All English-Language Books Now in Library!

At Linqua Bookstore at Lugansk Shevchenko University, 10 August 2010, our final book shopping for your Partnership Grant. More great books for our Library!

Natalia and I made our last trip to Lugansk to buy books. This time we went to Linqua Bookstore, an independent English bookseller at the Lugansk Shevchenko University. Sergei, the manager, met us and we took it from there. It was a wonderful selection, and we piled up another 50 books, DVDs and videos, all of which I want to look at and read, even the "How English Works" book and things like the "Welcome to English" series and the "Headway" series, also with videos, DVDs and guides for beginner to intermediate levels. "Super Songs" with a DVD looked great too, as did "Irish Fairy Tales."

We also spotted some cherished literature we couldn't pass up, like Rebecca, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, A Kiss Before Dying, and Tales of King Aurthur. Some of these had DVDs with them, and then we added a few more, including Lord of the Rings, Romeo and Juliet, and Augustus. We're thinking of having an English film and discussion series for the Library, like the Boyd County Public Library in Kentucky, which has recently agreed to be a "sister" library with the Starobilsk Library and share information and ideas.

So now, dear friends and partners of the Starobilsk Library, we have a very nice and well-rounded collection of English language books. The librarians are working on registering them, and English Club members, who LOVE the collection and can't wait to start digging in, will continue with the translations. By September, and after school starts up again, the library will be ready for a big public celebration to let everyone know about the collection. I will keep you posted. We can't thank you enough!