Library Buildings around the World

generations. The library collection covers over 100.000 items. However, it’s not just a place for housing books but a multi-purpose
learning centre offering: computer literacy, reading culture, homeland material, lifelong learning and official library events.
On entering the library, there is the central circulation desk with a self-service book borrowing machine. The entrance area has
selected books on the walls, a literature collection and an AV-collection in the adult section. The service has been upgraded by the
RFID technology. Books and non-book material for children are located on the ground floor. This is also the area for the so called
Mini Bologna – a permanent exhibition of youth books in foreign languages. The collection consists of 505 rich illustrated youth
books from 44 countries. The books inform children about foreign cultures, and languages and provide scripts in the original form
as well. In the upper floor there is the adult section, reference and homeland collections, self-study points and e-library. The
department of professional books houses a permanent collection of the local recognized Slovenian language expert, academic Jože
Toporišič, PhD. The library visitors meet in a multi-purpose hall named after Savica Zorko, the library’s first manager.
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