Mobile Libraries Without Boundaries
Putujuće knjižnice bez granica
Project Activities
End of the Project
December 14, 2022
The Erasmus+ project "Mobile Libraries without Bounderies" has reached its end - its official end was 14.12.2022. Due to the pandemic, the one-year duration of the project "turned" into two, but the project participants did not lack determination to achieve all the set goals, as it was planned. With the great help and support of excellent Catalan partners - great mobility hosts, the project was successfully brought to an end. Special thanks goes to the libraries in Virovitica and Koprivnica, and also to our volunteers Vlasta and Marija, who are responsible for the logo and website of the project. Last but not least, the Agency for Mobility and Programs of the European Union certainly deserves special thanks for always reliable and fast help and support in all moments of project implementation. The project banner is now going to the archive, but the new collegial friendships and memories of all the experiences during the project will remain forever, and the acquired knowledge and experience will be applied in new services for ibrary users in the area of the Bilogora Podravina and Kalnički prigorje Librarians' Association. We hope for further cooperation with new friends in Spain!
Thank you all for your support! Moltes gràcias! Muchas gracias!
Biblioteques. Generalitat de Catalunya
Biblioteques Lleida
Xarxa de Biblioteques Municipals de la Diputació de Barcelona
"Fran Galović" Public Library Koprivnica
Virovitica Public Library
Library Assocciation of Bilogora, Podravina and Kalničko prigorje
AMPEU
18th international expert meeting Libraries - the center of knowledge and entertainment, Karlovac, 20 October 2023.
October 20, 2023
On the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the acquisition of the first bibliobus in Karlovac, mobile libraries were chosen as the theme of the professional meeting Library - the center of knowledge and entertainment, which has been jointly organized by the Karlovac City Library "Ivan Goran Kovačić" and the Library of Miran Jarca Novo Mesto in Slovenia for 18 years, as important components of library networks in Croatia and Slovenia. On this occasion, a mini bibliobus festival was organized where all interested citizens could visit and view the new bibliobuses from Karlovac, Novi Mesto, Ljubljana and Krško.
During the meeting, the results of projects of Croatian libraries that were awarded non-reimbursable financial resources of the European Social Fund through the call "Reading to an inclusive society" (2021-2023) were presented, as part of the Operational Program "Effective Human Resources", within the framework of which in 2023, the new bibliobus from Karlovac, as well as two bibliobuses in the libraries in the area of the Library Association of Bilogora, Podravina and Kalničko Prigorje - Bjelovar and Virovitica.
The program was attended by eight invited lecturers from Croatia and Slovenia who, through professional lectures, offered answers to questions related to the development of mobile library services that enable unique access to culture and heritage through easier access to books and cultural content to residents of less populated areas. Lecturers from the Library Association of Bilogora, Podravina and Kalničko Prigorje also stood out with notable presentations: Robert Fritz and Silvija Perić presented the "Blow the Horn for a Book" project, which procured a bibliobus and formed a new Bibliobus service in Virovitica. Ljiljana Vugrinec spoke about libraries and bibliobuses in Catalonia (Spain), based on experiences from the Erasmus+ project "Mobile Libraries without Boundaries", which in 2020-2022 carried out by the Society of Librarians of Bilogora, Podravina and Kalničko Prigorje.
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The second international presentation of the Project at the 19th International Conference of the Society of Librarians of Serbia in Belgrade, Serbia
December 14-16, 2022
Silvija Perić and Ljiljana Vugrinec, as members of the project team KA1 Erasmus+ project "Mobile Libraries without Bounderies", in the last days of this project, participated on the 14th-16th. December 2022 at the 19th international conference of the Library Association of Serbia in Belgrade, where they presented examples of good practice in the work of Catalan libraries and bibliobuses seen during mobility in Spain. They also used the opportunity to share their rich experience in the organization and operation of mobile libraries in Croatia to their colleagues from Serbia and other countries.
In accordance with the activities utlined as part of project dissemination, information on the organization and way of working of Catalan libraries and bibliobuses was transferred to librarians at several professional gatherings in Croatia - for example, at the Assembly of the Croatian Library Association, as well as in the wider region - at the Festival of Slovenian Traveling Libraries held in May in Murska Sobota in Slovenia and now, at the end of the project, in Serbia. The project participants now have the task of creating a final report, and then applying the knowledge and skills they have learned in working with users in libraries and bibliobuses in Croatia.
Lecture on the Project in the Croatian National and University Library
November 29, 2022
The participants of the project, Silvija Perić and Ljiljana Vugrinec, on November 29, 2022, at the session of the Expert Council of the County Registry Development Services in the National and University Library in Zagreb, held a lecture for the heads of county development services from all over Croatia. The title of lecture was "Erasmus+ study stay in libraries and bibliobuses in Spain: mobility in the Erasmus+ project Mobile Libraries without Bounderies". The Project ends on December 14, 2022, and this was an opportunity to present this interesting project to fellow librarians, as well as to encourage them to join the Erasmus+ community.
Presentation on the project for the Croatian library community - 47th Assembly of the Croatian
Library Association in Zadar
October 5-8, 2022
Ljiljana Vugrinec and Silvija Perić presented the Project at the 47th Assembly of the Library of Congress held in Zadar, October 5-8, 2022, with presentation named "Traveling libraries as a bridge to remote users: an example of international cooperation of librarians through the Erasmus+ program".
Project activities at the Library Assocciation of Bilogora, Podravina and Kalničko prigorje
June 3, 2022
The annual Assembly of the Association of Librarians of Bilogora, Podravina and Kalničko Prigorje in Bjelovar, on June 3, 2023, was used by the project participants to give a detailed presentation to the assembled members of the Association about their interesting mobility experiences in Spain.
At the same time as the Assembly, as one of the activities within the project itself, a mini-bibliobus festival took place, in which the bibliobus from Bjelovar and Križevci took part with their crews. The mini-festival was organized with the aim of promoting mobile library services among citizens and encouraging reading in general. The bibliobuses from Bjelovar and Križevci were visited by dozens of people from Bjelovar who looked with interest at the interior of the travelling libraries, as well as their book collections, and from the members of the bibliobus crews they learned details about the way the travelling libraries work.
The gathering of librarians from three counties was also used as an opportunity to carry out another activity of the project activity - a humanitarian action to collect financial contributions to help Ukraine affected by the war. This activity, called the Humanitarian Book Fair "Librarians for Ukraine", was inspired by the book fair seen in Catalonia during the mobility - on the occasion of the Sant Jordi holiday, the Day of Books and Roses. For this occasion, libraries donated books by local authors for the fair and for charity sales, and librarians bought books with their voluntary contributions. HRK 400 was collected and paid to the Ukrainian-Croatian Friendship Association based in Lipik, which collects funds for the purchase of protective equipment, medical and other aid for Ukraine.
First international project presentation - Slovenia
May 13-14, 2022
The first international presentation of the Erasmus + project "Traveling Libraries without Borders" and mobility to Spain within the project was in Slovenia, on 13 and 14 May 2022, when the 21st International Meeting and Festival of Slovenian Traveling Libraries - Bibliobus was held in Murska Sobota. Silvija Perić and Ljiljana Vugrinec also took part in the professional part of the conference, along with a dozen other lecturers who spoke about examples of good practice from the work of bibliobuses - mobile libraries in Slovenia, Finland, Serbia and Croatia. The emphasis of their presentation was on the work of libraries and bibliobuses in Catalonia (Spain), where they paid a study visit from April 19 to April 28 2022.
Mobility in the Project implemented from 19 to 28 April 2022
April 28, 2022
Silvija Perić and Ljiljana Vugrinec, participants in the Mobile Libraries Without Boundaries Project spent ten days, from 19 to 28 April 2022, in Catalonia, the Autonomous Province of Spain - visiting libraries and bibliobuses in Barcelona and Lleida. Thus, they fully implemented the mobility envisaged and planned by the project, after mobility had to be postponed several times in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
During the mobility, organized by the hosts, the project participants visited 5 libraries in Barcelona, Vic and Lleida and 2 central institutions to support libraries in Barcelona and Lleida, and directly participated in their work with users at the stops. of which 3 in the District of Barcelona and 2 in Lleida. They also visited book fairs and other events "Sant Jordi in Barcelona" on the occasion of the Catalan national holiday, April 23, Book and Rose Day.
At the beginning and end of the project, bilateral meetings were held with representatives of the hosts: immediately upon arrival in Barcelona, a meeting was held with representatives of the host - project partners in the Library Administration of the Ministry of Culture of the Autonomous Province of Catalonia in Barcelona. received by the Delegate of the Government of Catalonia in Lleida.
The planned program of visits and activities was fully realized during the ten days of mobility and a number of interesting and useful information was collected on the organization and operation of Catalan libraries and libraries, which will be transferred to librarians in Croatia and beyond. is also for application in new services and activities with library users in libraries in the area where the Association of Librarians of Bilogora, Podravina and Kalničko prigorje operates.
Visit to the Delegation of Catalonia for South East Europe
February 15, 2022
Project participants Silvija Perić and Ljiljana Vugrinec attended a meeting in Zagreb with the representative of the Delegation of Catalonia for Southeast Europe Ana Hadžić. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss cooperation in the project. Possible future projects and cultural cooperation were also discussed at the meeting.
Project duration extended for another 12 months
November 15, 2021
Since it was not possible to carry out the mobility in 2021 due to the pandemic, an extension of the project for another 12 months was requested and approved. The project will now last until 14.12.2022.
Umag - 13th National Conference on Public Libraries
October 20 - 22, 2021
Silvija Perić and Ljiljana Vugrinec participated in person at the 13th Hybrid Conference on Public Libraries in the Croatia, held in Umag on October 20-22, 2021, where they presented the first Erasmus + project of the BPKP Librarians' Association. They gave a presentation titled "Erasmus +, an opportunity for international cooperation and support during the pandemic and despite the pandemic".
Project presentation at the 3rd Zagreb Library Association Round Table "Futur drugi"
September 17, 2021
Project participants Silvija Perić and Ljiljana Vugrinec held a presentation titled "Mobile Libraries without Boundaries - Erasmus + project of the Library Association of Bilogora, Podravina and Kalničko Prigorje" and participated in a panel discussion at a virtual international conference - 3rd round table "Futur drugi" organized by the Zagreb Library Association.
Presentation "Erasmus+, an opportunity for international cooperation and support during the pandemic and despite the pandemic" accepted for the national conference on public libraries
July 2021
The Program Committee of the 13th Conference on Public Libraries in the Republic of Croatia announced that the abstract for S. Perić and Lj. Vugrinec's presentation at the Conference, titled "Erasmus +, an opportunity for international cooperation and support during the pandemic and despite the pandemic". The conference will be held in Umag, October 20-22, 2021.
Informing the public about the project at the Virovitica Public Library
June 2021
In Virovitica, at the European Social Fund's press conference "Creating an Inclusive Society through Reading", Silvija Perić spoke about the importance of this project and its goals. The European Social Fund will enable the establishment of a new mobile library service in Virovitica.
Project presentation in Đurđevac - at the regional assembly of librarians - members of the Library Association of Bilogora, Podravina and Kalničko prigorje
June 11, 2021
At the annual Assembly of the Library Association of Bilogora, Podravina and Kalničko prigorje, held on June 11, 2021. in Đurđevac, Silvija Perić and Ljiljana Vugrinec held a presentation "Mobile Libraries without Boundaries - the first Erasmus + project of the Library Association of Bilogora, Podravina and Kalnik Prigorje" which informed all present members of the Association about the progress of activities in the project and future plans.
Participation of partners from Barcelona in the Croatian virtual conference on mobile libraries and presentation of the project "Mobile Libraries without Borders" to the international professional community
June 8 - 9, 2021
At the beginning of June, a two-day virtual round table on mobile libraries and a festival of Croatian bibliobuses, national meetings with international participants, were held. Invited by Croatian partners, for the first time, colleagues from Barcelona, partners in the project "Mobile Libraries without Boundaries", participated in the conference. They presented the work of Catalan mobile libraries during the coronavirus pandemic with an example of a bibliobus service from Barcelona - Bibliobus Tagament. Assumpta Molist and Rosa Poch, both from Barcelona, took part in the conference. At the same conference, as part of the presentation "International Cooperation of Mobile Librarians - Expanding Circles", Ljiljana Vugrinec informed the international community of mobile librarians about the Erasmus + project "Mobile Libraries without Borders" as well as its course, goals and expected results .
Sant Jordi and Book Night in Koprivnica
April 23, 2021
In April, the first activity for users related to the project "Mobile Libraries without Boundaries" took place in Koprivnica. The event was organized as part of Book Night on April 23, 2021, when the program "Magic (biblio) bus" took place in front of the Koprivnica Public Library. The program gathered about twenty participants on Zrinski Square around the bibliobus (in accordance with COVID-19 restrictions!). In addition to visiting the traveling library - bibliobus, which was open to all interested, the celebration of Book Night was used as an opportunity for the citizens of Koprivnica - visitors to the Koprivnica library on that day - to get acquainted with the feast of St. George (Sant Jordi) which is especially celebrated in Catalonia, an autonomous province in Spain. On this day, which is a national holiday in Catalonia, the Day of Books and Roses is celebrated. It is customary to give a book and a rose as gifts to people you love. As libraries with which librarians from Koprivnica cooperate in the Erasmus + project of the regional Librarians Association "Mobile Libraries without Boundaries" are from Catalonia, specifically the cities of Barcelona and Lleida, this beautiful tradition reached Koprivnica on the occasion of Book Night and all visitors to the Magical (bibliobus) were gifted a rose and a book by a local author of their choice. The librarians took the opportunity to inform visitors about the Erasmus + project "Mobile Libraries without Boundaries" and with the gift each visitor received a small leaflet with basic information about the project.
Project graphic design and promo materials
March 2021
At the beginning of 2021, in addition to launching the website, the logo and graphic design of the project were designed. Banners were printed, the project poster was created, and promotional materials were made: a ballpoint pen, a writing pad and a canvas bag with the name and logo of the project. In addition to the project participants, volunteers from the Koprivnica and Virovitica libraries, Vlasta Šolc and Marija Vugrinec, were involved in the development of the website and graphic design, as external collaborators on the project. The graphic preparation for the banner and the poster was done by the project participants.
February 2021
First virtual meeting of partners from Croatia and Spain in Erasmus+ „Mobile Libraries Without Boundaries“ project
Librarians from Croatia and Spain (Catalonia) met for the first time online on February 18, 2021, to get to know each other, exchange basic information about the libraries they come from and to agree on further cooperation in the Erasmus + project of the Mobile Libraries Without Boundaries project. An online meeting took place in a very cordial and friendly atmospher. Along with librarians from Croatia, in this first virtual meeting of partners, participated the representatives of libraries from Barcelona and Lleida and representatives of the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Catalonia
In the presentations, the Croatian side presented the goals of the project and plan of project activities. They also presented their regional Library Association as the Project Coordinator as well as the libraries from which the participants in the project come. The partners from Catalonia were especially interested in the part of the presentation about mobile libraries in Croatia, and their professional organization and activities, especially about Mobile Library Festivals that have been organized regularly in Croatia for more than 20 years. The Catalan partners presented the organization of the library system of public libraries in Catalonia and the important role that mobile libraries play in it. Three bibliobuses were presented in particular, between 12 of them from the regions of Lleida and Barcelona, which have well-organized and very modern mobile libraries and were therefore selected for the goal of mobility within the project.
Due to the current situation with the coronavirus pandemic, the planned mobility to Spain / Catalonia has already had to be postponed once, from autumn 2020 to spring 2021. Unfortunately, due to the uncertain situation with the pandemic, as well as with the implementation of vaccinations in both Croatia and Spain, it is still unknown when travel and to other countries will be normalized. Therefore, it was agreed that the mobility will be postponed once again for a few months and according to the current plan should take place in September 2021. In the meantime, virtual meetings between partners will continue, as well as some other Project activities. One of them is this website which has been created for the Project, to ensure visibility and disemination of informations within the Project. (Lj.V., 23.2.2021.)
