Practical
The whole project is low budget. We use recycled wood, donation materials, volunteer work.
Lifestyle-wise we are trying as much as possible green, non-consumer and sustainable living and working.
We only bike, no cars, mopeds and such.
Books people exchange, donate, borrow…
even take and don’t bring back. (like
in the real library, just no fines
here :))
We regularly refill the boxes with
written off books from two local
public libraries we cooperate with.
As they are obliged to buy round 300
newly published books every year, they
have to discard older books and are
happy to give them new life in our
library.
Books we offer are mostly in Croatian language, some in Serbian, Slovenian, English, German, few in Scandinavian… that is the variety that we can find here.
We recently placed open call to our networks to send us books by snail mail in all the imaginable languages. In Arabic, Spanish, Japanese… you name it.
De-Balkanization:
As there are few thousands of
foreigners living on the island,
practicaly from whole EU and wider,
cause of language barrier, they have
no access to the richnes of the Balkan
literature through history.
We are highly interested in the books
by Balkan writers translated into
foreign languages. From classics like
Ivo Andric and Mesa Selimovic, to the
moderns like Bekim Sejranovic and
Dubravka Ugresic, to mention just few.
We got offered free books (forgotten in the cellars and storages) by some publishers if we pay the postage fee. That we can not afford at the moment.
We recently started Rawschach Publishers, small project where we publish local handwritten books. Books for our library, small edition, more or less 10, all home printed and hand binded.
Practical highlights
If you want to send us books in various languages, here the address.
Artfarm Mola Blaca
(phone +385 913 966 828)
Radosevica Dvor 7
Dol
21460 Stari Grad
Croatia
Please the cheapest slowest snail mail, just in case put our phone number in the address, So postman Mario can call us, and we meet him to fetch the mail.