Applications for the heating allowance (2013-2014)

The Central Public Library of Veria responding to the needs of the local community offers you extra services by helping you send the electronic application for the heating allowance to the Ministry of Finance.

For the central heating allowance will need the following documents:

Detached houses or apartments individually heated:

• An electricity bill
• Your taxixnet codes or an income tax return form of the last 5 years
• The IBAN of a bank account assigned to the person applying

Moreover, you will need to know:

• The Vat Registration Number of the owner, if you rent the flat/house or it has been granted to you.

You also have to know the square meters of the house as they appear in your tax return form.

Blocks of flats (Building Managers)

First you have to fill-in the data for each flat which entails:

• The electricity bill of the building
• The taxixnet codes or a recent income tax return form of the building manager
• The Vat Registration Number of the building (if there is one)

The building manager also has to know:

• The full name of each  resident
• The number of flats for each floor
• The millimeters that correspond to each flat

Blocks of flats (Residents)

After the building manager has completed the building’s application each resident must fill-in their own application. The residents will need the following:

• An electricity bill
  • Their taxixnet codes or an income tax return form of the last 5 years
  • The IBAN of a bank account assigned to the person applying

Moreover, you will need to know:

• The Vat Registration Number of the owner, if you rent the flat or it has been granted to you.
• The electricity supply number of the buildingand Vat Registration Number of the building manager.

Operating hours for this service
Morning: Monday to Friday   8:30 -11:30
Afternoon: Monday and Tuesday   16:00-18:00

The applications must be filled-in any time between 15 October and 30 April 2014 
You can buy oil before filling-in the application. 

Come to the Central Public Library (8 Ellis St.) and the staff here will do its best to help you. However, you should know that there are a lot of special cases especially concerning the blocks of flats. This means that we might not have the answer to all your questions or requests addressed to the Ministry of Finance but we can definitely help you contact the staff of the ministry.

For your convenience we would like to ask you to have with you all the necessary documents.

For more information please contact
the Public Library of Veria at 2331024494

Veria Central Public Library A small library… with a far-reaching influence

This August marked the third anniversary of when the former director of the Central Public Library of Veria, Mr. Ioannis Trohopoulos received, in Gothenburg, Sweden, the “Access to Knowledge” award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

            That year, the Gates Foundation chose our library from among 250 candidates worldwide and gave us the material and moral impetus to continue on our way to the top. The award was accompanied by the monetary sum of $1,000,000.

            Today the library continues to be the focal point of the city of Veria. People of every age visit it to borrow books, magazines, braille books, dvds, cd-roms, kindles etc., to look for information from databases and other sources, to attend to workshops, lectures or lessons in new technology, or browse electronically one of the 2,200 newspapers on the biggest news-stand in the world at pressdiplay.com, to sew, to embroider, to draft their CVs, to experiment, to get to know the  world and so much more.

            The library personnel, always striving to make things easier for others, experiment and try to improve their services. Last winter, additional services were added, i.e. assistance in filling in applications for the heating allowance, the printing out of the road tax form and help with the electronic insurance service for those who do not have access to the Internet.

            For many years, the library in Veria has believed in the power of technology and dared to proceed with a series of innovations: it created an automated electronic catalogue in 1992, its own website in 1997 and free internet access for its public in 1999.

            Today, its website www.libver.gr forms a junction which continually acquaints the reader of new services, its ideas, its digital stories, podcasts, vidcasts, as well as the digital depository “Medussa”. In “Medussa” about 700,000 pages of books, newspapers, magazines, maps, documents and manuscripts have been digitalised, and the number increases daily. Information for the webpages of facebook, twitter and flickr are also updated daily.

            The Magic Boxes, the renovated children’s section of the library (the renovation was done in 2009, with funds provided by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation) continue to attract younger and older people and make their mark dynamics of a space that relies on promoting  creative expression and experimentation.

            A place where the explosion of enthusiasm, curiosity, initiative and joy is diffused everywhere, generated by young and old as they take part in the various programmes and activities. In 2012, 330 educational activities were organised, in which 8,000 children took part.

            The successful model of the Magic Boxes formed a guide for the Future Library (www.futurelibrary.gr), the non-profit corporation which is financed by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (www.snf.org) which has restored 8 more children’s libraries in Northern Greece after the original of Veria’s. The Future Library aims to transform the Greek Public and Municipal Libraries into centres of creativity, innovation and learning. The aim of the sponsoring of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation is to expand a network of Public and Municipal Libraries all over the country, which will be linked to the National Library of Greece at its new facilities, at the Cultural Centre of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, strengthening the public conscience regarding the importance of the libraries as centres of learning, creativity and interaction.

            In December 2012, an award for the work of the library in Veria came from the Athens Academy, our country’s most important intellectual foundation. The citation that was read at the awards ceremony was as follows:

“This Academy Award is conferred on the Central Public Library of Veria which, inaugurated half a century ago, has done a great cultural and educational work. Using all the modern technological means and the 27 years of experience of its director Ioannis Trohopoulos, it was a model of organisation and completeness for the counties of Imathia, Pella and Pieria, and offered the gift of learning first of all to the students introducing them to books and then to those people who during their youth did not have the blessings offered by knowledge, which frees from fear and superstition.”

One visit to Veria is enough to get to know first-hand the little miracle of the city, its library, and to ascertain that in Veria people read a lot!

New Opening Hours at Veria Central Public Library

Veria Central Public Library announces that from Tuesday 29 October 2013 and every Tuesday onwards the library will be open for the public in the afternoon as well. Therefore, the new opening hours are as follows:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday: 08:00 – 20:00

Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 08:00 – 15:00

In this library you can:

• Borrow books, magazines, music cds, dvds, kindles, embroidery patterns, board games etc.
• Read newspapers and magazines from all over the world
• Attend free lessons on Information Technology
• Use on of the 18 computers with internet access
• Find articles and bibliography for your essays
• Apply for the heating allowance, find laws and use other electronic services
• Attend to a lecture, seminar or book presentation
• Take part in a creative workshop
• Relax with your kids in a warm, beautiful place

More than 60% of the population of Veria use the services of the Public Library. Maybe it’s your turn to come

Central Public Library of Veria

8 Ellis St. (beside the City Hall) 59100 Veria

www.libver.gr

T 2331024494, F 2331024600, email: info@libver.gr

Invitation to Future Library 2013 Unconference – Athens, Greece

Dear friends,

We are delighted to announce the second Future Library Unconference that will take place in Athens on 9 and 10 December 2013!
You are all invited to participate, by registering through our website (https://2013.futurelibrary.gr/) – the registration opens October 8th.

Participants will present and learn about innovative projects, exchange ideas and build networking ties.

Call for applications – Scholarships for Future Library Unconference 2013
It is our great pleasure to announce that due to funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation it is possible to offer travel scholarships to support colleagues from Balkan countries to attend the Unconference in Athens.
Priority may be given to those who in addition are contributing as a speaker or facilitator in a workshop at the Future Library 2013 Unconference.
Scholarship submission deadline: 25 October 2013.

Here https://2013.futurelibrary.gr/ you can find information and download the application form (also attached to this message).

Please forward this message to your network, friends and colleagues.

Looking forward to seeing you in Athens!
Dimitris Protopsaltou
Programme Manager – Future Library

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But, WHAT IS Future Library? Click here https://about.futurelibrary.gr

Robotics Education @ Veria Central Public Library

Since 2008 on Veria Central Public Library kids can attempt to Robotics education workshops.  On August 2013 Veria Library has added to robots fleet the new Lego Mindstorms EV3 robots.  Learn anything you want to know about Robotics in Veria library by downloading the Presentation PDF file.  See also the video presentation about EV3.

4 Innovative Libraries Transforming Lives Around the World

Only about a third of the world’s population has access to the internet. Here in the United States, libraries have become a major source of Internet access for people who otherwise can’t afford computers or net access — and the same goes for libraries around the world. Giving people access to the Internet in a public setting doesn’t mean handing them a free pass to infinite animated GIFs; it means jobs, health information, and education.

If you love libraries in the U.S., you’ll be blown away at how they transform lives in all countries. Today, let’s look at four innovative projects bringing the power of learning to communities around the world.

Read the full text here: https://mentalfloss.com/article/52525/4-innovative-libraries-transforming-lives-around-world#ixzz2e6zU0zeV