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17/05/2018. The Library Night 2018 was a great success!
The National Library of Karelia hosted for the first time its guests in a renovated and refurbished building.
Since 2012, the National Library of Karelia has been conducted the Library Night campaign annually. The VII National Library was different, because for the first time the doors of a completely restored building were opened for the guests.
The guests of the Library Night went up the main stairs between people reading texts in different languages in a low voice, and caught a growing sound wave which led to a beautiful bright space with many platforms. Some of them stayed at the stairs and joined the readers participated in the flash mob.
In the brightly lit rooms, a lot of events awaited them. Lectures, educational events, intellectual battles and quizzes, divination by books. Excursions: to the Karelian Roerich Centre, to the book storage department, “technological” (about new equipment for readers). The exhibitions and children's area with an exhibition of tactile books were open, the amateurs of choral singing and classical performance of Russian romances gathered in the music room. The master classes
were buzzing with activity. Authors and lovers of reading performed prosaic and poetic texts. More than three thousand readers visited the library.
It is remarkable that during that long time marathon cozy corners for quiet reading were not empty.