page_title: Ljungby library
section_title: Köpingsgården, the old clog factory
hierarchical_section_title: Ljungby library / History / Köpingsgården, the old clog factory
caption_attribution_description: Svenska: Översiktsbild av Ljungby Stadsbibliotek 1937, då beläget i Köpingsgården. English: Floor plan of Ljungby Public Library 1937, then located in Köpingsgården.
context_page_description: Ljungby library, is a library in Ljungby, Sweden, that opened in 1982. It was designed by architect Jan Wallinder and have an interior designed by Rolf and Margareta Åberg. It is visited daily by between 500 and 800 patrons and is 3,030 square metres large. The library also contain an attached gallery, which also works as a lecture hall, and a small café.
context_section_description: In 1928 the library moved to the old clog factory Köpingsgården on Skånegatan street, which they had already bought in 1925 for 40,000 kronor. With the move the library acquired an additional two rooms and now had 48 square metres (520 sq ft) of space. Librarian there was John Howding, which in 1925 had succeeded Ernst Malmertz. Howding managed to quadruple the library's governmental grant by formally becoming a library director and acquire a collection of reference books. But the Skolöverstyrelse still forced Howding and library assistant Karl Loby to attend a two-week library course in Stockholm. In 1936 the library expanded to 85 square metres (910 sq ft), after several years of complaints from the Skolöverstyrelse about the all to small rooms. In the trade paper Biblioteksbladet Howding said:
  "[...]Since Ljungby is our country's second youngest city, and also one of the smaller ones, with only circa 5000 inhabitants, no one dared expect that the city already would appear among them who during last year acquired stately new buildings with modernly furnished libraries... It is the hope of the library board that these facilities, although small and simple, would be a calm refuge for those of the city's inhabitants for whom useful knowledge and pleasant amusement is the sought-after goal." - John Howding
  In 1937 Howding managed at last to fulfill the merge, that had partially failed fifteen years earlier, with the remaining libraries in Ljungby. They acquired additional 550 to 600 bands – which can be compared to the 184 newly sourced books their then budget allowed. In 1941 the library reached a peak of 11,800 loaned books and 900 borrowers, with a population of about 5,300 inhabitants. In 1957 Ljungby's first qualified librarian was hired.
caption: Overview of the library at Köpingsgården in 1937.
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