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− | The [[Minka Skaberne Library for the blind and visually impaired]], Slovenia's only Braille library, was established in [[established::1918]] | + | The [[Minka Skaberne Library for the blind and visually impaired]], Slovenia's only Braille library, was established in [[established::1918]]. Its roots date back to World War I, when many soldiers returned home from the battlefields with impaired eyesight, and [[Minka Skaberne]] (1882–1965), who had learnt teaching the blind in Vienna and Graz, began lecturing and laid foundations of a Slovene library of the blind. |
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+ | In August 2014, the library moved to a new location in the very centre of Ljubljana. Besides the storage and lending of books and other materials, the library houses a modern sound studio, a gallery, a theatre hall and a reading room, thus becoming a new cultural centre. | ||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
*[http://www.kss-ess.si/knjiznica Minka Skaberne Library website] (in Slovenian) | *[http://www.kss-ess.si/knjiznica Minka Skaberne Library website] (in Slovenian) | ||
− | *[https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minka_Skaberne] | + | *[https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minka_Skaberne Minka Skaberne on Wikipedia] |
*[http://www.openhouseslovenia.org/objekt/knjiznica-slepih-in-slabovidnih-minke-skaberne The library presened within the Open House Slovenia project] | *[http://www.openhouseslovenia.org/objekt/knjiznica-slepih-in-slabovidnih-minke-skaberne The library presened within the Open House Slovenia project] | ||
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[[Category:Special libraries]] | [[Category:Special libraries]] | ||
[[Category:Venues]] | [[Category:Venues]] | ||
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