Tbilisi to Have Free Electronic Street Libraries

Saba publishing house, the Tbilisi Municipal Government, and the Presidential Fund will launch electronic libraries in the streets, parks and gardens around the metro area of Tbilisi. The new Project, City Library, will make hundreds of e-books available for download. There will be over 300 electronic library stands throughout the city. Using the Saba Reader application, the Saba Publishng House collection will be available free of charge.

The City-Library project is expected to become a literary guide to the city, in an attempt to transform the city into an open-air library.  

The electronic library planning has just begun and will be finalized in April 2017. Beginning with fifty streets named after famous Georgian writers, electronic library stands will be created listing the author’s works with QR codes to download the works. The electronic library stands will also be installed in 12 parks around the city, and at every metro station in Tbilisi.   

by Nino Gugunishvili