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3. Established in 1956 by the Municipality of Piran
Established in 1956 by the Municipality of Piran
Two units: Piran and Lucija 3

4. Municipality of Piran Population of 17,477 people
Municipality of Piran
Population of 17,477 people
Multiculturalism - a distinctive characteristic of the region of Istria
Slovenes, Italians, people from the former Yugoslav republics
Slovene and Italian are used as the language of communications – bilingual area 4 4

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PIRAN
(4.100 inhabitants)

7. LUCIJA
(5.800)

8. SEČOVLJE
STRUNJAN
PADNA

9. Civic library Piran
Two departmens in each unit: for adults and young readers
items (books, serials, AV; 2014)
4.234 members (2014)
Items borrowed out of the library: (2014)
Visitors: (2014)

10. Professional staff: 9, technical, administrative: 2
Professional staff: 9, technical, administrative: 2
Our system is COBISS (Co-operative Online Bibliographic System & Services), which is an organisational model of joining libraries into a national library information system with shared cataloguing, the COBIB union bibliographic/catalogue database and local bibliographic databases of participating libraries
Activities organized by Library: exhibitions, story hours, quiz sessions, meetings, library tours 10

14. COBISS – ONLINE CATALOGUE OF SLOVENIAN LIBRARIES (SLOVENIA AND ABROAD)

15. BIBLOS: E-LIBRARY AND E-BOOKSHOP

16. Digitalisation of cultural heritage
Digitalisation of cultural heritage 16

17. Web portal KAMRA Digitised cultural heritage of Slovenian regions.
Web portal KAMRA
Digitised cultural heritage of Slovenian regions.
Managed by the Public Library Celje, which works in close contact with regional libraries where the regional editorial boards are based,
Accumulates digitised local cultural content from libraries and other local cultural institutions.
The content stored on KAMRA is presented in the form of stories with supporting narrations, corresponding digitalised objects and metadata. 17

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Introductions of local authors and other noteworthy people; documents and photographs of significant local association; postcards from different time periods; local works of art, biographies of the authors and exhibitions; famous buildings, the stories of people, etc. 18

19. Civic Library of Piran on Kamra
Civic Library of Piran on Kamra
Digitalised postcards of Piran and other towns in its municipality.
Old photographs and its photographers.
News of local heritage events – book presentations, lectures, exhibitions etc.
2014: World war I diary memories. 19

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22. Giuseppe Tartini monument on Tartini square in Piran, around 1900
Strunjan saltpans, 1930s
Giuseppe Tartini monument on Tartini square in Piran, around 1900 22
Piran, 1898

23. Ivan Merljak: My World war I memories diary
Ivan Merljak: My World war I memories diary 23

24. Album of Slovenia -> Album of Piran: personal memories of the 20th century
An independent sub-collection of the portal KAMRA with its own search engine and module of adding content – digital copies of old photos from 20th century up to the year 1981 (start of digital photography).
Dedicated to the widest spectrum of users (scholars, locals, elder people, tourists, etc.) – every individual can post and share its material.
Goals: to attract local people to actively participate in social and cultural events of local communities; to contribute to the enrichment of the cultural and historical memory of Piran and to the consolidation of belonging and identity of its inhabitants ; to protect photos, letters and other personal documents against the risk of loss, oblivion and destruction.

25. Registration of user required
Before submitting the photo(s), the user is required to equip them with the metadata description (place, time…) and (if possible), a story that enriches it
Topics: technology, modernisation, leisure, means of travel, school days, work, natural disasters, personal jubilees, sport, holidays, first and second World war, reading, etc.

29. Dobre knjige.si
A project started by libraries of Koper and Nova Gorica with cooperation with other public libraries from Slovenia
An online portal with “good books”: quality literature, recommended by Slovenian public libraries

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Multiple search engines: by genre, nationality, awarded books, advanced search; search by choosing the given criteria (happy/sad; relaxed/stressed book, etc.

32. Primorci.si
An online biographical lexicon of the famous people from Primorska (Slovenian Littoral)
It includes data on personalities who were either born in the Littoral / have lived here / attended school, but especially if their work has been marked by the development of this area in the past and the present: writers, poets, literary and art historians, critics, journalists, painters, musicians, architects, priests, scientists, researchers, professors, businessmen, politicians, sportsmen etc.
Managed by public libraries of Koper and Nova Gorica with the help of other Littoral libraries as well as schools, museums and other institutions.

33. Searches by: profession, place of activity, surname, advanced search etc.

35. Our library web page http://www.pir.sik.si
Access to other various online databases, like Ebsco host, Encyclopedia Britannica etc.