20-24 septembrie 2009 - Biblioteca Metropolitana Bucuresti

Traditional and modern in partnerships and projects practices 419The signing of the next partnership opened the way to a project namedRural schools at “Octavian Goga” Cluj County Library, developed incooperation with The Zoology Museum and The Botanical Garden fromCluj-Napoca, which focused on involving students from the rural areas inthe activities organised by The Children’s Department and its partners.A year after the implementation of these projects, the results haveshown that the Children’s Department received more than 150 group visitsand organised 22 cultural activities, which brought together over 5,000students and teachers.Other activities for children were The “Traian Brad” Literary Club,organised for the first time in October 2002, and in The Origami Club,where over 30 children eager to learn the secrets of this Japanese art meet.The objective of the literary club was to help children discover the literaryworld, guided by local well-known writers.During 2003-2006 were developed projects like Once upon a time infairytales world (role reading classes) and With the backpack around theworld, project based on geographic, zoological and botanical themes.Each year, during summer and winter holidays, The Children’sDepartment organises programmes to attract children to the library,offering them movie watching, group readings – with or without a theme,introduction to computer use, drawings and collages, ad-hoc sketches,games.For the children involved, these activities are meant to increase theinterest in books and reading.That is the reason why one of the most effective methods of attractingchildren to the library and reading proved to be the organising of groupvisits as part of the direct cooperation with schools and the permanentdiversification of the project activities.To the existing projects, four more have been added in 2006: Let’s readin foreign languages!, Let’s learn history together!, Let’s be friends!, Littleactors.The project Let’s read in foreign languages was directed to primaryschool children and the activities included in the project were meant toencourage young students to study English and French.The project’s goal was to present to the children the library’s English andFrench printed and audio-visual collection. A series of bilingual books wereused for this project, from collections like: The Owl, The Bilingual Library,Tarantula Books, Ladybird, Two of a Kind, Livre de Poche, CollectionFarandole, Rouge et Or Dauphine, encyclopaedias like BlackwellsLearning Library, Childcraft, Children’s Britannica, Casterman, Larousse,dictionaries, foreign language courses and games.