The annual "Library of the Year" award will be presented today to the prison library of the Münster prison
Currently the prison library has about 10,000 titles, including 900 CDs and 2000 foreign-language books in some 30 languages.
Most popular among the prisoners were comics, legal literature, history books, dictionaries and love poems. The library has been around over 150 years.
The jury praised in its decision, among others, the high user rate of 80%.
Especially noteworthy was as well that internationally known authors held frequently reading in this library.
The award is the only national library price. Since 2000, the 30,000 award ($43,000) is given annually by the German Library Association and the "Die Zeit" Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius.
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