PRESERJE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / SLOVENIA/EU: SCHOOL LIBRARY PRESERJE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / SLOVENIA/EU: SCHOOL LIBRARY The school library is the segment which every school should have. Library materials are being collected, kept, processed, represented and lent. Librarians also perform educational activities, i.e. librarian and information knowledge. The scope of these activities includes all the elements of ICT literacy, with a special emphasis on making use of the library and available data, which can be obtained in this connection. In the photo: the village of Preserje with a baroque church of St. Vitus: Preserje Elementary school is situated in the picturesque surrounding on the border of Ljubljana Marshland, approximately 20 km. from the capital centre. Internet source:

LIBRARY WITH A VIEW: FROM LIBRARY WINDOW LIBRARY WITH A VIEW: FROM LIBRARY WINDOW

Our school library is an ample space with about 130 square meters of total area. There is a reading room too, which serves for school conferences, school Parliament meetings, parents meetings, school council meetings, etc. It consists of about 8000 books and other library material i.e. VHS, DVD & CD. There are two computers with internet access for the students. The third one serves for searching information and other library data. It is connected to a computer classroom too. READING ROOM

Preserje Elementary school, Library, Address: Preserje 60, 1352 Preserje, SLOVENIA Tel.: 00386/1/ Fax: 00386/1/ School website: School librarian / web site: E – pošta/ BASIC INFORMATION In the photo/ the school area: Meanders of the Ljubljanica River: A 41 km. long river which slowly flows from Vrhnika across the flat Ljubljana Marsh. Due to its karstic characteristic it is more acquainted as the “River with Seven Names”. Internet source: www2.pms-lj.si/razstave/barje/barje.html

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES COORDINATOR TEXTBOOK FUNDS SURVEY ON ELECTIVE/OPTIONAL SUBJECTS ADDITIONAL CLASSES WITH TALENTED STUDENTS (school newspaper) ADDITIONAL WORKS Library Reading room

The library is open for books lending, reading, & searching for information every working day from Monday to Friday: from 7, 30 to 9,00 from 12,00 to 14,30 School library has got automatic data processing and uses the program KNJ / SAOP, Nova Gorica. LENDING TIMETABLE In the photo/ the school area: The old bridge over the River Ljubljanica Internet source: ww.brezovica/si/stik/podjetje_poslji.asp (look at the two last slides to read the legend of Jason)

THE SCHOOL YEAR THE NUMBER OF VISITORS THE NUMBER OF BOOKS LENT HOME 1984/ / / / / / / / / THE SCHOOL YEAR THE NUMBER OF VISITORS THE NUMBER OF BOOKS LENT HOME 1993/ / / / / / / / / HOME LENDING STATISTICS

THE SCHOOL YEAR THER NUMBER OF VISITORS THE NUMBER OF BOOKS LENT HOME 2002/ / / TOTAL / / / /2009

The Ljubljana territory was in the ancient times a big lake. In the Neolithic period (3000 to 2000 B.C.) the lake dwellers lived on the lake in houses built on poles (next slide!) set in marshy lake bottom. A legend says that one day Jason and his Argonauts visited this territory. Jason and his men from the ship called Argo, so the legend says, stole the Golden Fleece from the king of Colchis in Asia Minor (today the region of Caucasus). The ship of Argo escaped its pursuers but entered the mouth of the Danube instead of sailing southwards into the Aegean Sea. There was no way back for the fugitives, so they continued their way up the Danube, then up the river of Sava and finally had a stop at the source of the river Ljubljanica. They carried their ship in pieces overland to the Adriatic Sea and continued their way home alongside the Adriatic coast. Near the source of the Ljubljanica river they found a big lake with a marshy shore, where their leader Jason had to fight and kill a terrible moor monster. It looked like a dragon. This is the Ljubljana dragon that is seen today at the top of castle tower in the Ljubljana coat of arms. THE LEGEND OF JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS

From the exhibition The Heritage of the Sharpcorn Stag The exhibition on 130 years of first discovers of piles dwellings in Ljubljana marshland. Institute of ZRC SAZU in collaboration with Cankarjev dom Vrhnika, Municipality of Brezovica, Ig, the Municipal Museum of Ljubljana, an the National Museum of Ljubljana. The Hall of the School, the 7th – 28th November 2005 Authors of the exhibition: Anton Velušček, Maja Andrič, Katarina Čufar, Borut Toškon Reconstruction of the piles dwelling: Janez Kržič