New library! : Purchena Public Library (Spain)

We are very happy to announce that we have a new library in the programme, the 40th Spanish library to join NAPLE Sister Libraries. Purchena Public Library (Spain) is a small but very active library in Southern Spain. They have a lot of experience in European programmes like Grundtvig and Erasmus+, having participated in the...

Lessons learned: the “Work in Libraries” innitiative II/II

We all know that "sistership" is the term currently used to describe the special relationships established between two communities. We also know that relations between brothers take very different forms and here it is a sample of it, our history of fraternal and interlibrary love that crosses borders, allowing the exchange of experiences that allow...

New library! : Quintanilla de Babia Rural Library (Spain)

We are very happy to announce that we have a new library in the programme, the 39th Spanish library to join NAPLE Sister Libraries. Quintanilla de Babia Rural Library (Spain) is a one-person library in a small village of less than 200 inhabitants. Their activities are developed with a special attention to children and young...

The importance of the librarians: the “Work in Libraries” innitiative I/II

A few weeks ago we published a post about the activity "Work in Libraries", designed by  4 Sister Libraries to celebrate the International Book Day. The goal was to give visibility to the work of the librarians. Maja Lesinger, one of trhe librarians involved, send us this beautiful text in which she reflects on the...

Work in Libraries: a cooperative activity to celebrate International Book Day 2019

Four libraries in the program have joined together to develop an activity to celebrate the International Book Day 2019. These libraries are: Castropol Municipal library (Spain) and its Sister Prelog Municipal Library (Croatia) and  Vodice Public Library (Croatia) and its Sister Vega-La Camocha Municipal Library (Spain): two pairs of sisterships from two different countries gathered in...

“Let me tell you”, an award-winning inclusion activity at Huesca Municipal Libraries (Spain)

The public libraries garantee the universal access to information and culture. For doing so, they must take into account the diversity, work closely with the different collectives that conform the social fabric and therefore the community. The program "Let me tell you" was born with the idea to include the non users of the libraries...

New library! : Mungia Public Library (Spain)

We are very happy to announce that we have a new library in the programme, the 38th    Spanish library to join NAPLE Sister Libraries. Mungia Public Library (Spain) is a library situated in the region of Basque Country in the north of Spain.They are very interested in  participating in an Erasmus+ project with other libraries...

Sister Libraries go to Brussels: Castropol Municipal library (Spain) invited by the EU Parliament

Last 16th December 2018, Municipal Public Library "Menéndez Pelayo" from Castropol went to Europe for the first time, in a 4 days visit, accompanied by representatives of the cultural and social institutions that cooperate in different projects with the library. They were invited through the office of Jonás Fernández, Member of Parliament from Asturias region,...

“Harry Potter”Reading Challenge at Vega-La Camocha Public Library (Spain)

The “Harry Potter” Reading Challenge is a cooperative and participative game based on a system of points, badges and classifications. Its main objective is to stimulate interest in reading in its broadest sense through an amusing experience that’ll awake the voluntary desire to read, removing this activity from any imposition or duty. It’s an activity...

Activities in cooperation: Viana Public library (Spain) and the Permanent Point of Interest

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...