The proposed „Migrate to Library” project arranges the cooperation of four public libraries from Croatia, Spain, Ireland and Poland. It aims at good practice exchange as well as at acquiring the competences that will be employed in non-formal education lead by the librarians. All this in the interest of integration of local communities with migrants, resulting in their inclusion and countering of segregation and discrimination. Acquired and developed skills will be used in further work and will contribute to a personal, social and professional growth. That will result in the rise of library attractiveness which will bring measurable benefits to the users. Community members will show more interest in local libraries. The preoccupation with learning, reading and aware public-spirited activities will grow. The international meetings in particular partners’ libraries are within the framework of the project. Each of the events means active participation in discussions, workshops, meetings with local authorities and organizations working for migrants. The intercultural dialogue will be formed. The achieved knowledge, new methods and tools and meeting European culture will form the basics for further work with migrants and for international cooperation. It will empower the role of libraries and enrich the educational offer. Libraries will gain the reputation of modern cultural institutions, open to multiculturalism and supporting elimination of negative social phenomena such as xenophobia, racism and discrimination.
Project called "Migrate to library" was a collaborative undertaking of public libraries as follow : - Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna w Żorach (Poland) – coordinator of the project - Biblioteca Municipial de Arucas (Spain) - Vilniaus apskrities Adomo Mickeviciaus viesoji biblioteka (Lithuania) - Gradska knjiznica Ivan Vidali (Croatia) Main goal of this project was an exchange of a good practice and obtaining competences by the participants, new skills which are used currently or will be used in a future in the area of no formal education, lead by the librarians for the purpose of local migrant community integration, hence including migrants socially and counter act to any racial segregation and discrimination. Enhancing and getting new skills to use them at work caused personal, social and work development, therefore allowing to upgrade the level of library attractiveness and brought a measurable advantages for users. We can observe a greater level of local communities interest in libraries which translate in to an increased preoccupation in learning, reading and conscious social civil activity. Within the scheme, four prosperous international project meetings have been held in the libraries of selected partners. Each of the meetings guaranteed an active participation in discussions, workshops, meetings with local authorities and organisations working for migrants. There has been established a multicultural dialog. Above all, each of the partners led multiple, educational activities among local communities. Acquired knowledge, new methods and the tools of the trade as well as exploring European culture, became a base for the further work with migrants bringing the cooperation to the international arena. It also strengthen libraries role and enhanced their educational offer. They obtained renown of modern cultural institutions, opened towards cultural diversity and supporting elimination of negative social phenomenon, such as xenophobia, racism and discrimination. The project is being supported by the release of publication called "Migrate to library. Good practices" presenting local activities made by each partner of the project, and shared online under the Creative Commons (CC) licence along with short documental movie reflecting on international project meetings and trainings which is also available online.