New bookstore to open its doors in Cahul

A new bookstore is to be inaugurated on Saturday July 7 in Cahul City, being the 5th one after those in Hancesti, Falesti, Edinet and Taul (Donduseni County). The event is part of the National Project “Towards Culture and Civilization through Reading”. According to Claudia Balaban, chief of the National Service of the International Youth and Children Book Council, the Cahul bookstore belongs to “PRO NOI” Book Distribution Society and is the 23rd within this bookstore network. The modern-standard bookshop will sell over 10 thousand titles of books in different languages, issued by publishing houses from Moldova, Romania, Russia and other countries, as well as office supplies, computers and IT parts, music and movies. The organisers also prepared a book donation estimated at over 35.000 lei, meant for all the lyceum and public libraries in Cahul. Offered with the support of Soros-Moldova Foundation, Book Foundation of Moldova, “PRO NOI” Book Distribution Society and “Cartea-Chisinau” Stock Society, the donation includes a copy of the Illustrated Explanatory Romanian Dictionary for each library. The manifestation agenda includes a meeting with writers Vasile Romanciuc, Claudia Partole, Mihai Cimpoi, Ion Hadarca, Arcadie Suceveanu, and the kids will gladly leave with a book offered by the organisers and signed by the preferred writers. In July and August, “Cartea-Chisinau” will set up a bookshop in Pepeni village (Sangerei district), and the “PRO NOI” Book Distribution Society will open one in “Alecu Russo” State University of Balti. By the end of the year, 20 more libraries will open their doors in Soroca, Drochia, Comrat, Causeni, Orhei and Rezina. The National Project “Towards Culture and Civilization through Reading” is a campaign to promote reading and books, launched in March 2007 in Edinet and is aimed at providing the school and public libraries with the necessary literature, and at expanding the bookshop network countrywide in order to facilitate the access to books. This project is motivated by the fact that the books kept in school and public libraries are too old or obsolete and haven’t been replaced by new publications for many years now. In addition, more than half of the country’s population find hard to buy books as there are no bookshops in their region or the purchasing power is low.