History Friedrich-von-Raumer-Bibliothek

stallschreiberstraße in ruins after air raid of 3 february 1945

after beginning of second world war library no. i had close children s reading room, 4. kinderlesehalle, since premise taken on air raid precautions unit (arp), decontamination squad. in wearisome later war years, of 1942, adult users busy ever extended weekly working time people age of 18 made 57% of users. staff reduced again 31 12 recruiting men war , women obligatory other labour.

on 3 february 1945 47th , 7th school , library no. i both heavily damaged in air raid on fore-noon, of luisenstadt neighbourhood had been bombed ashes. school, many public buildings hosting arp units, saved burning out completely, library no. i @ least rescue of holdings , other equipment. moved location on tempelhofer ufer 15, in tempelhofer vorstadt (de) neighbourhood.

in summer 1945 once forbidden books stored away since march 1933 in premises of stadtbibliothek berlin handed on again 43 public libraries, out of 106 of 1939, @ able resume operation. in september 1945 georgy zhukov ordered state-owned , private public libraries in berlin have hand in literature of nazi , militarist content. in march 1946 recorded bookstock had halved , staff reduced third compared 1939.

in june 1946 allied kommandatura confirmed zhukov s order of september 1945. otto winzer, head of public education department in soviet-appointed new magistrate 4 allied sectors of berlin, ordered on 6 june 1946 libraries closed in order separate out books of nazi weltanschauung, of revanchist , monarchy-glorifying opinion. winzer s department set specified black list of titles separated out. however, in library no. i, on western sectors black list circulated magistrate not followed since considered subsuming many titles of other leaning national socialistic or militarist.

all remaining librarian staff assessed political leaning during nazi dictatorship. head of library no. i, in charge before nazi period, assessed being bourgeois democrat, fellow head colleagues in kreuzberg. thereafter library no. i reopened. new librarians educated, working on 3 week days, , learning 3 days in new librarian school of berlin.

the replenishment of bookstock, centrally directed department of public education under communist auspices within undivided magistrate, brought many soviet glorifying , communist literature libraries. after separating city administrations 1 eastern sector , 3 western sectors in november , december 1948 library no. i, public libraries in west berlin, came under newly built library department in west berlin. new western department urged separating out of books, time considered being communist propaganda. political division of berlin caused many librarians working in east berlin, experienced , qualified, quitting jobs , applying @ libraries in western sectors. migration ended in 1961, when berlin wall inhibited it. compared librarians in west of germany background of many librarians in west berlin , general experience of west berliners communist rule in east partially explains reluctance books of communist authors, of socialist leaning (not confused social democratic) east bloc provenance acknowledged in purchasing conferences held librarians.

verband der deutschen buchdrucker building, dudenstraße 10.

in august 1951 library no. i moved location in verbandshaus der deutschen buchdrucker on dudenstraße 10, reading room opened months later. bookstock had recovered in numbers, antiquated, since due lack of funds, many book donations of poor shape, quality , currentness had been integrated collection.

in 1953 alfred kalisch (*1925) became head of library no. i. after in 1954 new central public library west berlin, america memorial library (amerika-gedenkbibliothek, agb), financed through mccloy grant in memory of enduring berlin blockade west berliners , western allied forces involved, had opened doors attracted many kreuzbergers prior used frequent 1 of 4 smaller public libraries in borough of kreuzberg.

part of attractiveness of agb derived being american-type open access library, whereas of berlin s other libraries held small shares of bookstock in open access, non-lending collection. opening agb, again gave berlin libraries push forwards in development. on 31 march 1955, after years of campaigning, alexander dehms (de) (1904–1979; head of kreuzberg s public libraries 1949 1969 , member of house of representatives of berlin), succeeded in putting berliner büchereigesetz (berlin library act) through provided expansion, better funding , improved equipment of west berlin s public libraries through budgetary items earmarked libraries.

building dudenstraße 12–20, seen southwest

this new act enabled constructing new library buildings in west berlin, library no. i move newly built location, built 1954 , 1955 , addressed dudenstraße 12–20 , methfesselstraße 45–49. library moved dudenstraße no. 10 neighbouring building entrance @ no. 18–20. hoffmann , taut, architects of prior location of new one, had designed modern building bright rooms. library no. i profited new act, in 1960s de facto suspended house of representatives when earmarking of funds libraries skipped. after library development plan, fixed under library act, had expired in 1965, public funding never recovered.

view outside children s department in illuminated rotunda tholobate.

on occasion of reopening library no. i renamed friedrich von raumer library. new premise designed open access library right beginning. kreuzberg s central public bookbindery moved zossener straße new building. reading room closed , converted open access library of juvenile literature in 1957. in same year bookbindery moved kreuzberg borough hall on yorckstraße 4–11. in 1969 kalisch succeeded dehms head of kreuzberg s public libraries.

in 1971 raumer library received subject heading catalogue. following 1968 movement labour , forms of collaboration among librarians became less hierarchic, more collegial , broader number of personnel included in decision taking. informal new panels seized tasks of other boards, in 1977 purchase conference ceased meet, , librarians involved in decision taking. these new forms of collaboration entailed high identification of librarians work , library.

room in ground floor of part of building addressed dudenstrasse #18

in 1987 library closed time due thorough overhaul. in 1988 raumer library started lending cds. in 1996 spd faction in kreuzberg borough assembly moved assessing possibility , consequencies of closing raumer library , bona peiser library. in signature campaigns more 5,000 people came out in favour of maintaining concerned libraries. libraries remained, however, kreuzberg budget book , media purchases cut dm 400,000 210,000 in 1997. in late 2000 raumer library became part of vÖbb.