For librarians
Instructional and methodological support
The Silesian Library, which has the status of a regional library, takes care and exercises substantial supervision over the network of municipal libraries in the Silesian Voivodeship. Its instructional and methodological activities include:
- methodological assistance (in the form of on-site and field consultations), including:
- collecting and processing collections,
- organisation and management of libraries,
- automation of library processes,
- promotion of reading,
- protection of library collections,
- reporting and collecting statistics on the work of libraries;
- organisation and implementation of training and other forms of professional development for librarians (workshops, courses, seminars, conferences);
- research on the state of readership and preparing evaluations, analyses and reports on the activity of municipal libraries in the Silesian Voivodeship;
- cooperation with local governments, formulating and submitting proposals for organisational changes to the organisers of public libraries in the Silesian Voivodeship;
- initiating reading campaigns at voivodeship level, cooperation with organisers of national events and promotion of library activities in the media;
- development and publication of methodological aids for the vocational training of librarians;
- cooperation with county libraries in the implementation of tasks entrusted to them for the benefit of lower-level municipal libraries;
- coordination of nationwide programmes within the Silesian Voivodeship.
Instructional and Methodological Department
plac Rady Europy 1, 40-021 Katowice
tel.: (+48) 32 208 37 78, (+48) 32 208 37 61
e-mail: metodyczny@bs.katowice.pl
Monday-Friday from 8.00 am to 3.00 pm
