"Mircea Radina" Town Library, Segarcea
About
"Mircea Radina" Town Library, Segarcea was founded in 1923 at the initiative of the members of the Dolj Student Circle, as it is mentioned in the cultural chronicle of C.D. Fortunescu in Revista Arhivelor ( The Archives Magazine), in the beginning having a number of 164 volumes. The headquarters of the library was inaugurated in 1926, by the name of "Ferdinand I" Communal Library. After World War II, the library functioned as the Segarcea Communal Library.
Starting with 1951, it became the Segarcea Regional Central Library until 1968 when the commune was declared a town and the library was named the Segarcea Town Library.
At the initiative of the library staff, following the report of the Legal Department of Local Administration, the Dolj County Council, by decision no.78 / 19.10.2000, agreed to assign the name of the writer Mircea Radina - awarded with the title Son of Segarcea - to the library of Segarcea.
Source: http://www.primariasegarcea.ro/oras/cultura-invatamant.php
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