BIBLI-OS’ Associazione di volontariato con finalità solidaristiche

The Bibli-os’ association was set up in Bologna in 2010 to provide a response to the need for a hospital library service for children in the paediatric department and their family members, providing comfort, support and solidarity by means of lending and reading
activities.
Alleviating the suffering and discomfort that a period of hospitalisation, however short, inevitably produces for children and their parents is the mission of the association, which offers a lending service in the hospital composed of:
• a library for paediatric patients on the first floor of unit 13 in the Urgent Paediatrics ward;
• a library for paediatric patients on the ground floor of unit 13 in the waiting rooms and in the Paediatric Emergency Department and Short-term ICU;
• a library for paediatric patients on the ground floor of unit 8, in the waiting room of the Metabolic Disorders and Clinical Nutrition ward;
• a travelling book lending service in hospital corridors with a mobile bookcase in the Urgent Paediatrics Department, the Paediatric Emergency Department and Short-Term ICU, in the Specialist unit and in the infants wing of the Paediatric Surgery unit.