The Straubing Public Library is located in the historical “Salzstadel” close to the beautiful river Donau and offers more than 80.000 media, including books, magazines, audio books, DVDs, BluRays, CDs and ebooks. Almost all of them can be borrowed.
Our library stock extends over two floors:
On the ground floor you will find the library for children with children`s books, audiobooks, board games and software for learning and playing. For adults we provide educational books as well as books about leisure and hobbies. Other media here include magazines, children’s and family DVDs and BluRays. Our cafeteria provides you with all kinds of daily newspapers.
On the first floor is the management of the library.
On the second floor adults will find fiction books, non-fiction books and audio books as well as music CDs, sheet music and maps. Upstairs we also offer specific sections for young people, senior citizens and foreign citizens.
Stadtbibliothek im Salzstadel
Rentamtsberg 1
94315 Straubing
0049 9421 944 80 330
stadtbibliothek(at)straubing.de
Stadtteilbibliothek Straubing-Ost
Breslauer Straße 25
94315 Straubing
0049 9421 944 80 321
stadtbibliothek-ost@straubing.de
Sun, Mon: closed
Tue, Wed: 10 am - 6 pm
Thu: 9 am - 6 pm
Fri, Sat: 10 am - 1 pm
Tue, Fri:
07:00 - 8:30 Uhr (Open Library)
08:30 - 12:30 Uhr
12:30 - 13:30 Uhr (Open Library)
13:30 - 18:00 Uhr
Wed, Thu:
07:00 - 13:30 Uhr (Open Library)
13:30 - 18:00 Uhr
Sat, Sun:
07:00 - 18:00 Uhr (Open Library)
During Open Library hours, no staff are present. You can open the door with your library card if you are over 18 years old, have paid the annual fee, and your card is active. The premises are under video surveillance. You can view the regulations on video surveillance in Bavaria here: www.lda.bayern.de/de/thema_videoueberwachung.html.
During these times, no fees can be paid, no new registrations can be made, and no consultation sessions can be held. Media can be returned via the return box. Borrowing is done using the self-checkout machines.
You would like to know if a particular book or CD is available or where you can find it at our library?
You can look up all media in our library catalogue (www.webopac.stadtbibliothek-straubing.de).
For registration just bring your identity card or passport or your certificate of registration. Refugees need to bring their residence permit. You will receive a non-transferable library card from us. Children and young people under 18 need their parents’ permission to register. For this, a form must be filled in.
We collect a late charge if you do not bring back your media on time:
Additional charges incur for issuing a substitute library card (4,00 EUR), for as well as for media not returned to the library.
Your media can be renewed twice, provided that the book has not yet been reserved by another borrower.
If you need help with your literature search or require any information, please do not hesitate to ask our librarians on the second floor.
You are welcome to work on your projects at our workplaces in a quiet and relaxed atmosphere. In addition, we offer free WiFi, which you can use with your own devices every day during opening hours without time and volume restrictions. The workstations are equipped with power connections.
If you do not have your own device, we will provide you with one of five laptops, which can be borrowed for one day to use in the library.
With our laptops you can surf the Internet, work in OpenOffice, print out in black and white and color and save data on USB sticks. To use the laptops, you have to sign a one-off loan contract.
The fee for borrowing and using laptops is per day:
Literature, that is not available in Straubing (mainly required for academic purposes), can be obtained via inter-library loan. If you are interested, you will receive further information at the information desk on the second floor.
In our virtual library you can download ebooks, eaudios and epapers 24/7 with your PC or ebook reader. This service is free, but you need a library card.
Our library offers books, games and language courses for learning German in our new section “Deutsch lernen (learning German)”. You can listen to language courses or German audio books at our listening point on the second floor. Library users with a different first language will find novels in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Arabic as well as multilingual children’s books in our stock.
A considerable number of customers of the Straubing library are children and young people.
The items for children in the children’s library range from picture books, children’s books, audiobooks to software for learning and playing. Story hours and story book theatre for children take place at our library on a regular basis.
The teen lounge “BlueOrange” provides special literature for young people between 13 to 20. About 3,000 different items such as books, console games, comics, mangas. Many young people use the teen lounge to do their homework or to surf the Internet.
At our “Study Centre” we offer educational books for different school subjects as well as guidebooks for career choice and job application.
