The Evening of Wonders: celebrating the end of the summer at Iisalmi City Library (Finland)

It is quite common for cities in Finland to have a culture festival event to mark the end of the summer season. The most famous is “Taiteiden yö” in Helsinki but the city of Iisalmi also has a similar event called “Ihmeiden ilta” (the Evening of Wonders), arranged annually in the last Saturday of August....

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New library! Public Library Lúcio Craveiro da Silva (Portugal)

We are very happy to announce that we have a new library in the programme, the 8th   Portuguese library to join NAPLE Sister Libraries. Public Library Lúcio Craveiro da Silva is part of the Braga Libraries Network, what means that they are connected to 32 schools libraries in the country. They’re also interested in participating...

New library! Ricardo León Municipal Library (Spain)

We are very happy to announce that we have a new library in the programme, the 36th   Spanish library to join NAPLE Sister Libraries. Ricardo León Municipal Library is situated in Galapagar, a city of about 30.000 inhabitants in the Madrid region. In 2017 they won the National prize for Reading Animation, Maria Moliner awarded...

The Treasure of independent Poland, a city game at Municipal Public Library in Piekary Slaskie (Poland)

In connection with the approaching hundredth anniversary of regaining independence by Poland, we organized a city game for children. It was a great opportunity to remind and check the basic patriotic knowledge of our youngest readers. The children had a large amount of information about the events of 1918, in addition almost all teams that...

Generation of Campfires: Kaunas Municipal Library (Lithuania) participates in the Scout Jamboree

  Lithuanian Scout Jamboree “Generation of Campfires” took place this July in The Open-Air Museum of Lithuania. There were about 3300 participant from 23 different counties. This Jamboree was special, because in 2018 Lithuanian Scouts turn 100 years. Kaunas Municipal Vincas Kudirka Public Library had an honor to represent itself in this Jamboree by setting...

The Reading Wars, a game to promote reading at Vega-La Camocha Municipal Library (Spain)

At Vega-La Camocha Municipal Library a stellar war is taking place this summer to conquer the Biblio galaxy. We’ve created a reading challenge called “The Reading Wars” that immerse the youngest patrons in a role game imitating the progress of “Star Wars”. The kids coming to the library with their families can sign in and,...

Liburnia literary Camino, an activity from Public library “Viktor Car Emin“ Opatija (Croatia)

Public Library "Viktor Car Emin“ Opatija (Croatia) has recently established a partnership with Public Library from Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Both of the cities share their patron (St. James), so this library has decided to designed an ambitious program around the pilgrimage road. As part of the celebration of the City Day of Opatija, last 24th July, Public Library...

We’ve reached 100 libraries and we want to celebrate!

  We've recently reached 100 libraries at the program! our last incorporation is Public Library of Pittem, from Belgium. We've thought we should do something to celebrate it and came up with the idea of making a video with your opinions, comments, ideas about the program. A cooperative video that'll show the importance of cooperation in...

Interest Points at Prelog Municipal Library (Croatia) and Castropol Public Library (Spain)

Public Libraries from Castropol and Prelog engaged in a sistership last 20th March 2018. They soon held a meeting via Skype to decide on the activities they'd be developing together within the sistership. The first activity,  in order to know each other better, consisted on exchanging pictures of their towns. In the context of this...