Melania Luana Butnariu is a training librarian at the George Baritiu County Library - Brașov, Center of Excellence for Children and Youth. Graduate of ASE - Bucharest, Law - Brasov, postgraduate studies at the University of Bucharest, and a master's degree in quality management.
She participated, initiated, and implemented a series of national and international projects, library services, thus bringing the Brasov library and, why not, even the libraries in Romania, to the level of renowned libraries in culturally developed countries.
She coordinates groups of public librarians and school librarians from the country and abroad, in innovative projects that add value to this profession.
She collaborates with teachers everywhere, with whom, through non-formal education and with the help of various strategies, she attracts young and old to books, to reading.
She doesn't like to write about herself, about what she does, but others have done it, appearing with good practice in magazines from the Middle East - Tunisia, Ivory Coast, New Zealand, Vancouver - Canada, Hatay, Ankara, Istanbul - Turkey, Veliko Tarnovo - Bulgaria, Odense - Denmark, Madrid - Spain, Republic of Moldova and Romania.
The quote that represents her is: The non-inventive librarian is like a car without a motor (Lidia Kulikovschi, director of the Municipal Library “Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu” - Chișinău, Republic of Moldova).