The Jēkabpils Municipality Main Library
Country: Latvia
Contact: Māra Bitāne, mara.bitane@edu.jekabpils.lv
Description: The Jēkabpils Municipality Main Library serves as a regional center of culture and information, overseeing a comprehensive network of libraries throughout the municipality. The network consists of the Main Library, 26 structural units (including the Jēkabpils City Library), and 7 departments or service points. In 2025, the total expenditure for ensuring library operations was 1,245,298 EUR.
Type of library: Library service with branch libraries
Population served: Between 10.000 and 100.000
- Activities for children and young adults
- Activities for seniors
- Activities in cooperation with other organizations
- Book presentations (also meeting with authors)
- Celebration of ephemeris (Day of the library
- Conferences and seminars
- Digitalization and Preservation
- Exhibitions
- Handcraft workshops
- Health Literacy (healthcare workshops…)
- Lifelong Learning programs
- Literacy
- Literary workshops
- Local culture (local heritage)
- Reading clubs (Book clubs)
- Reading promotion
- Storytelling
- Activities for children and young adults
- Activities for seniors
- Cooperation with other organizations
- Digital Literacy
- Digitalization and Preservation
- e-Reading
- Exchange of ideas and expertise
- Exchange of information
- Exchange of resources
- Exhibitions
- Information Literacy programs
- Joint conferences and seminars
- Library services for people with special needs
- Lifelong Learning programs
- Literacies (non-formal education)
- Planning of new library building
- Professional visits
- Reading promotion
- Social media
- Storytelling
- Volunteer programs
Languages spoken by staff: Latvian, Russian, German
Languages spoken by patrons: Latvian, English
Preferred countries for cooperation: Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Estonia, Austria, Norway, LIthuania
Searching partners for European program: Yes
Participating in any European Union program: No