison 8 Output – Loans: 1:5 Input – Euros: 1:1

Barbara Lison 9 Correlation between turnover and renewal rate 1:2

Barbara Lison 10 Correlation between physical and virtual visits

Barbara Lison 11 The performance became more efficient

Barbara Lison 12 Structure of users according to library card owners 9,715 young adults 12,449 children 34,682 adults 56,846 registered users = 11 percent of the population (22 %) (61 %) (17 %)

Barbara Lison 13 IMPRESSIONS OF THE CENTRAL LIBRARY

Barbara Lison 14 IMPRESSIONS OF THE CENTRAL LIBRARY

Barbara Lison 15 IMPRESSIONS OF THE BRANCHES

Barbara Lison 16 IMPRESSIONS OF THE CENTRAL LIBRARY