Gh. Asachi County Library is a public library that meets the educational needs of Iasi local community. Also, we provide a proper venue for social and leisure activities dedicated different age groups, such as: – the project: If you cannot come to the library, the library comes to you! (work with the volunteers of library and other volunteers of NGOs partners); – the Voluntar @ BJIasi project, which aims to develop volunteer’ programs by forming and maintaining a core of volunteers of all ages to engage, along with librarians, in community programs; etc.
All the services (cultural and information services; reading, information and entertainment service; community information and bibliographic research; cultural-educational and informational programs; methodological assistance and guidance services in the public libraries network of the county (methodical meetings, coordination of the process of setting up electronic catalogs, annual cultural and educational programs, exchange of good practices, editing of specialized papers) provided by Gh.
Asachi are free and are thought to come to the aid of your patrons: borrow books, DVDs, newspapers, magazines, free internet access, photocopying etc. Our library has a total of 103 employees devided in our 7 locations – branches around the city. Most of them are members of the National Associaton of Public Librarians and Libraries in Romania [http://anbpr.org.ro/ ]. Also we have concluded many partnerships with numerous NGOs and cultural institutions in Iasi.