When it’s Library Week in Latvia, Rauna’s library celebrates its centenary.
“We know that the history is older, but the archive information shows that on February 17, 1923, the Rauna parish library received 506 volumes of books from the Culture Fund for the start of its operation. But there is information in the press that there was already talk about a library in Rauna in 1870,” says Digna Soboleva, manager of the Rauna library, and adds that a hundred years of history is very interesting.
During the anniversary week, everyone can get to know the history of the library in photographs, take part in a quiz with questions about the library in different times. Yesterday, former library managers Vija Vaišlia, Janīna Rancāne and Rita Volosova were invited to spend time with their relatives. Their memories are another story for history. The Rauna choir entertained with songs. On Saturday, there will be a meeting with the writer Ilzi Aizsil.
“We all want to have a holiday. We are proud that the library is still in demand and easy to reach through the changes. Readers are very diverse. There are those who do not look for books themselves, they ask for something similar to what they have read before, because the librarian knows their taste. Another spends a long time at the shelves until he chooses a book. Some people come here to catch their breath, flip through press releases, students sit down at the computers while waiting for the bus to go home,” says the manager of the library, and she is pleased that the library has 720 readers. She believes that the municipal funding for the purchase of books and subscription to periodicals is sufficient to provide readers with the latest editions.
“The most demanded are the so-called bestsellers. There are people from Raunen who read only Latvian literature, others on the contrary, only the works of foreign authors. Latvian original literature is popular – both about personalities, travels, novels. Detectives have always been read,” says D. Soboleva.
Exhibitions, meetings with writers and poets are regularly organized in the library. “Meetings with well-known writers and poets are more popular, but you need to get to know the new ones. There have been very nice conversations, but I would like more people to be interested,” says the library manager.
The Rauna library has a branch in Rozes, where readers are served twice a week. The collection for both libraries is the same, and the latest editions are also brought to Roze.
2023-05-01 00:00:51
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