Registration and Library Card

You can register online at the Frankfurt Public Library and borrow books immediately.
Register online
External Link 
Please note: When you register, your data will be checked.

• For Frankfurt residents, this usually happens within a few minutes and you can borrow immediately.
• As your details are automatically checked against the register of the Frankfurt Citizens' Office, it is important that you fill in the form correctly.  
• In the case of library cards for Frankfurt-Pass holders and underage children and young people, the process of additionally viewing the attached documents usually takes 1 working day.

You can now renew your library card online.

Renew onlineExternal Link

• This service is currently available for standard users.
• Holders of the Frankfurt-Pass, the Ehrenamtscard, institution, partner or cooperation cards, refugees and asylum seekers can renew their library card directly in our libraries.
• Readers who have to pay the annual fee for the first time after reaching the age of 18 should renew their library card in our libraries.

€ 20 library card for adults

Annual fee for adult borrowing.

• Please bring along to the registration: Your valid identity card or passport with a certificate of registration (proof of residence).

€ 10 partner card

If your partner already has a card, you can get a partner card. The prerequisite is a shared address.

• Please bring along to the registration: Your valid identity card or passport with a certificate of registration (proof of residence).

€ 0 Library card for children and young people

Children and young people up to the age of 18.

• Please bring along to the registration: Children and young people up to the age of 16 need the consent form and signature of a legal representative on the registration form. If you are unable to accompany your child to registration, please give him/her the signed registration form and a copy of your identity card for documentation purposes.
• Young people over the age of 16: Your valid identity card or passport with a certificate of registration (proof of residence).

€ 0 Institutional card for educators

Employees of cultural, social and educational institutions can obtain a personal institution card and borrow media free of charge that they use in the course of their work.

• Please bring with you: Your valid identity card or passport with a certificate of registration (proof of residence). The completed registration form (see below) with the stamp of the institution where you work / a certificate from your employer.

 € 0  Internet card

Allows you to use the internet in the library. No borrowing of media.

• Please bring along to the registration: Your valid identity card or passport with a certificate of registration (proof of residence).

€ 0 other groups of persons

• Frankfurt-Pass holders, Hessian Volunteer Card holders (“Hessische Ehrenamtscard”), youth leaders, etc. 
  Please bring with you to the registration: Your valid identity card or passport with a certificate of registration (proof of residence), as well as the Frankfurt-Pass/ an identity card or document confirming your voluntary work.

• Refugees and asylum seekers
  Please bring with you: Residence permit, confirmation of your tolerated status (“Duldung”) or application for residence permit (= transcript of an asylum application) in connection with a certificate of registration (proof of residence).

• Cooperation card:
  For users of the municipal libraries of Offenbach or Neu-Isenburg with a valid library card. If you have a valid library card from Frankfurt Public Library, you will also be issued a free card at the partner libraries. The validity of the cooperation card is linked to the validity of the main card.
  Please bring with you to the registration: The receipt for the paid annual fee to your main card.