{"id":13229,"date":"2024-07-16T06:57:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T04:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.krajskakniznicazilina.sk\/?page_id=13229"},"modified":"2025-02-27T14:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T13:34:18","slug":"from-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.krajskakniznicazilina.sk\/index.php\/about-library-eng\/from-history\/","title":{"rendered":"From History"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_225\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-225\" style=\"width: 177px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krajskakniznicazilina.sk\/menu\/okniz\/hist\/kniz1.jpg\" alt=\"b\u00fdvala podoba kni\u017enice\" width=\"187\" height=\"152\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the past library sites<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_226\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-226\" style=\"width: 177px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krajskakniznicazilina.sk\/menu\/okniz\/hist\/kniz_bul.jpg\" alt=\"pobo\u010dka na Bulv\u00e1ri\" width=\"187\" height=\"152\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Branch on Bulv\u00e1r<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_229\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-229\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-229\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krajskakniznicazilina.sk\/menu\/okniz\/hist\/kniz_pred.jpg\" alt=\"kni\u017enica pred rekon\u0161trukciou\" width=\"226\" height=\"152\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The library before reconstruction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>1919<\/strong> \u2013 The Regional Library had not existed yet, but the <strong>Act about Libraries<\/strong> (Kni\u017eni\u010dn\u00fd z\u00e1kon) was passed, which imposed an obligation on Czechoslovak townships to build libraries. What is even better \u2013 the act set the amount of contribution based on the number of residents. It was between 0,30 and 1 crown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>1924<\/strong> \u2013 The Regional Library still had not existed, but its predecessor, the <strong>Public City Library in \u017dilina<\/strong>, did. It officially started operating on <strong>15. 10. 1924<\/strong> and its first librarian was a professor at a state grammar school, Raymund \u017di\u017eka. Andrej Hvizd\u00e1k-Podlu\u010dinsk\u00fd, a known labor poet and publicist, became its first professional librarian in 1931.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>1952<\/strong> \u2013 After a \u201cdeaf\u201d war and afterwar period when the library stagnated and almost stopped its operation, this year brought a revival to the library practice in \u017dilina thanks to the <strong>Regional Library<\/strong> being founded. It opened on 07. 01. 1955, in the <strong>Slovan<\/strong> hotel and consisted of five rooms. Jozef P\u00e1v was its director. A year later, the library had branches over the whole city and its outskirts. The most beautiful one was in the <strong>Ast\u00f3ria<\/strong><strong> hotel<\/strong>. Lovely spaces were also in Studni\u010dky with a big, well-equipped reading room opened daily until 10pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>1960<\/strong> \u2013 The Regional Library became <strong>District Library in \u017dilina<\/strong> during regional reorganization. It became the headquarters of informational activity in the whole district. Gradually, new specialized departments (methodological and bibliographic) arose. They performed regional functions in the network of public libraries. Central purchase of books for public libraries started in 1964.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Core library indicators continued to rise; the library had more than 30 employees and many branches in different parts of the city. They peaked at 24 in 1989. Let\u2019s remind ourselves of these two:<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krajskakniznicazilina.sk\/menu\/okniz\/hist\/bulvar.jpg\" alt=\"pobo\u010dka Bulv\u00e1r\" width=\"250\" height=\"175\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fiction was read mostly on Bulv\u00e1r.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krajskakniznicazilina.sk\/menu\/okniz\/hist\/polito.jpg\" alt=\"politick\u00e9 oddelenie\" width=\"250\" height=\"175\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scientific Literature in the Political Department<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>1991<\/strong> \u2013 The management of the District Library fell under the Ministry of Culture, local libraries under self-government. It had negative effects on public and city libraries. Some still haven\u2019t recovered from them. Even the District Library in \u017dilina found itself in a worse financial situation. In addition, the large fragmentation of services at the branches became limiting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>1994<\/strong> \u2013 The library acquired the dreamed <strong>central object on the<\/strong> <strong>Bernol\u00e1k<\/strong><strong> St. no. 47<\/strong>. Thanks to the Ministry of Culture, debarrierization of the object was soon carried out. However, employees and users had not anticipated the surprise that was waiting for them \u2013 a leak in the roof.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After years of war with water and melting snow, a superstructure was finally built which helped the library gain not only protection from one of the natural elements but also new spaces for events, Children and Youth Literature Sections, and Specialized Departments. This was the beginning of a new chapter in the history of the modern library.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>1997<\/strong> \u2013 the Regional State Library in \u017dilina was removed from Severopova\u017esk\u00e9 Cultural Centre and the functions the library had until then (district library for the \u017dilina and Byt\u010da districts and city library for \u017dilina) were extended by the function of regional library for the \u017dilina region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2002<\/strong> \u2013 This year brought yet another organizational change and a new establisher. After a long time of being governed by state, it changed to be managed by the newly founded \u017dilina Self-governing Region on 01. 04. 2002. It changed its name again to \u017dilina Library and in 2008 changed it once more to the <strong>Regional Library in \u017dilina<\/strong> based on the request of its establisher.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2020<\/strong> \u2013 The ground floor of the Regional Library in \u017dilina underwent a significant reconstruction of the flooring, electrical grid, ceiling and lighting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2021<\/strong> \u2013 As of 01. 07. 2021, the original library branches (H\u00e1jik, Vl\u010dince, Solinky, Byt\u010dica, Trnov\u00e9, and Str\u00e1\u017eov) finished their operation as service places of the Regional Library in \u017dilina. The city of \u017dilina took over them and formed City Library \u017dilina.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In accordance with the charter of incorporation, the library is a cultural, informational, scientific, and educational institution which provides unlimited access to information in its regional jurisdiction. It is a coordinating, educational, statistical, methodological, and specialized-consulting center for regional libraries in \u010cadca, Doln\u00fd Kub\u00edn, Liptovsk\u00fd Mikul\u00e1\u0161, and Martin, and for city and public libraries in the \u017dilina and Byt\u010da districts. It also covers tasks connected to documenting the state and development of library and information services in the region, coordinating bibliographic and editing activities, and functions as a city library for the city of \u017dilina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 1919 \u2013 The Regional Library had not existed yet, but the Act about Libraries (Kni\u017eni\u010dn\u00fd z\u00e1kon) was passed, which imposed an obligation on Czechoslovak townships to build libraries. What is even better \u2013 the act set the amount of contribution based on the number of residents. It was between 0,30 &#8230; <a title=\"From History\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.krajskakniznicazilina.sk\/index.php\/about-library-eng\/from-history\/\" aria-label=\"Pre\u010d\u00edtajte si viac o From History\">\u010c\u00edta\u0165 viac<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":12246,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13229","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krajskakniznicazilina.sk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krajskakniznicazilina.sk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krajskakniznicazilina.sk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krajskakniznicazilina.sk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krajskakniznicazilina.sk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13229"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.krajskakniznicazilina.sk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14725,"href":"https:\/\/www.krajskakniznicazilina.sk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13229\/revisions\/14725"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krajskakniznicazilina.sk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krajskakniznicazilina.sk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}