30.000 SEK. For this amount of money, Lund’s City Library will buy extra English books in the coming months. Visitors are welcome to suggest on which books the money should be spend.
The collection of books in the City Library is always gradually updated and enlarged, but the main improvement is now that an extra sum of 30.000 SEK has been allocated to the English section alone.
“There are various groups who read in English: foreigners who come here to work and of course students and teachers connected to the university, but also Swedish people who like to read in English just as much as in Swedish,” says Maria Ekdahl, one of three librarians responsible for updating the collection of fiction in English.
“We often get requests at the desk for books in English that haven’t yet been translated into Swedish. People come here for example if they have read a review of the books in British or American papers,” Maria Ekdahl continues.
The new English books will arrive at the library in due time. “It will be a gradual process, but we plan to get the extra books during and after the summer,” says Maria Ekdahl.
“If people have suggestions for which books we should buy, they can send us an e-mail, visit us or call us.”
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