A warm welcome!
The Hilden City Library is spread over a total of three floors, all of which are barrier-free.
There is a magazine area on the first floor with magazines on a wide range of topics. Daily newspapers can be read comfortably anywhere in the house. Family, children's and strategy games are available in the board games area. Books on gaming and video games for the Nintendo Switch, Playstation 5 and other consoles round off the range of games.
There is also a separate section with Blu-rays and DVDs for young people and adults as well as the lending bar. The LeihBar is a library of things, so items such as a mini projector, action cam, sewing machine and much more can be borrowed.
The 1st floor houses the novel section, the children's department, the "Generation Plus" location, audio books and the parents' library. The youth section and our study room are located on the 2nd floor, as are the internet café and the non-fiction books for adults. In addition, the city library offers numerous seating options that invite you to linger.
Online media management
Via the union catalog "Bibnet" you can perform searches at any time, view your current account overview, renew borrowed media and use the digital media offers.
Our event tips:
Numerous individual and series events are held throughout the year for a wide range of target groups. The offer includes, among other things, reading sessions, author readings, comic and manga drawing courses, gaming events, repair meetings as well as technology and sewing workshops.
3D printer introductory course
The Hilden City Library offers training courses to give anyone who is not yet familiar with 3D printers an introduction to 3D printing. In this course, we will teach you the basics of 3D printing, show you how to create 3D models and give you inspiration for your own creative project.
The "Prusa i3 MK3S+" 3D printer is available for free use by Hilden City Library customers. It can be used to produce numerous figures or useful spare parts in just a few steps.
Participation is possible from the age of 12 and is free of charge. Young people aged 12-15 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian during the introduction.
Registration is now possible via our participation portal.
Gameplay!
As part of the games meeting, young people aged 12 and over have the opportunity to try out different games on the games console and play with or against each other.
Participation is free of charge and registration is now possible via our participation portal .
Dad time: "Scrap metal robots, cardboard cows & co - upcycling artists big and small"
Young and old upcycling artists work with their dads (or other family men) to make crazy vehicles, funny animals, masks and original things from things that would otherwise end up in the bin and are guaranteed to be available at home.
Please bring along: clean and rinsed food cans, milk cartons, wrapping paper, plastic bottles, egg cartons, fruit nets, cardboard boxes, aluminum foil, etc. There are no limits to your imagination.
If you have a hot glue gun and spare glue sticks, please bring them with you. Upcycling involves transforming waste products or seemingly useless materials into new products or art objects.
Of course, the children are allowed to take the scrap robots with them to the exhibition in their room. The offers are free of charge, there is space for ten fathers and their children at each Dad Time.
The event is aimed at children aged 4 to 8 years, registration is now possible via our participation portal.
Reading in the city library on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust and National Socialism
80 years ago, on January 27, 1945, the last survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp were liberated. The victims of National Socialism have been commemorated on this day since 1996 and those of the Holocaust in particular since 2005. To mark these days of remembrance, the young Hilden author Sophie Kappen will be reading from her novel "Red Snow".
The book is set in 1935, when the young Wilhelmine has to decide whether to take revenge for the murder of her family by the Nazis or give up and resign herself.
"Sophie Kappen's book immediately transports you back to life in 1935. At first, everything is still normal, people just get on with their lives and aren't particularly interested in what the politicians are up to. But then everything changes and you are right in the middle of the fight for justice. I was particularly surprised by the ending. Even if it was the only possible ending," says librarian Stefanie Gundelach about Kappen's story.
Sophie Kappen was born in Hilden and was already very interested in German history and the resistance against totalitarian regimes at school. With her work, she wants to draw attention to the values that are unfortunately too often lost in modern societies.
Admission to the reading is free, registration is not necessary.