Materials Service

Would you like to make an appointment to exchange media? You can use our booking system to select from available dates and reserve directly.

Booking rules:

• Bookings are only possible after registration with a user number for the booking system. Please contact landesfachstelle@slub-dresden.de for this purpose .
• Bookings are possible up to 7 calendar days before the date.
• Please delete entries if you do not need appointments - this will help other libraries.

To the booking system

Would you like to use media from the supplementary stock, maker boxes or our gaming cases, but have no way of getting to Chemnitz? No problem: our media courier will be happy to deliver to your library.

What are the terms of delivery?

• For delivery requests, please contact Isabel Kittler - if possible up to 4 weeks before the desired date.
• The delivery includes a maximum of 100-150 media.
• Please use the online catalog to select media in advance and make a note of the desired media. Or bundle your title requests in an e-mail. You are also welcome to specify topics or let yourself be surprised by our media selection. Please send this e-mail to landesfachstelle@slub-dresden.de.
• If you need the data records for your catalog, please indicate this as well.

Lifelong learning is also essential for library staff. Up-to-date specialist books make an important contribution to this. That is why you will find a large selection of specialist library literature in the State Office. The collection includes literature and journals on librarianship, media skills and reading promotion, cultural policy and other relevant topics.

Online catalogue of the LFS → Current specialist literature (in German)

Do you already have a makerspace in your library? Makerspaces are creative workshops. They invite their users to take part in craft, technical or artistic activities and at the same time provide them with all the facilities they need to realise their ideas on site. In this way, makerspaces support the transformation of libraries into places to spend time, communicate and meet. The State Office would like to promote this development and provides various MakerBoxes for borrowing.

Online catalogue → MakerBoxes (in German)

A media station in the Saxon State Office for Libraries is currently showing excerpts from the state's SAVE program. SAVE - Safeguarding the Audio-Visual Heritage in Saxony - is a programme to preserve, digitize and make available a selection of historical film, video and sound recordings from Saxony. As part of the state program, the SLUB works together with the Saxony Film Association. The digitized media are currently made publicly accessible in the SLUB's online media library.

The media station also makes it possible to show digitized material in public spaces, especially where the recordings were made. In this way, the SAVE state program can be made better known and, ideally, further sources can be acquired.
The station will be made available to local authorities (libraries, museums, archives, etc.) for loan and videos from the respective region will be shown.

Are you interested in the SAVE media station? Then please contact us or get in touch directly via SAVE.

SAVE - Safeguarding the audio-visual heritage in Saxony

SAVE at the Filmverband Sachsen e. V.
 

As part of the cooperation project ""lesen – verstehen - handeln" (read - understand - act), the Saxon State Centre for Political Education provides selected materials free of charge in Saxon public libraries.

The aim is to provide library users with the opportunity to obtain current publications on current affairs beyond the library collection by taking them home.

Details on the cooperation and how to order(PDF in German)

The Chance Inclusion initiative of the German Center for Accessible Reading (dzb lesen) aims to expand the range of entertainment, non-fiction and specialist literature available in public libraries for people with visual impairments. Partner libraries can offer their users accessible materials to order. They are then delivered quickly and postage-free to the person's home via dzb lesen. Once the loan period has expired, the materials can simply be returned to the initiative.

Other partner libraries are very welcome. At the beginning of the cooperation, employees receive appropriate training. The information portal for partner libraries provides all the necessary information in a compact format. You will also find all training dates as well as text modules and image material for downloading to promote the new offer on your own website. Are you interested? Then simply get in touch with us!

New: Interlibrary loan service for libraries
The project has expanded its services to include an interlibrary loan option for libraries. Libraries can now order all materials from dzb lesen directly via the online catalogue after registering. The service is only available to the Chance Inklusion target group, i.e. people with a visual impairment or reading disability (e.g. dyslexics). Details on interlibrary loans and how to register for this service can be found on the "Chance Inclusion - Library Initiative" project page (in German).

Contact project coordinator "Chance Inklusion":

Caroline Schürer
Phone: 0341 7113-201
Email: c.schuerer@dzblesen.de

With the "Sächsischen Bücherkoffer" (Saxon Book Case), the Saxon Literature Council presents ten selected new publications by authors and translators in and from Saxony in spring and fall.

To the current recommendations (in German)