The document summarizes the programs and services provided by the American Corner at the Sofia City Library in Bulgaria. It offers educational programs to over 5000 students annually, covering topics in English language skills, American history and culture. Programs include English conversation groups, book discussion groups, journalism skills workshops, and cultural activities around holidays. The American Corner also provides reference services and access to internet resources for library visitors. It collaborates with other educational institutions and the U.S. Embassy to enhance teaching and learning in Bulgaria.

1. Libraries and International Education
Bansko, 6 – 8 August 2010

3. Over 7000
Over 3000 About 5000
use the library attend programs

4. Provide reference service, and support
access to Internet resources
 Provide programs that take educational
aims
 Collaborate with institutions serving
educational needs

6. Improve the English Learn about USA
Learn about USA
language skills history, geography
history, geography
and culture
and culture
Information literacy
Information literacy
knowledge, skills and
knowledge, skills and Stimulate creativity
Stimulate creativity
techniques
techniques
Develop team working
Develop team working
Educate love to reading
Educate love to reading abilities
abilities
Practice or expand
Practice or expand
Provide opportunities
Provide opportunities knowledge and skills gained
knowledge and skills gained
for volunteer work
for volunteer work at school
at school

7. Knowledge, skills, and techniques
related to computer and Internet use
Rational and precise use of
information
The evaluation of information
Ethics of information use

8. Playing Halloween Games
President’s Day English Language
and Drawing Activities
Thanksgiving Crafts

9. 2010 THEME ANIMALS
Includes:
Drawing
Reading aloud
Creative Writing
Watching Movies
2008 THEME AMERICAN INDIANS 2009 THEME SPACE

10. English Language for Kids
English Language Conversation
Groups
Book Discussion Groups

12. REALIZED IN COOPERATION WITH
SECONDARY SCHOOLS

13. Creative Writing
Interviewing
THEMES ARE CHOSEN FROM
AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
Students gain journalism skills and study about the
famous Americans Martin Luter King Jr., Abraham
Lincoln and The role of Eugene Schuyler and Januarius
MacGahan in Bulgarian history
Skype with MacGahan’s Birth Place

14. Participants:
Middle and high school students
Tasks:
Select a theme
Prepare the project
Present the project
Binding Rules
Use the American corner recourses
Prepare a budget
Work in teams

16. To celebrate the 234th
Anniversary of America,
the U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria
and the American Corner
at the Sofia City Library
held a poster contest for students
with the theme
“BULGARIA AND THE U.S. –
A NEW PARTNERSHIP.”
Bulgarian students competed
in two age groups:
10 to 13 years old,
and 14 to 16 years old.

17. Host speakers or trainers
Acquaint teachers and
students with our resources
and programs

19. PRESENTATIO EXAMS/TEST
NS S
ORIENTATI
ONS
SHARING U.S.

20. Supports initiatives to enhance
the quality of teaching and learning
in Bulgarian schools
and universities
as well as to strengthen
the public library system in Bulgaria.

21. GOALS
To identify Bulgarian undergraduate students, and
promising environmental protection professionals
and provide them with
unique scholarship and
leadership training
in the United States.

22. International not-for-profit organization
working to advance education, research, and
mutual understanding
YES Program
YES Program
Provides scholarships for high school
students to spend up to one academic year
in the U.S. lived with host families

24. It was established in 2004
as an organization dedicated
to facilitating academic research
in Bulgaria for North American
scholars and collaboration
between scholars
from North America and
countries in Southeast Europe

25. The Program offers
training and collaborative opportunities in
international agricultural economics,
agricultural research, leadership and policy
to Bulgarian researchers.
Each Fellow work one-on-one with a U.S. mentor who
will coordinate the Fellow’s training and visit the Fellow's
home institution after completion of the training

26. It provides U.S.-based agricultural
training opportunities for senior
and mid-level specialists and
administrators from public and
private sectors who are concerned
with agriculture

27. Administrator of
The University of Michigan Partnerships with
and The Hellenic American Bulgarian institutions
University Exams in research, exchange
and teaching
Mutual activities: programs
 Organize common events during
American Holidays  Tour students from schools to
 Utilize our contacts to promote each the facilities of the American
other Corner
 Be promoted by fliers and posters at  Prepare mini projects in
the American Corner premises English in the framework of the
 Meet the contacts of the American library collections and the
Embassy and the library exams
 Use the American Corner premises  Organize training seminars at
for presentations the library

28. “Public libraries should support
not only the regular education but
also the individual’s self education
at all levels’’
‘The Public Library Manifesto’ 1994

29. Kameliya Koneva and Diana Velkova
E-mail: libsofia_acc@yahoo.com