Digital offers
With the library card, anyone can use the digital media offer 7 days a week, anytime and anywhere: over 12,000 German-language eBooks, electronic catalogs, newspaper and magazine archives as well as film classics, children's audio books and educational games.
Onleihe of the Aachen region
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Not only physical media can be borrowed from Aachen City Library, but also electronic media via the Onleihe Region Aachen service.
With a user ID and password, you can access around 12,000 German-language eBooks, including novels for all literary tastes, biographies, essays, crime novels, poetry, fairy tales and non-fiction books on culture, nature, history, religion, health, work and much more.
For those who prefer listening to reading, the Onleihe Region Aachen offers a wide range of different eAudios. There are numerous cooking courses, travel reports and guidebooks. The stock of fiction audio books and radio plays is also extensive. In addition, six national daily newspapers and weekly magazines can be borrowed from the Onleihe Region Aachen.
In order not to lose track of this extensive offer, there is an eCircle on the first floor of the Central Library, with which the entire stock of the Onleihe Region Aachen can be viewed.
Further information about the Onleihe (PDF)
More digital offers
Digital library (DigiBib)
Since 2011, the Digital Library (DigiBib) has offered standardized access to the library's information services via a single user interface.
Access is possible both in the library and from home. Free databases can be used as a guest without registration, but a valid library user card is required to use the full range of databases and services.
The content of the digital library reflects the library's entire range of electronic catalogs, reference tools and databases, including the Munzinger Archive and Nexis. The Munzinger archive contains information on people and countries of the world and provides access to various other encyclopaedias.
Nexis enables differentiated, international newspaper and journal research as well as access to business databases.
The Digibib search mask enables simultaneous searches for books, journals, articles and electronic full texts in a variety of sources. In addition to the online catalog of the city library, the catalogs of other Aachen libraries as well as German and international library catalogs can be searched. Free and licensed, general and subject-specific literature and full-text databases are also integrated, including the databases of the Munzinger Archive and the Brockhaus Encyclopaedia. The selection of sources can be customized. Literature can be obtained from other libraries via interlibrary loan for a small fee.filmfriend
filmfriendoffers an attractive program with German films, European films andArthouse-titles, classic films, short films, series and documentaries. The offer is aimed at adults as well as children and young people. You can register with a valid library card from Aachen City Library using the usual registration details.
tigerbooks
tigerbooks ist eine interaktive Kindebuch-App mit mehr als 6.000 Büchern, eBooks und Hörbüchern für Kinder im Alter zwischen 2 und 12 Jahren.
Kinder können die Geschichten der beliebtesten Kiderbuch-Helden wie Conni, die Olchis, Yakari und viele mehr auf Smartphone und Tablet lesen oder vorgelesen bekommen. Zudem bietet Tigerbooks Memo- und Lernspiele sowie Puzzle- und Malbuchfunktionen.
You can log in with a valid library card from Aachen City Library using the usual login details.School and Abitur aids online
In addition to our school and Abitur aids, which can be borrowed in book form, the city library also offers online access to the "Duden - Basiswissen Schule" series.
If you want to look up, deepen or repeat subject matter, you can search for information around the clock and even save individual pages as a pdf file. All you need is a valid user ID.A list of all available titles appears under"DUDEN - Basiswissen Schule". To gain full access to this page, it is necessary to register by clicking on "Login" at the bottom of the website. When logging in, first select the Aachen City Library and then enter the user number on the user card and the personal password.