JELGAVA City Library
Jelgava
City Library is a municipal cultural, educational and informational
institution, also, the largest public library in Zemgale (Southern Latvia) with
3 branch libraries. The library creates and maintains Union Catalogue of Jelgava
City and County municipal and school libraries, Jelgava Local History database,
Jelgava Outstanding Persons database, etc. Jelgava Scientific Library is a
consultative and methodological centre for 28 Jelgava County and Ozolnieki
County municipal libraries, regional training centre with computerized
premises, and interlibrary loans centre of Zemgale region.
Jelgava City Library home page: www.jelgavasbiblioteka.lv
Total
cost of the project 585 262.94 euro, to
Jelgava City Library – 263 449.92 euro, including European Regional Development
Fund financing (ERDF) 223 932.43 euro (85%).
Liepaja Central Scientific Library
Liepaja
Central Scientific Library (LCSL) is a public library of Liepaja City. It has 5
branches and one of these branches is a library for children. LSL also works as
the consultative and methodological development centre for 37 and 2 external
customer service centres of public libraries from neighbouring municipalities.
In
LCSL the Regional Training Centre (RTC) were established with one stationary
computer class. Moreover to ensure better accessibility of library education
services, one mobile computer class have been created to serve for the
customers of neighbouring municipalities. RTC implements different education
programmes and other capacity building initiatives for employees of LCSL and
other public libraries of neighbouring municipalities within Kurzeme region,
employees of museums and local education institutions, pupils of local schools
and other visitors of LSL.
Liepaja
Central Scientific Library home page: www.liepajasczb.lv
Total
cost of the project 585 262.94 euro, to
Liepaja Central Scientific Library– 99 169.34 euro, including European
Regional Development Fund financing (ERDF) 84 293.93 euro (85%).
Siauliai City Municipality public library
Siauliai
City Municipality Public library is a cultural, educational and informational
institution available to every user. It organizes citizens‘ reading and
information services.
Aims
and goals of the library:
- ensure quick and wide access to information;
- implement new technologies and to better supply users and staff with computerized workstations;
- give an opportunity to freely access internet, electronic catalogues and databases;
- render special services to purpose user groups;
- organize book, author, reading and other cultural events, preserve local lore and cultural heritage;
- raise qualification of the library staff;
- cooperate with cultural and educational institutions of the city and country.
Library
staff consists of 59 library workers, 44 of whom are professional librarians.
The library accumulates a universal stock taking into consideration
municipality‘s historical traditions, economical and cultural development,
demographic situation and users‘ needs, paying special attention to classical
literature and informational publications.
The
library is a member of the Association of Lithuanian Municipality Public
Libraries. It is also a member of the Lithuanian Integral Libraries Information
System (LIBIS).
The
library serves 10928 readers. Anually over 196 524 users frequent the library.
The stock of 214 528 items is at their service to fulfill information and
cultural needs. Subsribes to 41 titles of periodical publications.
The library is equipped with 117 computerized workstations, 64 of them are meant for users.
Siauliai City Municipality Public library home page: biblioteka.smsvb.lt/lt/
Total
cost of the project 585 262.94 euro, to Siauliai
City Municipality Public library – 222 643.68 euro, including European
Regional Development Fund financing (ERDF) 189 247.12 euro (85%).