Materials from the website of the City Library “PenioPenev” inDimitrovgrad. 

With its initiative “Face to Face with the Librarian Profession” – a video presentation of the employees from the departments in the library, the librarians from the Regional Library “Petar Stapov” in Targovishte pay respect to Snejana Ianeva and Dr. Emilia Milkova.

The XXX-th National Conference of the Bulgarian Library and Information Association published a collection of papers, dedicated to the memory and the work of Snejana Ianeva, who inthe course of30 years was seeking and finding practical decisions about the application of modern technologies at Bulgarian libraries. The annual conference entitled “The Libraries in the Digital Era” took place on 15-16 October 2020 in Sofia.

The Regional Library “HristoSmirnenski” inHaskovo dedicates all its events during the National Library Week 2021 to the memory of Snejana Ianeva and in connection with her 70th anniversary. 

15 May 2021
The events during the National Library Week in Dimitrovgrad are dedicated to SnejanaIaneva’s 70 years birthday anniversary.She is an apostle of the library work, with important contributions to the annual National Library Week and the announcement of the dateMay, 11thas the professional holiday of Bulgarian librarians.

13 May 2021
“Rodina” Library in Stara Zagora marks SnejanaIaneva’s contribution for the establishment of the National Library Week and all its editions since 2006 until now, and dedicates to her memory all initiatives in the National Library Week this year (the first one without Sneja).
In May a silver cypress will be planted inSnejanaIaneva’s memory in the yard of “Rodina” Library.

11 May 2021
Memorial Fund “Snejana Ianeva” celebrates the 15th anniversary of theDay of the Librarian and the National Library Week,both started in 2006. In the historyof librarianship these two events are not only connected between themselves, but they are also connected with the name and contributions of Snejana Ianeva. That is the reason why the Memorial Fund decided to announce on 11-th May the awards, which will be bestowed in March 2022 for a year of events at the libraries in SnejanaIaneva’s memory and in connection with her 70th birthday anniversary. We hope that by defining a long period - from March 2021 till March 2022 - an opportunity will be given to all libraries, whichwould like to mark the 70thanniversary, to do thatat the right time for them. There are no restrictions in the character, the number, and the duration of the library initiatives in SnejanaIaneva’s name and in her memory. An independent commission will choose the recipients of the awards and the prizes will be bestowed on 08-th March 2022, her birthday.

22 March 2021

The celebration of the Memorial Week in SnejanaIaneva’s memory and giving her name to a reading room at the City Library in her home town were published in the mass media in great detail (see links)

On March 18, 2021, the community of the hometown of Snejana Ianeva marked her birth date with an event organized by the Municipal Council and the City Library. Words of respect to this remarkable Bulgarian, born in Dimitrovgrad, sounded in the hall of the library that has her name. The mayor of the town, Mr. Ivo Dimov, and the Chair of the Municipal Council, Mrs. Gergana Krasteva, colleagues and relatives of Snejana expressed their gratitude for her work and devotion to Bulgarian libraries and culture.

On March 11, 2021, the Bulgarian Library and Information Association, of which Snejana Ianeva was President until her passing, submitted to the Ministry of Culture a proposal to award her with the Order of “St. Cyril and Methodius”, granted by the President of Bulgaria, for her exceptional contributions to Bulgarian culture: professional exchange and implementation of the best European and world library practices, the modernization of libraries and the development of librarianship in our country for more than 30 years. The proposal is supported by the entire community of librarians in Bulgaria and by the current holders of the Order of St. Cyril and Methodius among librarians.