« You read »: Kragujevac librarians support protests and student demands – Culture every Friday strike
Like every Friday from February 2025. year, when the students of Kragujevac and Serbia first subsided work in the National Library « Vuk Karadžić in the National Library of State Faculties and Universities in Serbia for almost six months, with the aim of meeting the requests that everyone is already well known.
Those with transparents « read », « Librarians NBKGs are coming to Fridays in front of the City Center and holding 16 minutes of silence for the victims in Novi Sad and thus reminds them of the student’s protest and (not) fulfilling their requirements.
– Librarians in this way, they symbolically stand by students and join all the circumstances and facts in Novi Sad, which 1. November killed one more person, they are discussed for today from the Library of « Vuk Karadzic » to protest.
Even today, librarians and librarians from all departments and branches gathered in front of the central library building (city home) at 11:52 and stood sixteen minutes in silence for sixteen victims in Novi Sad.
– First of all, in this way, as much as he was symbolically, as well as educational workers and other social groups, and that there are no more than six months, but also to invite other cultural employees and all Kragujevci to join students in all their requirements The actions reminds the librarian Nikola Stanković.
Stanković: Legislation does not know the Institution of Solidarna Strike
The academic community, also reminds Stanković, is one of the most active users and associates for decades, practically from when there is a university in this city.
« All generations of students, so in this fight, came and come to our library, we meet them every day, we know them, we always cooperate well with them, he points out well, he points out.
According to him, students are the most numerous and most active groups of users of Kragujevac National Libraries, especially at the Central Borrowing Department and in the library reading room.
– And we, in addition to agreeing with their requirements and presented on the socio-political situation in the country, we could not look into their eyes tomorrow, without any kind of support in their struggle. We want to know that we are here for them and with them. In the contacts we had so far, I would say that the students recognized this, stakeholder.
So far, it is not forgotten from, they encountered a comprehension and support of Kragujevčan, who visit the library, and some of them join them in front of the library in sixteenth-minute silence.
– Since our legislation does not know the solidarity institution or some similar workkeeping, in addition to the demands of students, we include several requirements related to the specific problems of our facilities in which we work and increasing employee earnings that are now below the national average. Negotiations with the employer and the founder in this regard are underway, it ends its statement for today Nikola Stanković.
Vuckovic: Our strength is in will and perseverance, not in a number of
His colleague Gordana Vuckovic from the NBKG Homeland Department agrees with him.
– Most employees in the National Library « Vuk Karadžić » is on strike every Friday, supporting students and their requirements. We also have our requirements: we are in a building overloaded by weight of books, but also devices of two gyms. We demanded to check the safety of the entire object. By the way, our library is the oldest public library in Serbia, which does not have its own roof over the head, because since its founding in 1866. the subpoariates Gordana Vuckovic.
Every Friday, about twenty come in front of the city’s home, with two banners, « We are really stored by the Simple Constitution), but also to persistently holding its attitude by supporting students and » you read « librarians and the old seal of the Kragujevac library.
– So gathered, a sixteenth-minute silence pays mail to the citizens in Novi Sad. There are us a little, because we have been decimated by a long ban on employment, but our strength is in will and perseverance, not in numbers. The passers-by, mostly with approval, are looking at us, and join us. Of course, there are also those who are crossed, they give up, cursed. We do not react to this, because we still promote some other values, reminds this our interlocutor.
She is happy because as veteran and in librarianship and political life stands with a shoulder with a generation of his children, adding that « we remembered the 1990s, sanctions, the destruction policy of Milosevic and, in the end, bombing. »
– We left them alone while the 1990s gave shoes around the Kragujevac streets, demanding changes and a better life. Now they are young people who have their own attitude and are not afraid to defend him. Then we failed to make a better state, but when today I see my young colleagues and students, I have to move – we did not move, Zabaisa for today, Grdana Vuckovic.
And, I’ll see you next Friday in front of the National Library.
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