The library that they envision and want to create in Ayia Napa, was presented to the Mayor by the children of the two departments of the XNUMXth grade of the Primary School of Ayia Napa "Antonis Tsokkos".
A written announcement of the Municipality states that at the Municipal Palace "the children presented a study-research they conducted regarding the libraries of the world, in the course" Library, books "noting that the library of the future is a necessary building for the Municipality".
The students of the second department characteristically stated that “the library we want to build in our Municipality does not want to be with dusty warehouses and innumerable shelves, a library where people will only borrow books. In the library of the future we want people to go to rest, to be entertained, to listen to music and to read e-books ".
They also said that they want "the library they dream of to be close to their school, to have a view of the sea, for children to be able to go as soon as they finish school and for people to be able to go to forget their stress and problems, to have fun and have fun ".
The children also "dream of the library of the future being square like a castle to gain the attention of passers-by, its entrance to be glass and the stairs to be stone books, in the courtyard to have stone books and a small fountain, while the yard be circular enriched with various plant species. The children also want the library to be open until the morning hours so that its "watchful friends" can also visit it, while they want to have employees in each room, volunteers and with a fee, to help the people ".
For their part, the E2 class children of the school stated that they would like their own library of the future "to include many rooms - magic boxes containing stations with various activities and equipped with multimedia, such as computers, monitors, televisions. , video games and music listening devices. They also want the walls to be decorated with books, the books to be placed on shelves with beautiful and strange shapes and to be sorted and passed to computers so that they can be easily located ".
The children also want "as outside the library to have space for graffiti, painting and seats with tables while the transition from inside to outside for children to be done with a slide on a space with balls. The students also want the library to be housed in the "Museum of the Sea" to help "as they said" in the comprehensive development and entertainment of the citizens and at the same time to improve the tourist product of Ayia Napa ".
The Mayor of Ayia Napa listened to the views and ideas of the students, described as "very interesting their suggestions" and "assured that he will put them before the Municipal Council to be taken into account, especially now that the Municipal Library has been relocated to the Municipal Museum" Sea ».
Source: KYPE