Lublin and Elefsina library members made their interactive ebook on bookquotes. Enjoy!
Κοινή δουλειά των παιδιών στο Λούμπλιν Πολωνίας και στην Ελευσίνα.
Απολαύστε τα αρχιγράμματα που έκαναν οι Πολωνοί και τα αποφθέγματα για βιβλία που βρήκαν οι Ελευσίνιοι.
Lublin told Elefina that it took three hours to make their initials. Well, think about the medieval scribes (the monks who made manuscripts) who worked all day for a year or less to produce a fine book made for the privileged few who could read and basically, afford it. Have a go! Try it twice and tell us about your progress. Consult the comments generously posted by our readers, so you can construct your knowledge upon the effort of other people. Browse through the Manuscript Virtual Museum with the bedazzling colours and fonts!
St.Jerome, the patron saint of translators and librarians was a prominent christian scholar of the 5th century. Known for his deep concentration on his reading, he surprised his friend St Augustine for reading in silence instead of aloud, as was the custom in Antiquity. He is portrayed in Art with a lion, which, according to the story, came to the monastery seeking the saint to heal his paw of a thorn, and followed him as a pet ever since.
Many painters painted their patron bishops and cardinals as St Jerome, to flatter them. Read more at Kolorowe Armadio
Παιδιά, ξέρατε ότι ο Άγιος Ιερώνυμος που έζησε τον 5ο μ.Χ. αιώνα είναι ο προστάτης των μεταφραστών και των βιβλιοθηκαρίων; Μετέφρασε την Βίβλο στα Λατινικά και σύμφωνα με τον θρύλο, έβγαλε το αγκάθι από ένα λιοντάρι που έφθασε κουτσαίνοντας στο μοναστήρι του, κι από τότε τον ακολουθούσε σαν πιστό σκυλί μέχρι να πεθάνει. Πολλοί διάσημοι ζωγράφοι απεικόνισαν τους καρδιναλίους και τους πάτρονές τους ως Άγιο Ιερώνυμο, κάτι που τους κολάκευε αφάνταστα!
Later on the same day, we had our first videosession, with the students who remained after school hours
I'm proud of my work. I hope the competition will be like it. I wait for your ansers and reply. For winner is waiting a prize! Good luck and enjoy your fun!
Booklovers not only love books but also they love every things connected with books and reading. They collect and make creative bookmarks. Readers care about the aesthetic quality of reading. They admire beauty of books, places and objects inspired with reading. Our hand-made bookmarks are in decoupage and bookscrapping techniques.
...which inspired us in Elefsina to make paper jewels! Click here for the printable edition!
"Bookmarks. A happy thriller" Bookmarks, made of any kind of material, but mostly paper, are small works of art. They carry information about the time they were made and reflect the aesthetics of their creators.
Collecting bookmarks is a journey, a personal adventure; it is an endless field trip, a passion like any other: it includes searching, sacrifices and dedication. Bookmarks show me around the universe of books, they inform me, they take me all around the world, the languages, the cultures. They keep me far better company than anything else that has enchanted me in the past. I hold them, spin them in my hands, understand their “language”. They’re my cat, my dog and my joy.
Their simplicity pleases me, since they have yet to become officially a collector’s item, as stamps, coins and other objects have become. I find them in book stores, I trade them with collectors all over the world, whom I later befriend and who make up my very own “international village”.
Categorized in dossiers on bookshelves, they are a different kind of book case in the house, just as warm and friendly, a book case with very small two-paged books, which can be browsed through and read just like the most exciting thriller.
Dimitris Papakostas, collector Translated by Constandinos Papageorgiou
One bookmark for one class. The Dewey classification system in Elefsina school library through bookmarks here!Apart from the ten classes, there are bookmarks to show the rest of the collection, such as the digital part (cds, dvds) the Greek literature bookmark, the Internet bookmark (no library is conceivable without it!) etc
This school year we popularized book fashion. The most important adventage is design clothings and jewellery from materials you use in a library. We designed dresses, skirts, hots, T-shirts and necklaces. We used foil, newspapers, covers, plastic bag, CD, postcards and bookmarks. We hope somebody would like to go to school or library party dressed in this kind of eco-friendly clothing.
"Stay where you are!" I said to Katerina, whom I caught reading as she came to dust the library shelves. "Can you just put the duster under your arm?" She did. This was not a chance to be lost. Katerina, our bookloving cleaning lady and library member, took the same stance with the Paxton maid, a painting of the early 1900s. Leaving the dreary work aside for just a glimpse at a good book, just enough to start dreaming yourself into a better world.
The Library Redecoration Month just couldn't kick off without a good cleaning!
Το μέλος της βιβλιοθήκης μας και ο άνθρωπος που καθαρίζει τον χώρο μας σαν να ήταν δικός του, η Κατερίνα, θύμισε τον πίνακα του Πάξτον με την κοπέλα που αφήνει τις δουλειές για λίγη μαγεία από τα βιβλία. Το μόνο που ζήτησα ήταν να αλλάξει την θέση του φτερού. Θαυμάστε την σύμπτωση!
We followed Lublin's example and started imitating Reading Women in Art. This is René Magritte's painting, edited by the student herself as were the following ones. What can possibly account for the reader's expression?
Προσπαθήστε να μαντέψετε τι διαβάζει η γυναίκα και έχει αυτό το ύφος! Ο πίνακας είναι του Βέλγου σουρρεαλιστή ζωγράφου Ρενέ Μαγκρίτ (1898-1967). Διαλέξαμε να τον μιμηθούμε, γιατί η μαθήτριά μας φορούσε τα ίδια ρούχα κατά τύχη! Δική της και η επεξεργασία της φωτογραφίας.
Gustav Adolph Hennig (1797-1869), Young Girl reading
Henry Robert Morland, Woman Reading by a Paper-bell Shade, 1766
"Το βιβλίο είναι ένας κήπος που μεταφέρεις στην τσέπη σου". Πόσοι πίνακες απεικονίζουν αναγνώστες αφοσιωμένους στις σελίδες του αγαπημένου τους βιβλίου ή την στιγμή του στοχασμού επάνω σε ό,τι διάβασαν. Η ομορφιά της αναγνώστριας είναι το θέμα του ημερολογίου μας που ετοιμάζεται και οι βιβλιοθήκες μας αυτή την εποχή μεταμορφώθηκαν σε κήπους ανάγνωσης.
Art and books inspire readers. Every woman likes reading in the garden. You can see it in presented photos and painting. Art shows and teaches us too that time isn't important and that it connects people.Our photo shoot was a nice experience, and we all enjoyed ourselves enormously. Try to say :
Which painting is in the original? (An Author and Title)
Do you know persons in next photos? (Names)
Can you make a suggestion about reading? (Quotes)
"A book is like a garden carried in a pocket" (Chinese proverb).For keen readers is so beautiful like a favorite flower, for those who don't like reading is like a cactus.
We hope you agree with us. Show us "your reading garden" please.
Look at our libraries. We show how they looked in June. Tell us what do you see similar? Do you like our redecorations? Can we inspire you? Is it important in your opinion to redecorate libraries from time to time? We prepared comfortable places for reading, funny and modern designs and book gifts.
Κοιτάχτε πώς μεταμορφώνονται οι βιβλιόθηκες μας από τις ιδέες που μοιραζόμαστε. Πρωτότυπες αναγνωστικές γωνιές και ευφάνταστα ράφια, νέα έπιπλα (έστω και φερμένα από τα σπίτια μας!). Όλα για την απόλαυση του αναγνώστη!
Ever thought about how the library angel sees the library? Or even the fairies that come out of the Fairy Story department or Pinio the library companion? Well, take a look at the slideshow above and start looking at thing from a different point of view!
Πώς άραγε να φαίνεται η βιβλιοθήκη στον Πίνιο, την μασκώτ της βιβλιοθήκης, ή στον Άγγελο της Ανάγνωσης που σου λύνει όλες τις απορίες, ή ακόμα στις νεραϊδούλες που το βράδυ δραπετεύουν από τον τομέα της Λαογραφίας;
Ας μάθουμε να βλέπουμε την βιβλιοθήκη και τον κόσμο με άλλον τρόπο...
Our little library friend is a dwarf. He comes from different Polish city. This time he lives in Lublin. The dwarf is the best reader in the library. He is called Booklover and he is very smart and prudent. We know him such an intellectual and a multilingual person. Sometimes he helps pupils to study but not everybody can meet him. You should respect books and from time to time you should to look for him beetwen books in the library.
Watch the little library friend move in the Bogatynia school library. He seems a booklover, don't you think?
Maybe he can find a twinner in the partner libraries soon!
And here they are! Pinio in Bogatynia-Poland and Pinia in Elefsina-Greece!
Οι μασκώτ των βιβλιοθηκών μας. Ο βιβλιόφιλος νάνος του Λούμπλιν και ο Πολωνός Πίνιο που αγάπησε την Ελληνίδα Πίνια. Φτιαγμένα από τους μαθητές μας με πλαστελίνη.
We even made the littelest Pin(ia) compared to a pin. Φανταστείτε πόσο μικρή είναι αυτή η Πίνια, η μασκώτ της βιβλιοθήκης!
Did you know that if you have a personal question and you go to a library, the Library Angel will answer it? Just choose a book and start reading in a random page, until you find your answer! Τι γυρεύει ένας άγγελος κλεισμένος σε ένα βιβλίο; Μήπως τα παιδιά από την Λακατάμεια μπορούν να γράψουν τις απαντήσεις τους;
One more bookcarving from Elefsina and what we make of the parts we carve. We try to waste nothing!
