Europe Day in Ballinasloe Library

To-day,9th May we are celebrating EUROPE DAY here at Ballinasloe Library ,which is also a EUROPE DIRECT RELAY.

In order to celebrate this anniversary, we are focusing on a celebration of European authors and we are doing this by having an Exhibiton of Books in translation by these authors in three different areas of the library. By doing this,we hope to tie in the information that we provide on Europe on a daily basis with European arts{literature and all other forms of the arts} in such a way that it will educate,inform and bring the people who come in here closer to Europe as it is to-day. Margot Wallstrom, Vice-President of the European Commission, wants the ordinary person to learn about Europe through simple language...she realizes that the EU, which was a mystery and something very far away for most of us is now being brought closer to everyone, with information available literally, on demand.
We appreciate the co-operation and help received from Pat McMahon, County Librarian and the staff at both Galway City and Headquarters with this project to-day.

"That libraries are unique....windows into other cultures and ways of life,and that libraries provide services to those people who...seek new content for their lives,and who are thereby actively helping to build a new citizens Europe."

From:The Rynnen report on the "Role of libraries in the Modern World",adopted almost unanimously on 23rd October 1998 by the European Parliament.