Regional Library Petko R. Slaveykov

Veliko Tarnovo

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Library Departments

Service Department at the RL P. R. Slaveykov" has as its main tasks to meet each individual citizen or group of persons seeking some type of information with the help of the various funds and resources of the library.

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The Information Technology Department is an integral part of the Regional Library structure.

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The activities of the department cover the processes of receiving deposit copies and acquiring new literature, registration, processing and cataloguing of library documents.

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The "Reference and Bibliographic and Information Department" was established in 1954 and renamed the "Reference and Bibliographic Department and Cultural and Mass Work" only a few years later in 1958.

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The Middle School Department was opened for the primary purpose of providing neighborhood readers with access to library and information resources.

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The Children's Department at BIC "Slaveyche" was opened on 09. 02. 1999 and contains over 22 000 library items. They are mostly intended for younger readers and for pupils up to the seventh grade.

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The Eagle Foreign Language Center was established in 2002, with the help of the sister American library in Eagle, Colorado, to serve foreign language teachers and professors, foreign language students, elementary and high school students, and adult readers who are active users of foreign languages.

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The Buzludzha branch is located in the district of the same name in Veliko Tarnovo, at 8 Denjo Chokanov Street. It has two departments - an adult department and a children's department. The branch is the main book depository for fiction published after 1944 and for deposit literature from textbooks and teaching aids for schools before 1944. In addition, the collection of Braille books held by the library is also stored here. A reading room with Internet access for readers is attached to the adult section. The children's department, on the other hand, has a room for various games and activities for the teenagers.

In terms of periodicals, the Buzludzha Branch also holds some of the newspapers representing post-1944 regional periodicals on deposit and, in addition, a deposit of some of the Russian and foreign language magazines.

The most frequent reader searches cover current titles of fiction and works on psychology and history.

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The Art Department has an extensive library collection of books, albums, sheet music and periodicals, CDs, DVDs, records, reproductions of paintings.

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Recommended Books

The daughter of the Time

  • Author: Dayan Shaer
  • Language: bulgarian
  • Publisher: Shaer Publisher
  • ISBN: 9786199210666
  • Year of publication: 2024
  • Cover: soft
  • Pages: 366

Do we die when we learn when we will die? The second book in Diane Schaer's Widow of Time trilogy, about an anti-utopian world where everyone knows how long they have to live, returns with a new question: what is the price of delayed truth?"

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My inspirers

  • Author: Ivo Siromahov
  • Language: bulgarian
  • Publisher: Сиела
  • ISBN: 9789542848554
  • Year of publication: 2024
  • Cover: soft
  • Pages: 224

My Inspirers" is a book dedicated to the people who have their special place in the life of its author - Ivo Siromahov.

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"Let Us Remember - Stories from History" - Rosen Petrov

  • Author: Rosen Petrov
  • Language: bulgarian
  • Publisher: Atea Books
  • ISBN: 9786197624564
  • Year of publication: 2024
  • Cover: soft
  • Pages: 262

The book Let Us Remember - Stories from History by the author Rosen Petrov is:

  • a book about the facts we need to know;
  • a book about the places we need to rediscover;

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Hostel for monsters

  • Author: Milen Halyov
  • Language: bulgarian
  • Publisher: Ciela
  • ISBN: 9789542842767
  • Year of publication: 2024
  • Cover: soft
  • Pages: 328

Nineteen-year-old Thea lives in the heart of the party - Student Town. But she is neither a student, nor does she inhabit any of the cult blocks in the eternally awake neighbourhood at the foot of Vitosha, which hosts young people from all over the country.

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A Twist in the Plot

  • Author: Ralitsa Gencheva
  • Language: bulgarian
  • Publisher: Ciela
  • ISBN: 9789542847748
  • Year of publication: 2024
  • Cover: soft
  • Pages: 304

“A Twist in the Plot”, the first novel by poet, minimalist and founder of Bulgaria's most popular book subscription box Ralitsa Gencheva, is a dynamic, suspenseful work with full-blooded characters and a crime mystery that will keep you awake until morning!

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Annual Competitions

Summer campaign "Come to the library"

The Summer Campaign "Come to the Library" is an initiative, conceptually designed to provoke the students from I to XII grade from Veliko Tarnovo, who are readers of RL "Petko R. Slaveykov" to read more and more books during the summer holidays.

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"My hometown"

With the longest and most successful implementation is the annual competition "My hometown". Its first edition was in 2000 and has since become a favorite and recognizable for the participants from the city and the region.

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Foyer of the book with an autograph

Regional Library "Petko R. Slaveykov" - Veliko Tarnovo over the last ten years has established an extremely prestigious cultural event, which is the "Foyer of the book with an autograph". The philosophy of this forum is related to the promotion of Bulgarian printed book production not only in the region, but also nationally.

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"/Un/solved case"

The National Crime Writing Contest, under the general title of "/The/ Unsolved Case," will launch in 2021. The contest is held over a one- or two-month period, traditionally during the fall season of a given calendar year.

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Latest News

OPENING HOURS April 17-22, 2025

HOLIDAY OPENING HOURS

Opening hours for April 17:

RL "P. R. Slaveykov" - Veliko Tarnovo

Central Building (2 Ivanka Boteva Street) -

from 9.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.

BIC Slaveyche (7 S. Veliki Street)

Buzludzha Branch (8 D. Chokanov Street)

Art Department (8 Krakov Street)

from 9.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m.

Медицинска енциклопедия - 36 тома, личен архив на проф. Христо Куманов

Дарение от Анна Куманова. съпруга на проф. Куманов, един от най-забележителните уролози у нас ,доайен на българската уролигия и основоположник на бъбречните трансплантации в България.

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Regional Public Library

Petko R. Slaveykov

5000 Veliko Tarnovo

2, Ivanka Boteva

prs@libraryvt.com

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kalina Ivanova

Director

+359 62 620208

+359 88 9 297 269

director@libraryvt.com

Dr. Ivan Aleksandrov

Deputy Director

+359 62 628098

+359 88 8 790 104

prs@libraryvt.com

Branch 'Buzludzha'

8, Denyo Chokanov st.

+359 62 648 803

buzl_dep@libraryvt.com

Main Building

2, Ivanka Boteva st.

+359 62 627 901

zaemna@libraryvt.com

Art Department

8, Krakov st.

+359 62 630 410

art_dep@libraryvt.com

Department for Senior Readers 'Snejana Yaneva'

7, Simeon Veliki st.

+359 62 641 856

slav_dep@libraryvt.com

Branch 'Slaveiche'

7, Simeon Veliki st.

Children's Department

+359 62 641 856

slav_do@libraryvt.com

Foreign Language Centre 'Eagle'

7, Simeon Veliki st.

+359 62 646 916

eagle_dep@libraryvt.com

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