First October participant

Welcome new Sister Library participant: Penza Regional Library for Children and Young Adults

We want to learn the experience of other libraries from different countries, to find interesting ideas and methods of working with our readers. And of course we are ready to show you the activities of our library. Together we could help children and young adults find educational and entertaining foreign books, needed information and even new friends. Also we could organize and hold library events on different topics (nature, culture, history and etc.) with famous people of our cities. We could virtual travel through the cities and regions of each other.

Nadeshda from Penza writes about her library:

The Penza regional library for children and young adults is a modern center of reading, information, creativity and entertainment for children and teenagers. The Penza regional library for children and young adults was founded in 2005 by the merger of the regional children’s library (1956) and the regional youth library (1977).

Being the heiress and the guardian of their best traditions, our library develops new forms and methods of the work, integrates it into the General cultural context in the form of innovative projects.

The universal librarian fund consists of more than 193 thousand books, 6000 CD’s and audio-visual materials, 3 thousand electronic publications, 396 names of periodicals. Each year the fund is replenished on the average 3 thousand new receipts.

The library serves more than 33 thousand users. They are given over 974000 documents.

Every year the library organizes more than 470 books and illustrations, art and decorative art exhibitions. It organizes and holds about 750 mass events on different topics. There are 4 clubs in the library: family club «Alive spring», musical club «Accord», club of the studying regional history «Spark», club of the decorated art «Work for hands – joy for heart». The library is fully computerized and connected to the Internet.

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Autumn is here, so are new participants

During August and September two new libraries registrated to Sister Libraries programme.
Mill Park Library from Victoria, Australia would like to

share resources, exchange information and ideas, develop partnerships, learn what programs that are running in other countries and to enrich our library’s cultural experience.

Penza Regional library for children and young adults,  from Russia is looking for

learning from the experience of other libraries from different countries, to find interesting ideas and methods of working with our readers. And of course we are ready to show you the activities of our library. Together we could help children and young adults find educational and entertaining foreign books, needed information and even new friends. Also we could organize and hold library events on different topics (nature, culture, history and etc.) with famous people of our cities. We could virtual travel through the cities and regions of each other.

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Welcome along St.Petersburg, Russia and Ferrara, Italy

New participants in Sister Libraries programme!

Central library named after L. Sobolev, St. Petersburg Russia is looking forward

exchanging experience in attracting children and young adults to the library.

We greet also Biblioteca Comunale Giorgio Bassani in Ferrara, Italy.

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Travelling around the world with new participants

Browse your map to find the location of latest participants to Sister Libraries programme and see why they want to be part of the program.

Kopavagur, Iceland:

We are always looking to broaden our horizons and wish to learn new things and new approaches to working with children in the modern library.

Shaler North Hills, Pennsylvania US:

Some of our students have not had the opportunity to leave our county. We would love to provide an opportunity that will allow technology to bring students together. Due to the nature of adolescence, teens tend to find interest in subjects that have a personal relevance to them. Getting to know others in a distant nation would afford them a connection, making the study of current world events more meaningful and more worthy of attention. We would like to implement this program with rising and current seventh and eighth graders, ages 12-14.

 

 

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We have a new pair! Cameroon & France

Fresh pairing in Sister Libraries program: Le CLAC – Centre de lecture et d’animation culturelle de Yaoundé in Cameroon and Le Petit Bibliotheque Ronde from France. Congratulations!  We are eager to hear later about the results Francophone co-operation.

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Welcome the newest member of IFLA Sister Libraries programme

Are you registered on Sister Libraries programme and still “single”? Check again the list of participants. There are many new public and school libraries as well as other organizations ready to establish a partnership!

We will start presenting the new participants here to help them (and all of you) find a suitable library partner. Freshest member is Lutino Adunu from Uganda:

Lutino Adunu is a Community Based Organization registered with Nwoya District Local Government in Uganda. The organization was established to promote education for children in post-conflict northern Uganda. Lutino Adunu envision a transformed society where children’s educational rights is held in high esteem. The mission of the organization is to promote educational learning and support through community library, sponsorship and establishment of a school for re-building the lives of children in the post-war northern Uganda.

For more information, please visit www.lutino.org

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