Since September 2008, the Library Vallisneri became part of the circuit BookCrossing, becoming an Official Crossing Zone
What is BookCrossing?
The BookCrossing is a different way to exchange books, release them, make them Circular, see where they end up. The initiative is driven by the spirit of sharing knowledge and passion for reading.
Among the projects that the Civil Service of the University of Padua has a number of years, one for the University Library System has never been absent.
We believe that giving to young people between 18 and 28 years, often college students, the opportunity to perform their service with the Library of the Academy provides an opportunity for civil growth and knowledge, easily expendable during both studies after graduation. Becoming part of a working group, dealing with procedures and working methods defined allows volunteers "learning by doing" on the one hand responding to the needs of education and cultural promotion, the other general and specialist information acquiring skills that the volunteer university can use in the course of his studies or, later, as a citizen in society.
The volunteers selected for the projects are mostly students of our university that they accept to play the game and move their point of view, in this case, beyond the counter of the library, become operators and service not just users, and this dynamic frequently initiates a virtuous circle which benefits both the volunteers and users.
Antonella Miolo
