Miejska biblioteka Publiczna w Żorach (Zory Municipal Public Library)

Miejska biblioteka Publiczna w Żorach (Zory Municipal Public Library) is a place, where passions are being born and dreams are coming true. Our goal is to create an opportunity for our clients to benefit not only from rich resources of books, magazines and multimedia, but also through offered activity forms ignite the process of self-development and self-realization. We are ardent propagator of learning throughout entire life. In the area of our action we embrace children, youth, workers, job seekers, and seniors, offering them a diverse schedule of a cultural and educational actions. We promote readership, organize meetings with culture people and creative workshops in many different topic areas. We organize art exhibitions for fine artists, both amateur and professionals, from Poland as well as from abroad. Thinking about 50 plus age group we are hosting courses on a computer skills, tablet handling, and usage of digital camera. Discussion book clubs are already a tradition, books and English lovers are welcome to join weekly meetings called “Chatting with Tea”. A lots of our attention goes towards the young readers to engraft them with the love for books and library. For this purpose we conscript special „ Reading Families Integration Club”, where we welcome whole families even generational! For our older youngsters apart from a good reading and always kind librarians, „Young Gallery” space awaits, here we present their creativity and talents. We also put a lots of focus on non-formal education: we undertake actions in which goals are to expand the knowledge, getting practical skills by our users, skills that are being trained manually, experienced and used in activities. We propose a diverse offer of cultural actions, educational and upbringing ideas. In our library the „Local Coding Club” has been established where we conduct programming workshops, and develop passions in the area of new technologies. There are 3D workshops, animation and graphic design as well as movie making courses. Furthermore we implement a lots of original international projects on the domestic level as well as various events with social themes. Thanks to those actions we influence forming of an openness attitude, full of understanding and tolerance.