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November 4, 2014
Multicultural Library: Conferences in Olsztyn, Opole and Gdańsk

We would like to invite you to three regional conferences entitled 'Multicultural Library':

The conferences will provide an opportunity to sum up the 'Library as a Meeting Place for Many Cultures' project. Librarians from Norway and Poland as well as representatives of non-governmental organizations operating in the field of multiculturalism will take part in the conferences. The meetings will be accompanied by an interactive group game which will allow attendants to better acquaint themselves with the multicultural library model created as part of the project. We will also present useful practices for multicultural activities, valuable book publications to read and educational materials.

The conference materials will include the 'Multicultural Library' publication which will help to establish and maintain the activities leading to the integration of a diverse local community.

People working in libraries, those employed in institutions and organizations cooperating with libraries as well as those who would wish to begin such cooperation are all invited to the conferences.

Registration for the conferences is only available online at the following addresses:

 

3 September 2014
Polish-Norwegian mini-projects

The implementation of Polish-Norwegian actions under the project ‘Library as a meeting place for many cultures’ has started. Polish and Norwegian librarians have already established online cooperation, and in autumn they will have the opportunity to meet in person, get to know each other's institutions and take part in the planned joint events.

Polish librarians will visit their Norwegian partners on 15 to 17 September 2014 (this will include visits to Multilingual Library in Oslo, Buskerud County Library and Oppland County Library) and on 23 to 25 September 2014 (this will include visits to Multilingual Library in Oslo, Hordaland County Library and Bergen Public Library).

Norwegian librarians, in turn, will visit Poland on the following dates:

  • 1-3 October 2014 (Goldap County Partnership);
  • 7-9 October 2014 (Gorlice County Partnership);
  • 14-16 October 2014 (Opole County Partnership);
  • 27-29 October 2014 (Bartoszyce County Partnership);
  • 4-6 November 2014 (Olsztyn County Partnership).

 

6 June 2014
The June trainings

At the turn of May and June the workshops were held to end the series of training sessions for county partnerships, under the project "Library as a meeting place for many cultures". The librarians -along with the representatives of cultural minorities and local NGOs, who participated in the trainings, summed up the knowledge acquired and the actions implemented so far, and started their work on a three-year plan of multicultural actions.

During the trainings, in the second half of June, representatives of the regional libraries, county libraries (or the ones which perform such function) and cooperating minorities and non-governmental organizations will sum up the work under the project at the regional level:
16-17 June - training session in Gdańsk (Hotel Beethoven, ul. Beethovena 7);
25-26 June - training session in Olsztyn (Hotel Wileński, ul. Knosały 5);
25-26 June - training session in Opole (Hotel Mercure, ul. Krakowska 57/59).

 

9 May 2014
We have the results of Polish-Norwegian project competition!

23 libraries, included in five county partnerships, will begin their cooperation with the librarians from Norway.

Competition applications were evaluated by the committee composed of: Oddbjørn Hansen (Multilingual Library in Oslo), Urszula Lach ( Multilingual Library in Oslo ), Camilla Sørbye (Buskerud County Library), Elin Golten (Hordaland County Library), Silje Grøtan Torp (Oppland County Library), Karen Marie Loge (Bergen Public Library), Adriana Niedoszewska (FRSI), Magdalena Ramos-Smul (FRSI) i Bogna Włodarczyk (FRSI).

The winners of the competition are the libraries included in the following partnerships:
1. Gorlice county partnership (299/360 points);
2. Opole county partnership (291/360 points);
3. Olsztyn county partnership (264/360 points);
4. Bartoszyce county partnership (259/360 points);
5. Gołdap county partnership (257/360 points);

We would like to thank all the libraries participating in the competion for their applications and send congratulations to the winners!

 

10 April 2014
Polish-Norwegian project competition will last until 17 April!

The application deadline in "Library as a meeting place for many cultures” competition has been extended today. We are accepting application forms of county partnerships until 17 April 2014.

“Competition regulations" have been amended as follows:

  • section 5.1. reads as follows: “Call for Applications will begin on 20 March 2014 and will last until 17 April 2014.”;
  • section 5.6. reads as follows: “The Application must be sent  by 23:59 hrs on 17 April 2014  to the e-mail address of the project coordinator:  bogna.wlodarczyk@frsi.org.pl.”;
  • section 5.7. reads as follows: “Five County Partnerships will be selected in the competition, which along with the Norwegian Partners will carry out five small Polish-Norwegian projects. The results of the competition will be announced by 12 May 2014 on the website www.biblioteki.org/wielokulturowa_biblioteka. The notifications will be also sent by e-mail to the addresses provided in the Declarations.”

Download:
Competition regulations - updated on 10 April 2014

 
 

20 March 2014
Polish-Norwegian project competition

All the libraries participating in the project “Library as a Meeting Place For Many Cultures" are invited to take part in the competition for joint Polish-Norwegian actions!

The aim of the competition is to select five county partnerships, which - along with the Norwegian libraries (project partners) - will carry out small Polish-Norwegian projects. Each Polish-Norwegian project will involve carrying out one activity in Norway and one in Poland. The representatives of the competition winners will also participate in visits to Norwegian libraries and will host Norwegian librarians in Poland.

Norwegian partners of the project hope for the cooperation with Polish libraries:

“5000 of the inhabitants of our county are the immigrants from Poland. For the librarians in our county it would be useful to know more about libraries and society in Poland. What do the Poles expect from our libraries? What kind of services do they want, and what kind of services should be prioritized?"

“We learn from meeting people and libraries that have different experiences and other points of view than us. Sharing our experience will also make us reflect on how we work and what we do. We have so far in this project, experienced that questions from the Polish librarians have made us see ourselves and our multicultural projects in a new perspective.”

The deadline for submitting competition entries is 11 April 2014. The electronic applications should be e-mailed to: bogna.wlodarczyk@frsi.org.pl.

Download:
Competition regulations
Form template
Declaration template of the County Partnership Coordinator
Declaration template of the County Partnership Member
Declaration template of the Regional Public Library
Information on the Norwegian Partners

 

13 January 2014
Training courses for county partnership start

Next week the first training for county partnerships established by libraries for the purposes of participation in our project will be launched. From January to June 2014 36 training courses for librarians and representatives of cultural minorities will be organised in nine counties (Gorlice, Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Opole, Człuchów, Słupsk, Bartoszyce, Ełk, Gołdap and Olsztyn) .

Each county partnership will participate in a series of four training courses concerning the following subjects:
1. anti-discrimination workshop;
2. analysis and diagnosis of the environment from the perspective of the multiculturalism;
3. organisation and promotion of multicultural activities;
4. plan of multicultural activities in the library.

Download:
Training schedule 

 

4 December 2013
Warsaw in a very multicultural climate 

The first event for more than 60 participants of the project is over. On 28-29 November a meeting of representatives of voivodeship and county libraries (or performing their function), partners of the project from Norway as well as representatives of cultural minorities and non-governmental organizations was held in Warsaw. Two workshop days in a multicultural climate passed quickly in a creative and educational atmosphere and in good spirits what is confirmed by the results of the evaluation questionnaires (an average of 4.5 on a five-point scale).

The most interesting things always happen at the crossroads, also – at the crossroads of cultures. Our event was a unique opportunity to arrange the meeting of a Lemko woman with a Kashubian woman, Norwegian with Hungarian, Ukrainian, German and Roma languages, libraries with NGOs. This resulted in the first common plans and ideas for multicultural activities

Once again, we thank all the guests, participants, trainers for their participation in the meeting and for great involvement. The first training courses for county partnerships are to be launched in January. We hope that curiosity and appetite for multicultural activities will be even greater!

Download:
Agenda of the meeting  
Presentations:
Introduction to the project 
Model of the multicultural library 
Multilingual Library
County Library in Hordaland
County Library in Oppland
County Library in Buskerud
Public Library in Bergen

 

27 November 2013
A preliminary model of the multicultural library 

We are pleased to present a preliminary model of the multicultural library, which will be tested during the training and activities implemented within the framework of the project “Library as a meeting place for many cultures”. As a result, in the second half of 2014 a publication will be completed, presenting the final version of the model, containing also examples of good practices and scenarios of multicultural activities

The preliminary model was created by Dominika Cieślikowska and Maja Branka, and the frames of the model were consulted during the three-day meeting in June 2013 which was attended by librarians from Poland and Norway, representatives of NGOs acting in the area of multiculturalism and representatives of cultural minorities. The final version of the presented model is also a result of work of team members of the Information Society Development Foundation.

Download:
A preliminary model of the multicultural library 

 

22 November 2013
We are ending conferences and taking action! 

In November press conferences launching the project were held in three voivodeships: Pomorskie (13 November), Małopolskie (14 November) and Warmia-Mazury (22 November). The conferences were organised by the Voivodeship Public Libraries acting as regional coordinators of the project, in cooperation with the Information Society Development Foundation. The events were also attended by representatives of libraries taking part in the project as well as representatives of cultural minorities, NGOs acting for the benefit of cultural minorities and local authorities. 

Local media about the project:
TVP Kraków
Onet [Kraków]
Gazeta Wyborcza [Kraków]
TVP Olsztyn
Radio Olsztyn
Olsztyn24
Onet [Olsztyn]
Gazeta Wyborcza [Olsztyn]

 

31 October 2013
The first press conference behind us!

Librarians from two county partnerships (Opole and Kędzierzyn-Koźle), a representative of German minority and local journalists met at the press conference launching the project “Library as a meeting place for many cultures” in the Opole Voivodeship. 

On Friday, 25 October 2013 in the conference room of the Voivodeship Public Library in Opole, the first meeting of participants of the project entitled „Library as a meeting place for many cultures”, together with a press conference, was held. – Such is the nature of our region that the culture and customs mix here – said Tadeusz Chrobak, director of the Voivodeship Public Library.

During the meeting, apart from discussing the action plan and the objectives of the project by Piotr Polus from the Voivodeship Public Library in Opole and Joanna Wcisło from the Information Society Development Foundation, representatives of the county partnerships presented their vision of a multicultural library. The conference met with interest of the local media – journalists conducted interviews with participants of the project on the benefits which the participation of libraries in the project will bring to local societies.

Next press conferences soon– in November we will meet in Gdansk, Cracow and Olsztyn.

Opole media about the project:
TVP Opole [from 9:30]
Radio Opole
Nowa Trybuna Opolska

 

23 October 2013
Press conferences opening the project

In October and November four press conferences will open the project ‘Library as a Meeting Place for Many Cultures’ in individual regions:

  • on 25th of October at 11.00 am  – a conference in the Regional Library in Opole (Piastowska 20);
  • on 13th of November at 10.00 am – a conference in the Fahrenheit Hotel  in Gdańsk (Grodzka 19);
  • on 14th of November at 11.00 am – a conference in the Regional Library in Cracow (Rajska 12);
  • on 22nd of November at noon – a conference in the Regional Library in Olsztyn (1 Maja 5). 

 

10 October 2013
A call for proposals no. 5/BMSWK/2013

Information Society Development Foundation announces a call for proposals no. 5/BMSWK/2013 for hotel accommodation including breakfast in Oslo and Bergen.

Bid submission deadline: by 10.00 a.m. on 18.10.2013

To download:
Call for proposals

The persons authorised to contact the Bidders are:
Ms. Bogna Włodarczyk, e-mail: bogna.wlodarczyk@frsi.org.pl
Ms. Joanna Wcisło, e-mail: joanna.wcislo@frsi.org.pl
tel. +48 22 579 16 19 

 

20 August 2013

We are happy to inform that our project will be implemented in four regions: not only in Opole, Pomeranian and Varmian-Masurian Voivodeships, but also in Lesser Poland.

 Here is a map of the libraries participating in the project. 


 

 

15 July 2013
Results of the recruitment

We already know the participants of the project ‘Library as a Meeting Place for Many Cultures’. Nine county partnerships which had applied  for the project were accepted.

These are:

Opole Voivodeship

Municipal Public Library in Kędzierzyn-Kożle
Municipal and Communal Public Library in Zdzieszowice
Communal Public Library in Gogolin
Communal Public Library in Polska Cerekiew
Communal Public Library in Pawłowiczki

Regional Public Library named after E. Smołka  in Opole
Municipal Public Library named after John Paul II in Opole
Communal Public Library in Jemielnica
Cultural Centre-Municipal and County Public Library in Ozimek
Communal Public Library in Popielów
Communal Public Library in Tarnów Opolski

Pomeranian Voivodeship

Municipal Public Library named after J. Korczak in Człuchów
Cultural Centre and Library named after J. Kochanowski in Brusy
Culture, Sport and Tourism Centre in Debrzno
Communal Public Library in Polnica
Communal Public Library named after J. Kochanowski in Przechlewo

Municipal Public Library named after M. Dąbrowska in Słupsk
Communal Library in Trzebielino
Communal Public Library in Damnica
Communal Public Library in Główczyce
Communal Public Library in Jezierzyce
Communal Public Library in Kobylnica

Varmian-Masurian Voivodeship

Municipal Public Library in Bartoszyce
Public Library in Bisztynek
Communal Public Library in Galiny
Cultural Centre – Library in Górowo Iławieckie
Municipal-Communal Public Library in Sępopol 

Municipal Public Library named after Z. Nasierowska in Ełk
Communal Public Library in Kalinowo
Public Library of Ełk Commune in Nowa Wieś Ełcka
Communal Cultural Centre – County Public Library in Stare Juchy

Public Library in Gołdapia
Municipal-Communal  Public Library in Węgorzewo
Communal Public Library in Banie Mazurskie
Communal Public Library in Budry
Communal Public Library in Pozezdrze

Municipal Public Library in Olsztynek
Municipal Public Library in Szczytno
Municipal Public Library in Barczewo
Municipal-Communal Public Library named after J. Korczak in Dobre Miasto
Municipal Public Library in Działdowo

Lesser Poland Voivodeship (on condition that The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage will consent)

Municipal Public Library named after St. Gabryel in Gorlice
Cultural Centre of Gorlice Commune
Communal Public Library in Ropa
Communal Public Library in Sękowa

More information:
We already know the results of the recruitment for the project ‘Library as a Meeting Place for Many Cultures’ (PDF file) 



9 July 2013
Project ‘Library as a Meeting Place for Many Cultures’ has been started
Multicultural and creative, in the atmosphere of dialogue and self-reflection, and  what's more, in eight languages: Norwegian Romany, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Russian, English, Kashubian and Polish. Such were the two events which launched the project 'Library as a Meeting Place for Many Cultures' that took place between 24th and 28th June this year: a study visit of a group of Norwegian librarians to Poland, and a Polish-Norwegian multicultural workshop.

More information about the study visit and the multicultural workshop (PDF file)
Gallery (photos from workshop)


 

 
 

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