Roads in the library budget: Marbach meets it particularly hard!

Roads in the library budget: Marbach meets it particularly hard!

Ludwigsburg, Deutschland - The Marbach city library in the district of Ludwigsburg faces a serious challenge. As Stuttgarter Nachrichten the budget for 2025 was drastically halved from 47,000 euros to 24,000 euros. These cuts come brutally and the head of the library, Franziska Kunz, explains that these savings requirements are bitter and difficult to understand. As a result, fewer current novels, travel guides, magazines, films, hearing and console games can be purchased.

In addition to the consequences of these savings, the focus is now increasingly placed on educational and professional literature. In view of the almost exhausted media budget for 2025, the opportunity to make future purchases is severely restricted. But it not only remains with the media offer: new seating furniture, the necessary library software and the increase in staff also fall victim to the cuts.

effects on the users

About 1,600 people use the city library in Marbach and the local library in Rielingshausen every year. In Ludwigsburg, where similar cuts are recorded, the print edition of the event program is reduced, for example. The budget for media purchases in Ludwigsburg remains stable at 280,000 euros in 2025, but only 72,000 euros are available for digital media.

in Bietigheim and Bissingen, the situation remains stable: Here is the budget 105,000 euros for 5,400 new titles annually, and the Kornwestheim city library has a budget of 120,000 euros, with reductions being considered for 2026/2027, such as library.info) reported.

diverse uses

The Ludwigsburg library, however, remains the first point of contact for citizens: inside who want to use an extensive media offer. In addition to the traditional loan, online services such as the extension of borrowing or the management of the user account are offered. The on-loan enables digital borrowing, while the opposite loan is available for non-digital media. In addition, interested citizens can make proposals for acquiring the offer.

The situation is not only tense in Ludwigsburg. Libraries are also affected by financial cuts throughout Germany. According to Deutschlandfunk, many city libraries are in effect with serious challenges due to tense public budgets and are threatened with their existence. The libraries, which are considered the voluntary task of the municipalities, are particularly at risk.

The federal chairman Heller warns that the federal government, the federal states and municipalities urgently need to develop future -proof solutions for financing in order to maintain the offers - especially in times of crisis. After all, strong libraries are crucial for the promotion of educational justice and media literacy.

Overall, it can be seen that the domestic libraries stand in front of a narrow ridge: on the one hand the claim to provide a comprehensive and up -to -date media offer, and on the other hand the reality of drastic financial incisions. There is a need for action here in order not to be bleeding out cultural education.