Unlimited reading pleasure
HSZG students promote international literature exchange and open a BiblioboXX in Zgorzelec.
On June 18, 2021, the BiblioboXX was inaugurated in Zgorzelec in collaboration with students from the HSZG and students from the DPFA Europrymus Zgorzelec. Approximately 30 people attended the event.
Working Together for a Bilateral Literary Exchange
All participants are part of the bilateral project, which aims to foster a literary exchange both in Poland’s immediate neighborhood and on an international level. The mini-library was officially inaugurated with an artistic program. In addition to musical performances, the university’s Rector, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Kratzsch, and the managing director of the DPFA, Katarzyna Hübner, delivered speeches. To express this sense of solidarity, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kratzsch referred in his speech to the treaty “on good neighborliness and friendly cooperation” signed 30 years ago between Germany and Poland. The box was then filled with books thanks to numerous book donations.
Getting new ideas with old books
The book box is intended to provide access to exciting books and at the same time relieve your bookshelf of books you have already read. The attraction is that you can become aware of books that you might never have discovered. There are already over 2,400 publicly listed bookcases in Germany, 78 of which are in Saxony. The "number of unreported cases" is likely to be much higher. There are no more precise figures for Poland.
"Special thanks go to INBAK (Institute for Sustainability in Education, Work, and Culture) in Berlin, which provided us with the decommissioned phone booth that had previously served as a 'BücherboXX' in Poznan, Poland."
The project is also of great importance to the Social Work degree programme.
"This project is intended to serve as a model for how to set up neighborhood-based or community-based work," says Jürgen Mölder, a lecturer in Social Sciences at HSZG.
”He is the initiator of the project, because one of the core fields of social work is community work, i.e. work across all social strata.
Division of labor without borders
There are several mixed Polish-German working groups that take care of the individual tasks of the project. One working group, for example, looked for sponsors to guarantee successful and long-term financing. Another team organized the opening ceremony and the entire course of the event. There is a "network and caretakers" group to ensure that the box is not neglected and is supplied with book donations from libraries and bookshops.
The "Logistics and Design" group organized the transport and ultimately the installation at the location in close consultation with INBAK.
Another group, "PR and Public Relations", takes care of the Biblioboxx's online presence on Facebook and Instagram as well as all other types of public relations work, including radio reports and newspaper articles.
All in all, a beautiful afternoon of a festive opening with good music and speeches came to an end.
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