Rositsa Petrova - Vasileva
She
was born on July 1, 1963. She graduated Vocational
school of construction and architecture in Bourgas,
State Library Institute /”Library
sciences and bibliography”/1985, “St Kliment
Ohridski” Sofia University /”Pedagogic” and
“Psychology”/ -1990, specialized in „Finance”
at “St. St. Cyril and Methodii” University – Veliko
Tarnovo.
She has been working in the library since 1985 in “Inquiry and informational” department and in “Books about the region” department. She wrote some valuable bibliographies from the series “Eminent writers of the Bulgarian national revival from Sliven region” and other medleys. She was appointed on the post of a director of the library on April 9, 1992 as she won a competition for that post. Since then she works hardly for approving the library as a modern culture and informational centre with a European image. She made efforts for saving the library’s building from restitution by the help of good lawyers and consultants and she won the case. She organized the reconstruction of the ex musical school by the help of sponsors and established a new children’s department in 1992. She got in touch with the British council – Sofia and a centre, helping English learning process was opened in 1995, which later became a Centre for books in foreign languages. The library became a fast developing informational centre and it became a regional library for Sliven and Yambol regions in 2000. She worked up more than 20 projects of donating organizations, which helped the supplying of the library with modern technical equipment; implemented a project for automation of the main library processes, many books have been bought and many valuable issues, medleys and symposiums have been printed. The library keeps in touch with the Regional library of Gera /Germany/, the Town library of Pecs /Hungary, the town libraries of Dunajska sreda /Slovakia/ and Kuopio /Finland/, the International children’s festival „Zmejeve dechje igre”/Novi sad, Serbia and Monte Negro/, the Andersen festival /Sestri Levante, Italy/, the International festival „Bibliobraz”/Moscow, Russia/, the European Agency for Development /Genoa, Italy/, Culture foundation „Aida” /Verona, Italy/ etc. The library started working up projects, sponsored by the European Commission. The directress worked up projects for establishing a regional Eurodesk centre in the library and including the library in a national informational network for disseminating information about the EU and implementing a project on the communication strategy of Bulgarian government for joining of Bulgaria to the EU. She was the initiator of the National Children’s Books Festival, which take place every year and many Bulgarians and foreign guests took part in its program. The library’s activities have a main part in the cultural life of the town and the region recently. It was an idea of the directress that the library first from all the institutions of its kind started to operate on the system of „vicarious budgets”. Her efforts in the last two years were directed to implementing the project, sponsored by the Economic Investment Fund for building another library’s building, which will allow carrying out new activities and services.