Information about the seminar

These were the speakers at the seminar:

Sunday
Lena Kåreland, professor in childrens litterature. Swedish childrens litteratur and it's history
Paata Papava, about research about illiteracy in Georgia
Lennart Lundgren, head of culture in Stenhamra, how a small library for children can become the center of a village
Ingrid Källström, librarian. Librarys in Sweden and how they can work with UN's children rights convention.

Monday
Eva Susso, writer. About her year as an "adopted" writer in Rinkeby library in a Stockholm suburb
Irakli Garibashvili, chairman of the library association. About librarys in Georgia and their situation.
Davit Kiziria, about the education of librarians in Georgia

Voices from the seminar on Sunday

Rusudan Chanturia from a schoollibrary in Kiketi
-It is really exciting! It is also interresting to hear about how Swedish librarys sort books by ages and subjects. Our library is mostly for 6 year olds.

Veriko and Mediko, schoollibrary nr 42 Tbilisi
-This is all very exciting and new for us, librarys are so active and different.
Any new ideas?
-Maybe!

Ingrid Källström, Childrens right convention and librarys

This is librarian Ingrid Källström in her working clothes. She spoke on Sunday about her work at Stockholm culture house childrens library "Rum för barn" and also how librarys can be a part of fulfilling UNs Childrens Right Convention and the importance of taking children and childrens rights seriously.

Preparing for Seminar

Today three of the Swedish lecturers had their first day in Tbilisi. This was exciting for all swedes as it is Nationalday with a lot of music, dancing and markets on Rustaveli, the main avenue downtown. Tomorrow is the first day of the Seminar with Professor Lena Kåreland as the first one to speak. The seminar will be held at the University and the information about this can be found here. (in Georgian)