The Jagodina Library was given one more opportunity to introduce
the project Agricultural Libraries in Jagodina to European library public.
Jelena Rajic, a librarian and a project coordinator applied for Gates
scholarship to attend the Future Library Unconference on 9th and 10th December
2013 at the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece.
The scholarship was available to librarians and other library
thinkers and doers from the Balkans. She was also chosen by the organizers of
the Future Library Unconference to present the project of Agricultural
Libraries during the Session Balkan Stage.
The tagline of the event was "Being creative, inspiring the
community". There were nearly 400 participants and 55 speakers who
participated in dozens of stages and workshops. Some of the topics were
advocacy, design thinking, e-books, robotics, 3D printing, gaming, etc.
During the presentation of the Agricultural Libraries in Jagodina,
Jelena talked about the very beginning of the project implementation, the needs
of the rural residents in the community, how and why the rural libraries were
transformed into modern agricultural libraries, what services they offer to
farmers and what the real results of the project are and finally about Beyond
Access and its support and engagement in scaling-up of the project idea in the
rest of Serbia.
The FL Unconferece was a great place to talk to colleagues from
Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt, Bulgaria and Albania about the project.
Colleagues in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are facing similar problems in
rural areas. They either have libraries in rural areas that are in bad
conditions or do not have them at all.
Our library will be in touch with some of them, so we can share our
experience and expertise if they decide to include some services for farmers in
their rural libraries.
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