From 13 to 17 July, the Costuleni Public Library is hosting a summer camp for the village's children: educational, creative and recreational activities coordinated by librarian Adriana Leiba. The mayor's office funds it, parents chip in, and the children also get a snack every day.
The young district councillors have launched a book-donation drive: anyone with volumes in good condition — for children, teenagers or adults — can offer them through a message on the council's Facebook page, until July 25. The books go to a community library that the announcement does not name. The gesture lands on a local nerve: the district's book stock has thinned by a quarter over two decades.
A donation of children's books, made by writer Elena Vizir to a library in Ungheni, looks like a small gesture. Set against the official figures, it touches a nerve: over two decades, the book stock of the district's libraries has thinned by a quarter — and yet people use them more than fifteen years ago. In a district losing its young people, a library full of children is no longer a banality, but news.
