What are the main tasks?
Typical activities for a volunteer are:
 Participation in the everyday tasks connected with the librarian job (library archives’ selection and succession, archives’ security with magnetic strips and bar codes, stamping and labeling, classification, ordering different sorts of archives on the shelves, operation with modern library system, direct service, promotion of library archives. etc).
 Finding out info on request (browsers, local database, bibliographic information).
 Help with using internet café and preparing web-site of Mediateka.
 Promotion of events taking place in Mediateka.
 Holding „Language Cafe” – the conversations in mother tongue of volunteer for local community.
 Help in preparing educational classes for children in MultiCentrum cooperation programme.
 Help in preparing and organizing exhibitions and cultural events.
Additional volunteers will help in new-open café BIOLADA, where people can buy fiar traid products, gain knowledge about ecology and balanced consumption. Also in café will be giving classes about global education (workshops, simulation and strategy game)
The activity will start from 1.00 pm to 7.00 pm (Monday to Friday). Weekends will be days off.

A. Project environment:

Wroclaw, the capital of Lower Silesia is both one of the oldest and of the most beautiful towns in Poland.
Wroclaw's guests remember her mainly as a lively cultural centre and a unique city. Double identity - Polish and German, borderland traditions, Czech, Austrian, and Jewish traditions put influence on the center's character. These days the municipality prepares to the UEFA EURO 2012. More information you can find on http://www.wroclaw.pl/ms/english/

Mediateka - a library for youth is a cultural institution in the historic town centre of Wroclaw, that directs its offer to the young city-dwellers, enabling through free of charge access to the internet, great multimedia sources and also workshops organised from the library's house initiative, exhibitions, cultural events granting both intellectual and social development.

Mediateka wishes to invite European volunteers with conviction that their presence will give a particular cultural character to the institution - direct contact of Wroclaw youth with the volunteer is going to be a chance for genuine intercultural exchange Mediateka it can serve young volunteers as a particular place allowing for personal development, exchange of experiences, facing condition of work amongst youth not less than people of different backgrounds, nationalities or age. Mediateka is also a chance for initiation for modern world of multimedia technologies.
All service and entertainment events of Mediateka are well directed towards the readers of special care - youth with less opportunities that willingly participates in them.

B. Proposed activities for EVS volunteers:

To a certain extent the project with a volunteering person is going to be putting the institution's educative goals into life and an important intercultural experience for the volunteers themselves.
Volunteer as a person not identified with the party of librarian addressees will give young people an opportunity to actually and essentially acknowledge other culture. Participation in the Polish language course at the University together with ERASMUS Programme students will also be the intercultural part of the project. The library's workers are going to get the volunteers into the Polish environment apart from the project's schedule.

In Mediateka there is full-time employed staff in the number of 11 and 4 employees of Multicentrum. Ms. Joanna Litwin will be directly involved in the project's realization; also she is the person responsible for individual coordination of the volunteering person and their assigned tasks, the Mediateka manager and other staff involved in cooperation with the volunteer.

In Mediateka volunteering person will have space and time to make his meetings with the youth visiting the library and in want of linguistic and cultural knowledge of the volunteer's country. Volunteer will have an opportunity to present his own ideas and projects to the Mediateka workers. Owing to Mediateka - the volunteer will have an opportunity to turn out to remain active on a wider scale than just only a local community.

Workshops held by the Meetings' House will be proposed to welcome the volunteer as a support for intercultural education.

The intercultural dimension of the project is going to be deepened through everyday together with volunteers from the other European countries. Through joined initiatives of the former and the Meetings' House they are going to get together during dinners, hanging out, or during as well organized as these, intercultural evenings.

1. Participate in the everyday tasks connected with the library job. For example:

- Getting hold of know-how of library archives' selection procedure and in succession : their individual preparation,
- Learning to operate a modern library system ALEPH,
- Direct service opportunity ( this will be a chance for everyday contact with people of different ages and backgrounds),
- Caring for active promotion of library archives( among other things we expose other kind of books, for instance National Geographic awarded films, a book on CD-format, bestsellers, best music throughout 2007, Mediateka recommends…).
- Help with using an internet cafe and preparing the www of Mediateka

2. Coordinate voluntary project of free of charge language conversations with foreigners in sc. "Language Café" (having classes, participation, receiving of register and making the meetings).

3. Help with artistic exhibitions and cultural events organization (inventing the event's topic, promotion, coordination, help in setting up for example of an exhibition or preparation of vernissage).

4. Help prepare educative classes for children of under 15 as a part of the Multicentrum cooperation programme.

In the mean time, Mediateka look forward to our 2008 season. In Autumn Mediateka celebrate Lower-Silesia Festiwal of Science, festiwal of prose Season. In Spring Mediateka is planning more events: Festiwal Pop-Lit, "Japan today and tomorrow. Cullture, Art, Economics. Day of Japanese Culture, Festival of Comics, Festival of Cartoon`s Narration, Living Library. In 24 June we celebrate mediateka's birthday, and in July we supporting the International Movie Festiwal Era Nowe Horyzonty.

In June 2008 we plan to join the City of Wroclaw Feast celebration proposing the event connected with our city (multimedia presentations, contests, building models characteristic of Wroclaw with K'NEX, making a postcard and arrangement of the Lower Silesia capital anthem).

Volunteer can with the start of the project communicate with mentor, coordinator of the project and workers of the hosting organization in English. From the beginning of the project a volunteer is going to be granted a Polish language course.

There is time for the volunteer to realize his own ideas, the headway of which can be granted from help from the hosting organization's workers, with specific support from the project's coordinator's side.
Volunteer is going to be engaged in 30 hours a week schedule, usually from Monday to Friday. Circumstantial engagement of volunteer during the weekend will be associated with special tasks. It will be agreed each and every time and will have equivalence in the free days off work. Polish language course is going to be on Monday and Wednesday afternoons (2times 1,5h.) Individual lessons are going to be registered at the volunteer and the Polish language teacher. Within the project schedule the volunteer is going to have organizing meetings with Mediateka workers ad mentor.

All days off work in Poland( national, church holidays) are going to be free days for the volunteer. Every week there are going to two days free for the volunteer. In case of special events urging for volunteer's involvement during the weekend, volunteer is going to get additional free days allowing rest after having done the task. Every month the volunteer will have additional two free days to take use immediately, or in further notice agreed upon with the mentor and hosting organization.

C. Volunteer profiles and recruitment process:

Mediateka would like to host young volunteers not under 18 years old. Creative with initiative and willing to act. Before coming here volunteer should know the specific kind of work that Mediateka offers and activities connected with this place.

The volunteer should have to get to know the profile of Mediateka-which is a place connecting library and cultural center. Work is divided into typical,normal monoton work -dailylife of library and animation`s activities. The surrandings of the volunteer are mainly going to be books so it would have been nice if the volunteer has a willing to learn Polish. It would have helped him/her to act and feel good in world of literature and environment of library.

D. Risk prevention, protection and safety:

The volunteer will get a personal mentor in Mediateka that will be directly responsible for coordination of the project. It its going to be one of the employed persons in Mediateka- Mss Joannê Litwin. Apart from her there is going to be a head of Mediateca responsible for contact with volunteer- Ms Anna Janus. Volunteer can count as well on each and every employed person in the Mediateka that would sharethe daily work with him/her.

In case of conflict there is going to be as well person responsible for coordinating the project in Coordinating organization, which is in this case Angelus Silesius House- Ms Anna Slawczewa- the EVS Coordinator.

Additionally in case of emergancy at the very beginning of volunteer EVS in Mediateka she/he is going to pass throught workshop about safety at work. She/he will be tought how to react and act in case of emergency , how to keep the working place clean, what to do and what to to do. He/she will learn about crisis managment according to work in Mediateka.