A Miracle in 100 Days. The Story of Creating One Library in Saint Petersburg

This is a rare book on a fairly narrow topic—yet it is guaranteed to be interesting to a wide audience. Even for those who haven’t gone to the library since school, and now, for example, they have a plant or a real-estate firm. And even if they don’t have their own business at all. After reading it, you won’t just catch a feverish enthusiasm for change for the better in places where it seemed almost impossible—you’ll also gain plenty of practical recommendations that you can use anywhere.

The author, who has never worked as a librarian—she was a PR specialist, commercial director, youth leader, a deputy, a civil servant, a TV producer, and a mother of many children—within just a hundred days launched a library in an empty building in Saint Petersburg. It quickly became cult. “Two years later, I showed a presentation about the BIRO work ‘hooks’ at the main cultural forum of the country. Three years later, I became a sought-after speaker inspiring libraries to make changes.

This book will help staff of ordinary municipal libraries believe in themselves and become a resource for change. People in the cultural sphere will find practical advice and real cases for organizing inspiring work in it,” says Nadezhda Orlova. And everyone else will surely find something useful for themselves—and simply enjoy an interesting story. Here you’ll find 60 tools that the experts at “Mann, Cheremnykh and Partners” honed while working with development companies in five countries—starting with creating a strategy for a development project and ending with the correct way to dismiss employees.

How to build teams and facilities correctly?

How to do marketing and sales correctly?

How to manage processes effectively and implement changes?

All of this will be interesting and useful to builders, developers, their partners and contractors, brokers, and real-estate agencies. And not only them.

Listen online to the full audio book version of “A Miracle in 100 Days. The Story of Creating One Library in Saint Petersburg” by Nadezhda Orlova on the MyBook.ru e-library website. Download the apps for iOS or Android and listen to “A Miracle in 100 Days. The Story of Creating One Library in Saint Petersburg” anywhere—even without the internet.