Gražina Lamanauskienė, national representative of the Sister Libraries program in Lithuania, has sent us a text about this activity designed for public libraries in the summer: June 15 – August 31, 2017 the action “The Challenge of Reading” takes place in Lithuania. This is a fun game, whose gist is to fulfill 10 reading assignments during... Continue Reading →
United Nation’s "World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development" is celebrated every 21th May, and was adopted by a resolution of the UN General Assembly, in 2002. In their own words”acceptance and recognition of cultural diversity – in particular through innovative use of media and Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) – are... Continue Reading →
We are very happy to announce that we have a new library in the programme, the 7th Lithuanian library to join NAPLE Sister Libraries. Kaunas Municipal Library Vincas Kudirka is a metropolitan library serving the second largest city in Lithuania, Kaunas, with a population of around 400.000. They are very active in social media, managing... Continue Reading →
We are very happy to announce that we have a new library in the programme, the 6th Lithuanian library to join NAPLE Sister Libraries. Biržai Municipality Public Library “Jurgis Bielinis” serves a population of around 15.000 in the North of Lithuania. In their own words, “the main objective of the library is to become... Continue Reading →
Saša Ambrožič, from Public library Ivan Tavčar Škofja Loka sent us a text and some pictures about their visit to Public library of Panevezys. These 2 libraries have been partners since December 2015: A visit to our sister library in Panevežys At the end of April 2017, three librarians from Slovenian Public library Ivan Tavčar Škofja Loka... Continue Reading →
We are very happy to announce a new sistership in the Program Vega-La Camocha Municipal Library (Spain) is now connected with Vodice Public Library, last Croatian library to join the program. We’ll inform through this blog about the specific activities they’ll design in the future With these new sistership, NAPLE Sister Libraries has reached 39 COUPLES... Continue Reading →
We are very happy to announce a new sistership in the Program: Public Library "Viktor Car Emin" (Croatia) is now connected with Galway Public Library (Ireland), who joined the program only last 17th April 2017. They have signed an agreement where they commit to “work closely in the coming years and agree to facilitate the professional... Continue Reading →
The Gijón Library Network, part of which is Sister Library Vega-La Camocha Municipal Library, celebrated this year's World Book Day with a series of activities taking place in their libraries the whole week. They have designed these activities with the association "30 days on the bike" and include: The speak Road safety bicycle education, a serious... Continue Reading →
Vega-La Camocha Municipal Library has sent us an interesting activity they want to share: "The activity has been designed in cooperation with the Secondary School Jacinto Benavente and is part of a wider project called Entrebiblios (Among Books). It serves as a complement that will enrich the formal education of the children. The initiative comes from... Continue Reading →
