Although our library has participated as supporting partner in three European projects alongside local Primary School, Project Old Tortoise's Treasure Tales (OTTT) is our first standalone project financed by the EU under the Erasmus+ fund. Our partners from Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, Portugal, Greece and Italy are all kindergartens so we are the only library in... Continue Reading →
We are very happy to announce that we have a new library in the programme, the 10th Lithuanian library to join NAPLE Sister Libraries. Plunge District Municipal Public Library (Lithuania) is placed in a beautiful building, a reconstructed castle with a clock tower and adjacent greenhouse. They are a very active library, offering a wide... Continue Reading →
The Spanish Ministry of Culture in cooperation with Medialab Prado organized last month a Conference around the citizen labs in Public libraries. Medialab Prado is a cultural centre working on the city and urban life of Madrid. It's a citizen laboratory that works as a meeting point for the production of open cultural projects.... Continue Reading →
We are very happy to announce that we have a new library in the programme, the 10th Lithuanian library to join NAPLE Sister Libraries. Tauragė District Municipality “Birutė Baltrušaitytė” Public Library serves a population of around 2.000. They are looking for a Sister Library in a city around the same size, for experiencing “new cultures,... Continue Reading →
Viana Public library, from Spain, is one of our most active libraries in the NAPLE Sister Libraries program. They joined in January 2014. That very same year they had connected with 3 libraries from Poland, Croatia and Czechia. They are still cooperating up to this day! In Viana public library there is a Permanent Point... Continue Reading →
Like every year, we actively participated in the Code Week, which took place on October 6 - 21, 2018. We have offered our users activities that are relevant to programming. The youngest ones got to know the augmented reality technology and the coding bases in the Kodable application. As part of the campaign, robotics workshops... Continue Reading →
As part of the NAPLE Sister Libraries program -where the Public library "Viktor Car Emin" Opatija actively participates and has so far achieved successful cooperation with the Public libraries in Krakow and Galway- the Librarians have attended the first congress for public libraries in Galicia. (Xornada de bibliotecas Públicas de Galicia). The congress took place... Continue Reading →
Every 24th October since 1997 the Day of the Library is celebrated in Spain. It's an innitiative from the National Association of the Books for Children and Young Adults in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Sports. It seeks to give recognition to the public libraries and their work towards becoming a cultural meeting... Continue Reading →
We are very happy to announce a new sistership in the Program: Public Library Lúcio Craveiro da Silva (Portugal) is now connected with Ricardo León Municipal Library (Spain). They are the latest incorporations from their respective countries to the program. Surely this will be a very fruitful partnership. With this new sistership, NAPLE Sister Libraries has reached... Continue Reading →
