© 2005 Mirela Munteanu

Green Library Service
 
  During all over 2003, there were registered 1.869 library visitors, 106 newly enlisted, 523 new entries, and 2,850 electronically registered titles.
There became common procedure for ECCG that the visitors are informed about all the new entries, a brief summary is being made, the format these are available, whether as hard copy, or electronically. Copies of the entry list are available at the Library, as well.
This has led to an increasing number of visitors, and sometimes this alone generated trouble. The solution was to cry for help, and the librarian got support from any of the available staff and volunteers; besides the public was being kept informed about the library working hours.
Taking into consideration the complexity of the topics, and the large number of library visitors, a full time librarian was starting with 2004.
Results: many NGO partners and associates received the genuine documents from the original info sources, thanks to the information provided by ECCG within the NGO network, such as:
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"Joint Danube Survey Report" (ICPDR Secretariat), The "Ramsar Handbooks for the Wise Use of Wetlands", Guidance Notes: Wise Use of Wetlands, EU LIFE Environment Project, and many, many others.
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Among these, many NGOs connected to a much larger range of information, the Mare Nostrum, PRO Delta NGO (Tulcea), The Environment Experts' Association (Bucharest), SPEO Bucovina (Suceava), Biotech Foundation, and many GO bodies, among which the "Apele Romane" Iasi, EPA Galati, Tulcea, etc.
  ECCG PUBLICATIONS:
ECCG Newsletter "ARGUMENT ECOLOGIC" bi-monthly A4, 6 pages.
  DEF Leaflet: ECCG contributed to the preparation of the ENGLISH version, the same contents for the entire Danube River Basin DEF members, secured its translation in Romanian and printing (1,500 COPIES)
  DEF Newsletter (3 issues) in Romanian (1.500 copies, each)
  Brochure "Nutrients and Toxic Substances- Easy To Understand"
  Poster " Live Trees Thank Us All!"
  ECCG Folders -1000 copies
Materials translated into Romanian and Xeroxed:
  LEAFLET - "Integrated Water Resource Management at a Glance" produced by Global water Partnership (GWP)
  Leaflet -"International Year of Freshwater", United Nations
  Leaflet -"Wise Use of Floodplains-Participatory Processes", Jacqui Cuff, Rural Horizons, UK.
  Leaflet "Danube Regional Project" UNDP/GEF
  Brochure for NGOs in the Danube River Rasin on "Nutrients' Reduction and Wetland Restoration"
  "Blue Danube School Kit" (Water Module)
  Leaflet "The Guidelines on EE Indicators'
  CD - ROMs were registered with the most important documents and distributed to the NGO -GO Networks (approx. 60)
Special Library Entries: a $800 Book Donation from Peace Corps Foundation, USA, thanks to the PC Volunteer assigned to ECCG. The donation consists of 23 titles, among which noteworthy are: Rachel Carson's books, Environmental Science, Environmental Geology, Vermont River, and many others.
All the materials developed by ECCG are available on our Internet page and can be consulted by anybody that has access to Internet.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

     

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