Printed & Electronic Collection
The Library’s collection is classified according to the Dewey Decimal Classification System. The printed collection covers various thematic categories and it is constantly enriched with donations and purchases.
Children’s / Young Adults’ Department
The children’s collection includes:
- Information material.
- Supplementary books on school subjects and educational packages.
- Scientific and literary books.
- Foreign language books.
Adults’ Department
The adult collection is divided into the Main Collection, the Reference Collection and the Special Collections.
The Main Collection includes scientific books of all thematic categories, Greek and foreign literature books as well.
The Reference Collection includes:
- Encyclopedias & Dictionaries.
- Brochures.
- Magazine Collection & Local Press.
This material cannot be borrowed and can be used only in the reading room.
The Journals Collection consists of titles published in Greece and abroad. The collection includes the award-winning by the Academy of Athens historical magazine Thessalian Diary and the scientific journal Trikala, an annual philological historical folklore magazine.
In the Special Collections there are available old publications exclusively for studying within the Library. The oldest editions of the Special Collections are the works: Athens and Attica: Journal of a Residence There (1836), On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Right by Rousseau, published by Garnier Freres (1873), [Traveling Notes of Macedonia, Epirus, the New Boundary Line and Thessaly] by Nikolaos Th. Schinas (1886), as well as the [History of the Greek Nation] (1896) by Konstantinos Paparigopoulos, a Greek historian, who is considered the founder of modern Greek historiography.
In addition, the collection includes two copies of the [Rigas’ Charta (Map) of Greece], one of the most important works of the Modern Greek Enlightenment by Rigas Velestinlis, who was a Greek writer, political thinker and pioneer of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire.
The electronic collection consists of a CD-ROM with educational software for primary school students and students with learning difficulties. The students have the opportunity to consolidate the curriculum through a specially designed series of fun exercises, as the software acts as an adjunct to school teaching.
The training packages are:
I write simply – I read easily
An application that is a language development tool for first grades primary school students as well as for students with learning difficulties, parents and language development professionals, such as speech therapists, special educators, and psychologists.
Images-Words and Categories
An educational game for kindergarten and first grades primary school students as well as children with learning difficulties to support their language development.
Shape, Size, Color, Space
A language development tool for children who have difficulties in speech and/or understanding shapes, sizes, colors, space, opposite concepts.
Dysalex’s CB-Pom
Funny animated stories about dyslexia. Includes games/educational activities aimed at addressing children’s learning difficulties.
Rays
A package of 112 educational programs designed for preschool children.
