desislava ivanova, acting director of the vidin district library

PRESS RELEASE

“Training for elderly people in basic computer literacy and internet skills was launched in Mihalaki Georgiev District Library on 13 October 2010. The training is free-of-charge and targets people aged 55+, current and future library readers…”

11 October 2010Vidin

as covered by the media

Our initiative

Our first trainees...

...in their first training class!

Why did they come to us?(Based on feedback forms)

To acquire useful knowledge

To become self-confident

To be able to contact their families and friends...

OPENING OF A TRAINING CENTER

OPENING OF A TRAINING CENTER

FOR VIDIN DISTRICT

FOR VIDIN DISTRICT ANDANDCOMPUTERIZED WORKSTATIONS FOR USERS

COMPUTERIZED WORKSTATIONS FOR USERS

UNDER THE GLOBAL LIBRARIES – BULGARIA PROGRAM

UNDER THE GLOBAL LIBRARIES – BULGARIA PROGRAM

23 February 2011

The mayor of Vidin Rumen Vidov opened the new information center under the Glob@l Libraries – Bulgaria Program

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“I am convinced that in this way we foster our fellow citizens’ integration in the information society”, said the mayor of Vidin

EASY and equitable access to information: a 80-year old woman from Vidin – an excellent grade participant in the computer literacy training. // V i d i n (Vidin), No. 16, 28 Feb 2011, p. 8.

The information center was officially opened in the library and certificates were awarded to basic computer literacy training graduates.

TRAINING for elderly people... // V i d i n B r i d g e (Vidin), No. 41, 14 March 2011, p. 6.

... in computer literacy and internet skills is taking place at Mihalaki Georgiev District Library in Vidin.

What we taught them

How to search information

online

E-mail and online chatting

How the computer operates and what we need to know about it

How to work with documents

Creating, opening and saving documents Formatting, previewing and printing documents Text formatting

Analogous to the regular mail, only electronic Advantages:

Quick delivery; Saving the message until the recipient opens it; File attachment; File storage space.

Practical assignments Go to the website www.abv.bg Register a new free e-mail account. Compose and send an email to an email address, specified by your

neighbor. Read the received messages, if any. Sign out by clicking on the Sign out button.

Writing real-time messages to one or more persons simultaneously;

Video conference call.

Practical assignments

chat = бъбрене

Log inLog in Skype.Skype. Initiate a conversation in pairs on the Initiate a conversation in pairs on the topic “What was the most helpful thing I topic “What was the most helpful thing I learned todaylearned today?”.?”.

Send each other the pictures Send each other the pictures we took during our previous we took during our previous lessonlesson..

Log out from the chat and make a video connection.

What did a training lesson consist of?

•Lecture section •Practical assignments•Q&A session

80-годишната видинчанка Параскева Тодоранкина получи грамота за

начална компютърна грамотност

With a positive attitude toward new information technology…

Inquisitive, motivated...

What else?

The statistics shows that 50% of the population of the district town used the electronic census option...

We provided training facilities under the “I Can More” Program.

Our most recent initiative is “A Reading Room in the Open”.

Thank you for your attentionThank you for your attention!!

Desislava Ivanova Desislava Ivanova

Mihalaki Georgiev Mihalaki Georgiev

District Library, Vidin District Library, Vidin

ContactsContacts::phone:phone: 0888 864 979 0888 864 979e-mail: e-mail: rbmg@abv.bgrbmg@abv.bg