The Fouqué Library

The Fouqué Library - public library of the city of Brandenburg an der Havel renders an important contribution to fulfilling the constitutional requirement for all segments of the population to be able to inform themselves without hindrance from generally accessible sources (Constitution Article 5, paragraph 1), opening a path to participation in cultural and social life within the modern information society to the general public. It sees itself as a “practical library" for all types of user, meeting with its services and media a central mission in culture and education of our time.

Simultaneously the Fouqué Library contributes to the achievement of equal opportunities and lifelong learning of each individual. In addition to information and public education the library serves both vocational education and training and meaningful leisure activities, but particularly essential literacy and media and information competency. The library has also long been a place of communication which has become increasingly a multimedia and multicultural meeting place holding all kinds of events.

The library holds non-fiction books from all areas of knowledge, reference books for vocational education, reference books of all kinds, magazines and newspapers, fiction and entertainment, children's books and special user groups targeting such as foreign language books.

The stock is constantly updated. Audio-visual media (DVDs, voice and music CDs), games, electronic and digital media (compact discs, CD-ROMs, DVDs) have been regular fare for years along with PCs with public Internet access points. The Fouqué Library has offered electronic loans since 2008, a selection of media may be downloaded to a home PC with a mouse click).

The stock size is around 108,000 media.

The municipal library system consists of the central library, the children's library, the youth library, the north library and the Hohenstücken city library. The book and media collections are presented through a mixture of target group oriented and systematic manually arranged displays.