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The pressing need to give a new meaning to the library and transform it in an information center and a place for social contacts and relax is the main long-term strategy for development of 'Pencho Slaveikov' Public Library Varna. We are looking for new opportunities for integration with similar public institutions.
Each participation in national and international programs and projects is intended for development of the library as a modern institution supporting people in contemporary world.
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A project for digitization of periodicals, postcards and photos related to Varna from the end of the 19th, early 20th century, which represents the bulgarian participation in EuropeanaLocal - a Best Practice Network project, funded under the eContentplus programme of the European Commission. Varna Digital Library project follows the EuropeanaLocal basic ideas on an access to local and regional content through the European Digital Library, since it presents the cultural and historical heritage of Varna town.
EuropeanaLocal develops over three years a Best Practice Network improving the interoperability of the digital content held by regional and local institutions and making it accessible through the Europeana service of the European Digital Library and to other services. There is a pressing need to involve Europe’s network of local and regional libraries, museums and archives in making available the enormous amount of digital content that they hold through Europeana. Such involvement brings together a rich diversity of content of all types, cultures and languages making it possible to establish integrated services and adding value for communities and individual users. EuropeanaLocal works with the EDL Foundation to establish efficient and sustainable processes through which local and regional institutions can easily make their content available to Europeana during and after the project, adopting and promoting the use of its infrastructures, tools and standards, OAI-PMH repositories and Europeana Metadata Application Profiles initially, but moving forward to semantic web technologies later.
EuropeanaLocal builds upon existing multiplier networks of local institutions to bring together a consortium that represents 27 countries with broad ranging experience of the cultural sector, digital libraries, standards and aggregation services. EuropeanaLocal will make available to Europeana more than 20 million items. The expected results include the establishment of a network of regional repositories that are highly interoperable with Europeana, an integrated Europeana-EDLocal prototype service and the development of thematic areas for Europeana services, which integrate content of both the national and the local/regional level.
The main objective of the Glob@l Libraries Programme is to provide all citizens with equitable access to up-to-date, effective and quality information and communication services in public libraries.
Senior citizens keep healthier and happier if acknowledged as an asset in regular community life. The Partnership wants to explore the methods of involving senior citizens in adult learning in order to develop local strategies based on exchange of previous experiences and new ideas. The Partnership aims at increasing quality of life to people entering into a new phase in life by offering participation in learning processes and/or as volunteers engaged in other peoples’ learning processes. It also targets finding methods to transfer knowledge between age groups as part of learning processes as well as general approaches on how to understand the conditions of senior life in order to offer appropriate services.
A collaborative project between BARS Agency and the Regional History Dept. of the 'Pencho Slaveikov' Public Library, aiming to present the public development of the city through the most authentic documents – photos, and to save this development for the upcoming generations.
The 'Marathon of the Reading People' was established in 2003 on occasion of the 120th anniversary of the library. Its aims is to bring together the people from different professions and positions at one and the same day at different parts of the city for readning parts of their favorite books. The participants are children and teenagers, teachers, publishers and many, many others. The event became annual and related with the International Book Day – April 23rd.
In 2006 the library’s initiative spread throughout the country. The 'Marathon of the Reading People' was held under the patronage of Mrs. Zorka Parvanova. A lot of Bulgarian towns and villages took part in the initiative which became into National at the same year.
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