Difference between revisions of "Minka Skaberne Library for the blind and visually impaired"
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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 == |
Revision as of 02:40, 2 March 2018