We want to help create successful libraries ...

A modern knowledge and media service provider, promoter of literacy and imagination for young and old, partner to the regional educational landscape, supplier of digital quality services, a forum for cultures and generations - this is our vision for the role of the library in the 21st Century. Gratifying that we can be of assistance along the way!

Our mission: We want to help create successful libraries. With this aim in mind, we offer pioneering system solutions. Naturally all from one reliable source. Our top-quality products and services help lighten the workload, leaving you free to concentrate on the really important things. Such as providing sound, competent advice to clients and offering a comprehensive library user service and ensuring the most economically efficient deployment of your library budget.

Our way: We work in cooperation with libraries. Libraries offer access to knowledge and imagination - not just for a few, but for everyone. They provide a resource for entertainment, relaxation, improvement of life skills, exchange and learning, they create the conditions needed to encourage innovation, they help develop ideas and creativity. Libraries overcome barriers, they help bridge the knowledge gap, link the traditional with the contemporary, and provide common ground for cultures and generations. We are pleased to help you achieve these aims. Working together with you, we can develop individual, seamless concepts and practically-oriented solutions which are pioneering in both function and design.

Our strength: We stay abreast of changing trends. The modern multicultural society is reflected in its libraries, and international orientation is on the increase. Community members want up-to-date media. Around the clock. Digital information will continue to gain in importance. Libraries are a living marketplace of possibilities - with a broad range of media information and opportunities for self improvement. Despite ever more restricted resources, they continue to grow and change direction. In close and continuous contact with libraries, we have developed a nose for upcoming trends, taking up ideas and turning them into systems that work in practice. And we ourselves have become a force for spearheading new techniques and new ideas for products and services.

Our services: We are a sound, reliable partner to libraries. This is clearly evident not only in our support through training, staging cooperative events, and providing media evaluation and classification services, but also through the work of our customer consultants and specialists either on site, at our headquarters in Reutlingen or on the phone. A qualified staff of over 230 including architects, librarians, book binders, booksellers, designers, IT specialists, commercial administrators and organization experts work day in, day out to ensure the success of libraries everywhere. We are supported in our work by over 7,000 suppliers from countries around the globe - all benefiting you and your library!

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