From the 1st to the 5th July 2019 Dr. Silviya Naydenova, director of the Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and Milkana Lishkova took part in More Than Library Erasmus+ STT Week (International Training Week for library specialists), organized by Dare 2 Succeed in Timisoara, Romania. The main aim of the event was to put the stress on the changing role of the libraries in the universitites and the academic organizations by a new definition of the library specialists according to the needs of the users. Therefore these institutions have to become "more than libraries", which sole activity is to provide books and materials for reading, and to implement new models for planing, promotion and work in order to achieve better efficiency. At the meeting participated 6 specialists from different university libraries in Bulgaria, Great Britain and Swittzerland. First all the participants presented their institutions and achievements. The representatives of the Central Library made an multimedia presentation to present in details to the foreign colleagues the history, projects, initiatives and achievements of the organization, as well as their digital collections. The training week was officially opened by Iris A. Mihai, Ph.D., director of Dare 2 Succeed. The second and the third day Alexandra Gruicin, business consultant and instructor, explained different model, management, analysis, communication and planning methods, which were implemented in practice by the participants in order to solve real existing problems and tasks - OPERA, flipchart, etc. On the forth day, in a meeting with Toma Grozavescu, marketing specialist, were discussed the different communication channels and methods for presentation in the social networks, as well as their options - Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, etc. On the last day, under the guidance of Simona Herczeg, researcher at the West University of Timisoara and cultural operator in various local and national projects, the participants prepared and presented in groups their ideas for a library project. At the end of the whole event all the participants had the chance to see the new library of the Politehnica University Timisoara.  At the end of 2014 it was transfered in a new building, which had been designed especially for a library. There the guests see in details the almost entirely automated book borrowing system, the options for study groups, the modern library compact mobile shelving, the special room in retro style for the preservation of manuscripts and old printed collections, etc. After that all the participants in the training week received certificate of attendance in the programme.      

On the 26th June 2019 (Wednesday) in the conference hall of the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" in front of publishers of scientific papers was officially presented a prototype for Citation index of the publications by Bulgarian authors (social sciences). The event is a part of the project "Design and development of a prototype of the information system Citation index of the publications by Bulgarian authors (social sciences)", funded by the Scientific Research Fund (2017; contract № ДН 15 / from the 11th December 2017). The round table was opened by Assoc. Prof. Anna Angelova, Director of the University Library "St. Kliment Ohridski", and Assoc. Prof. Eliza Stefanova, Vice-rector of the Sofia University, that are also part of the project team which develops the citation index. The head of the scientific team, Prof. Olga Harizanova, presented the activities accomplieshed in the first stage, the relevance of the problem, as well as the results from the conducted studies of the Bulgarian and foreign practices and the relevant raised issues. Ph.D. Bilyana Yavrukova presented in details the designed model of the citation index, which will be tested and developed. At the end of the meeting there was a discussion about the relevant questions, connected with the development of the prototype - for example, the transliteration of the names and titles, the preparation of the metadata, the presentation of the different types of materials and the links between them, etc. The first test of the prototype will be on 2 specially selected titles, which meet all the obligatory requirements for scientiic papers - "Papers of BAS. Humanities" and "Pravna misal". The next information meeting in the frames of the project will be on the 26th September in the hall "Prof. Marin Drinov" in the building of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. At this event the prototype will be presented in front of authors of scientic papers.  

On the 21st May 2019 the Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences officially presented in front of colleagues, guests and journalists the two most recent valuable donations that was acquired at the end end of the last year - the personal library of the Bulgarian ethnologist Assia Popova (1934-2018) and books by the pulishing house "Zahariy Stoyanov". The event is a part of the programme for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, which is celebrated this year. The event was opened by the director Dr. Silviya Naydenova. In her speech she pointed out that the library itself was created and developed exactly thanks to the donations and therefore the provision of these collections is like a continuation of this noble Bulgarian tradition. The Assia Popova's nephew Assoc. Prof. Todor Popov and the publishing house "Zahariy Stoyanov" received certificates for their act. Thank to a specially arranged exhibition all the guests and interested people could see some of the most interesting and important books from these two donations, which will soon be available for use by readers. Associate Professor Petko Hristov, director of the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, spoke about Assia Popova and her library. The books from the publishing house were presented by the editor-in-chief, Mr. Todor Koruev. Professor Lisbeth Lyubenova, Director of the Scientific Archives of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, officially received from the Central Library several specialized scientific materials and archives discovered in the documents from the donated library. All the guests could also learn more about Assia Popova thanks to the presentation made by her nephew Assoc. Prof. Todor Popov, as well as from the memories of her colleagues and relatives who had worked with her and knew her very well.