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Melissa for hellenism: 2 years – our events in Switzerland

(shorty in English)

Des manifestations sur l’histoire grecque et le philhellénisme, sur notre tradition, des projections des documentaires historiques, des conférences des scientifiques renommés, des expositions de livres rares de notre collection, un atelier d’iconographie chrétienne, une projet-pilote de bibliothèque de prêt au cœur de la ville de Lausanne, des collaborations divers avec les associations grecques et philhelléniques et les autorités grecques et suisses, composent le mosaïque des activités de notre association ces 2 premières années depuis sa fondation.
Remerciements à nos membres et ami(e)s en Suisse, en Grèce et dans d’autres pays pour ce chaleureux accueil et soutien.

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Le mosaïque de nos activités durant la période 2017-2019
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Lausanne | The bee joins the ladybird in the lending library project “Book finds Reader”

Our association Melissa (=bee in Greek) joins Coccinelle (=ladybird in French), a cozy coffee shop in the center of Lausanne, in order to share with the public selected books from our collection.

The library includes about 150 books in recent editions, in English and French, selected out of the 5’000 titles of our collection. A variety of subjects is offered, from all-time classics of world literature to studies on important questions of our changing world, such as artificial intelligence, relationships, work, children.

The books of our library on the 1st floor of Coccinelle café

These printed books are presented on the shelves of Coccinelle café. The book catalog is an OPAC (Open Public Access Catalog) system, easy to use, accessible from a smartphone. No need for any intervention of the coffee shop’s employees.

The homepage of our online catalog

After a single registration, you receive a unique “patron ID” number with which you can borrow, in a few simple clics, the books you want for a period of 14 days. Then, you return them to the coffee shop, without any fee.

Project start: Monday, 25th February, 2019.

Access to the lending library catalog

User guide

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Exhibition of ancient books of our association at Le Rosay

On September 28th, the Institute Le Rosey (Rolle, VD) held for the second time its annual Bookfête, celebrating books, reading and writing.

On this occasion, Melissa was invited with a guest exhibition of rare books printed in Switzerland in the 16th century. Among them, the first edition of Plato’s complete works (Geneva, 1580), Appian of Alexandria’s Roman History (Geneva, 1592), and two pocket editions – the Iliad and Eschyle’s tragedies.

Curious students and staff had the opportunity to learn interesting details about printing techniques and about the persons involved in the precious books’ production and travel through time in a presentation given by Melissa’s president, Mr. Georgios Sgourdos.

The book exhibition was open to the public during concert evenings until 15th October.

Photos of the exhibition from our Facebook page