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„Afterwards, the way in which the borrowing system functions in the Munich City Library was explained to us. We were impressed by the way in which library users could borrow books from another branch at their neighborhood library. Furthermore, we were also introduced to a plant exchange program during which people could bring plants from their own home and exchange them with the flowers provided by the library and municipality.
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During the introduction in the services provided in the “glass pyramid” library, the group found out that there is both a borrowing system for physical documents and access to databases where users can find numerous documents, such as the Tigerbooks, containing over 3,000 electronic books and audio books, and the Genios Presseportal, where users can consult over 1,100 newspapers and magazines. Also, the library provides access to an eLearning platform with more than 1,700 electronic learning courses and to the Sprachkurse von Rosetta Stone, which offers access to numerous language courses.
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Here, the extensive digitization program developed by the National Library was introduced to us and we were told how the library has started to enrich their catalogue by retrospectively adding the context table of each book. […]„
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