The Public Library and its Involvement in Non-Formal Learning Activities

The public library mission is to meet through its structure, functionality and services to the complex and diverse information needs of the users and researchers, teachers, students, pupils. The public library tends to become a complement to policies related to education. It does not have to stay passively but to take the first step to all those interested, demonstrating that education is a process that takes place lifelong learning and not end with the graduation. As the educational environment adopted e-learning strategies, libraries have played a key role in supporting the identification and organization of resources to complete the programs and e-learning courses and to provide documentary support needed. One of the important objectives of any library is to provide a base for teaching and research for the community served. Achieving this objective in the current needs require application of the principles which have as their object information. The public library, involved in the educational process intended to concrete ways to exercise their tasks in conditions of a modern, achieving the objectives of this process to a higher qualitative level. In this paper we address the aspects of non-formal learning activities carried out within the European FP7 research project IRRESISTIBLE, oriented on teacher training, by combining formal and informal learning focused on Responsible Research and Innovation.