Furniture for Berat city library
Vexhi Buharaja is the main public library in the city of Berat, serving its residents since 1973. Sadly, a lack of adequate furniture and fittings for its reading rooms and archive meant the library had to remain closed to the public after its refurbishment in 2016. Shelves were overflowing and many of the library’s 35,000 books were being stored on the floor.
€121,000 investment
Now, thanks to a donation by TAP, visitors can once again use all three reading rooms and the archive has been equipped with sufficient shelving to store its many books.
TAP also equipped the library with a modern fire protection system and donated 400 books (all new titles) to further enrich the library’s collection.
At a small ceremony in March 2018 to celebrate its re-opening, a group of students from Berat were the first to receive new membership cards.