Big challenge, but great experience

Mrs Ivana, our chief project coordinator

Mrs Ivana Pesic is graduate engineer in agriculture and she works as a librarian at the Department for the development and improvement of library - information work. She has been engaged in the AgroLib Project since 2011.

Being a graduate engineer in agriculture, in the beginning she was responsible for suggesting lecture topics for farmers and lecturers, and now she is the chief project coordinator responsible for proposing lecturers, lecture schedules, advertising through the media-radio and television.

Very successful lecture on blueberries

„Work on the project is a great experience for me. This is the third year of the AgroLib Ja project implementation and I can say it is the best one. The AgroLib team has upgraded the project this year and raised it to a higher level. Each team member has their own duties and responsibilities for completing tasks. Despite having a clear concept and plan of project activities, we often solved problems and difficulties in the field, and by doing this we also improved project activities. For a successful implementation of such a big project, activities, work in a team and learn in the field.

Addressing people's needs- our project's key to success

This year (I mean the project activities we carried out this winter, because the AgroLib Ja project is most active when farmers do not have much work on their fields and that is the winter period), on five ICT trainings there were 27 farmers, and on seven agricultural lectures there were 402 participants. The website www.agrolib.rs from the beginning of the year until 22^nd March 2013 had 16.559 visits, which is about 10% more than lthe same time, last year.

 I am very happy when website users or farmers ask me for some sort of assistance. The most striking are two stories I will mention here and which show good organization of project team members.

Mrs Slavica, a teacher in a kindergarten in Jagodina, or a beekeeper-beginner, asked for help on one occasion: „I heard that you have beekeeping literature in your library. “ She wanted a book that we have only at the Bagrdan Library. After a few days, the librarian from Bagrdan brought me the book. Mrs Slavica was very satisfied. And we from the project team were even more satisfied because the book helped here solve a problem with bees breeding.

Busy lectures, satisfied participants

After the lecture on blueberries, I told the audience that if they had suggestions for the next lecture, I would like to hear them. Mr Vlastimir Mladenovic, a member of Pomoravlje beekeeping association that we have been cooperating with for two years approached me and said that the members of his association at one of the meetings talked about the problems and dilemmas they had in their work and suggested me a few topics and lecturers they discussed at the meeting. The lecture was held at the library 7 days later and was well-attended and very constructive.

Mr Vlastimir Mladenovic, as a sign of gratitude, wrote a short text on the lecture at the library and thanked the library and the project AgroLib Ja for cooperation. His piece of writing was published in a weekly newspaper Novi Put http://noviput.rs/np  . By the way, Novi Put is the paper covering the regions of Pomoravlje, Resava and Levac.

“Work on the AgroLib Ja project is a big challenge, but a great experience for all of us“, concludes her story Ivana Pesic.