L'isola che c'è (The island that is there)
The IC18 school library named after Silvia Brunini has been inaugurated
The island that is there is the IC 18 school library, set up in the headquarters of the Monterumici primary school and the De Andrè first grade secondary school in Via Asiago.
Thanks to PNRR funds, between 2022 and 2023, IC 18 Monterumici-De Andrè was able to rearrange the former science room with new furniture, functional for hybrid use for the various age groups of primary and secondary schools. In this new space, more book funds have merged, in order to make as many books as possible usable.
Over 3500 books (fiction, essays, comics, picture books…) have been catalogued with Qloud Scuola, the free open source platform for school libraries, on which teacher-librarians have been trained.
The library's collections are constantly growing thanks to the #ioleggoperché campaign, to which many families join every year.
On March 4, 2026, the day of her birthday, the library was named after Silvia Brunini, director of the IC18, who died prematurely in 2024, who left an indelible mark on this and in the other schools in the Bologna area where she worked.
Silvia Brunini strongly wanted not only the library in its new structure, but also the LeggiAmo project, which involves a commitment on the part of all teachers to read aloud in a constant, daily and systematic way in classes, from childhood to secondary school. Reading education as an interdisciplinary objective that involves the entire school.
This framework also includes the participation of the Monterumici primary school in the Sister Libraries project, which led to the exchange with the Japanese city of Itabashi, on the occasion of which Bolognese and Japanese students selected texts that were then exchanged, with the aim of building exchanges of visions and experiences.
The name L'isola che c'è was chosen by colleagues to remember not only Silvia Brunini's love for the song almost of the same name, which contains a strong pacifist, inclusive message, but also the importance of books and reading as an island that never fails and to which boys and girls can always refer, starting from their school.
