1. 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: www.brezovica.si/stik/default.asp

2. LIBRARY WITH A VIEW: FROM LIBRARY WINDOW LIBRARY WITH A VIEW: FROM LIBRARY WINDOW

3. 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

4. Preserje Elementary school, Library, Address: Preserje 60, 1352 Preserje, SLOVENIA Tel.: 00386/1/360 12 78 Fax: 00386/1/360 12 70 School website: http://www.ospreserje.si/ School librarian / web site: http://www2.arnes.si/~gkreac E – pošta/ e-mail: goranka.kreacic@guest.arnes.si 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

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

6. 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 KNJ4 4.15.8 / 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)

7. THE SCHOOL YEAR THE NUMBER OF VISITORS THE NUMBER OF BOOKS LENT HOME 1984/855 1206530 1985/8649785734 1986/8763136477 1987/8865728930 1988/8955426720 1989/905 2968 464 1990/9165786750 1991/925 5366 123 1992/934 7045 536 THE SCHOOL YEAR THE NUMBER OF VISITORS THE NUMBER OF BOOKS LENT HOME 1993/944 3105 143 1994/953 7965742 1995/9643455243 1996/9737705624 1997/9845506124 1998/9935155667 1999/200035505234 2000/0133604234 2001/0229733632 HOME LENDING STATISTICS

8. THE SCHOOL YEAR THER NUMBER OF VISITORS THE NUMBER OF BOOKS LENT HOME 2002/033 1363 983 2003/043 5964 251 2004/052 7233 863 TOTAL 1984-2004 90 917115 337 2005/20063 2524 322 2006/20072 6983 676 2007/20082 1522 589 2008/2009

9. 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

10. 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