Anton TomažLinhart Library Radovljica has 11 branches throughout the area. The main library building was open at 26^th April 2018!

Our library boasts some rather admirable results in what we do, as proved by the statistics, one of them being the circulation per capita: 20,00 of library units loaned by each inhabitant in 2017; each inhabitant visited library 7,78times per year and we had 1.933 performances and activities for reading promotion.  Obviously, our strategic orientation is to motivate everyone to read – for everyone to make reading not only their own need and habit but, above all, their own joy and pleasure, no matter where or when the occasion may arise.

And this is what we do in the Linhart library in all sorts of ways, for people of a variety of ages.

To babies we have joga, to pre-school children we offer fairy-tales rucksacks (with books and sets of hand puppets related to individual fairy tales), we relate fairy tales and stories to them, and we also keep an ongoing cooperation with local kindergartens.

To pupils and highschool students we offer an array of various projects: award-winning quizzes, the Superbook contest, the reading campaign Library – A Universe of Treasures, the Inside out group meetings, the Night With Andersen, Who Has Made a New Shirt for Videk for fosterfamilies and the Growing Up Reading Books projects, alongside with a wide variety of library lessons.

In cooperationwithlocalkindergartensand/or schoolsweholdadditionalexhibitionsandtheninvitepupils/students to viewtheexhibitionstogether, perhapsevenbringingalongtheirparents …

For adults, evening events are organized at least once a week, also with the aim to promote adult reading. For the third age population we have book clubs. There are also two special features of this  motivationprogramme of ours:  Books on Holidays and Summer Reading campaigns (motivating people in a somewhat different way).

Anothermethodofhowtomotivatechildrentoreadisbywayoflibrarylessonswe hold for individual groups/classesboth in librariesand at schools. The fact is that many parents never visit a public library or attend any of the library events, so consequentially their children never visit the library either. This makes this way of addressing the children through their parents all the more important.