Professional paper

The Role of Bibliotherapy in Public Libraries

Iva Klak Mršić orcid.org/0000-0001-5885-9692 ; Zagreb City Libraries, Zagreb, Croatia
Keti Krpan orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-8177 ; Zagreb City Libraries
Jelena Pisačić orcid.org/0000-0001-6710-9041 ; Zagreb City Libraries

Supplements: 7 - Mrsic Krpan Pisacic.pdf

Abstract

Zagreb City Libraries is the largest network of public libraries in Croatia, and according to the annual library work reports, the most numerous
users of libraries are children aged 7 to 14. A literary text is the basis of all programs and activities created by librarians at the Children and
Young Adults Sections in the Zagreb City Libraries. Application of developmental bibliotherapy encourages and develops
reading literacy in library users. Selected literary texts, with the help from professionals, shape the way of thinking and affect behaviour and as
such can help in solving problems that some individuals face. By introducing bibliotherapy, public libraries, are getting another
socially useful purpose as places of interaction between the literary text and library users, with the purpose of creating socially and emotionally
competent individuals who comprise a healthy society.

Keywords

bibliotherapy; library; librarians; reading

Hrčak ID:

266364

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/266364

Publication date:

6.12.2021.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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