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The Councilor for Education of the City of Lorca, Francisco Montiel, has taken stock of the services and activities developed during the year 2017 by the Municipal Library Network, formed by Pilar Barnés, the Children and Youth Library, the 8 libraries of districts and the neighborhood library located in the IES Prince of Asturias.
Montiel pointed out that "it has been a historic year, both in terms of activities and data on loans or readers." As for the documentary collections, it should be noted that over 110,000 copies have been passed, with almost 90,000 books available to users, practically 12,500 audiovisuals, 295 sound records, 1,850 CD-ROMs and 5,464 journals for consultation The members of the Lorca libraries reach almost 20,000, namely 15,786 adults, 3,843 children and 51 collectives, up to 19,680 members. 1,025 new members, 422 adults, 600 children and 3 groups: it is noteworthy that almost one third of the discharges, 329, have occurred in the libraries of districts, while 326 are from the Pilar Barnés and 370 from the Infantile and Juvenile "
El Edil stressed that "38,832 loans have been made during the year: 31,679 of books, 6,578 of audiovisuals, 286 of sound material, 167 Cd-Roms and 122 magazines, including collective loans to educational centers and associations and NGO's of The city has to be noted that the most read books by adults in Lorca during 2017 were Patria de Fernando Aramburu, Falcó by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, All this I will give you by Dolores Redondo, Paula Hawkins' girl on the train and A monster comes to see me from Patrick Ness ... As for the children, the most read books have been The world of letters, The mouse that ate the moon of Petr Horáek, Caught in the snow! And this is the height! from Jeff Kinney's hit Greg's Diary series; and Rachel Renée Russell's A Dog Sitter with a Bad Foot, owned by Nikki's Diary. "
Montiel has placed special emphasis on "the activities for the promotion of reading developed that have been many and with a great attraction for users because they have added 9,334 participants." "Story Saturdays" offered at the Children's and Youth Library 5 sessions in 350 participants attended, as well as 16 story sessions in the district libraries Another activity to promote reading among the youngest was the 22nd edition of the Marathon "Lorca, Ciudad de Cuento". To the youngest we have to highlight that 46 scheduled visits were made with which 2,300 schoolchildren of all ages met the Library.The "Encounters with Author" must also be described as successful, since 33 were held in which 2,660 students had the opportunity to get to know their favorite writers.Within the promotion of reading and writing among young people, we can not forget the
two celebrated literary contests: the XXXIII María Fernández-Luna Prize, attended by 1,417 individual and 9 collective stories, and the IX Ángeles Pascual Contest, to which 101 narrations were chosen.
Regarding programming for adults, Montiel stressed that "up to 140 readers joined the Clubs launched by the Library Network, for the adults, 4 reading clubs were offered, specifically 3 in the Barnes Pillar and one in La Paca, offering 27 gatherings to 50 readers, there were two meetings with the author with the participation of Mª José Sevilla and Agustín Martínez, while the Reading Club of San Diego offered the Easy Reading and Large Print cycle, 37 sessions were held With the participation of 7 readers, the young people developed the Reading Club "La Manzana", holding weekly meetings with 15 readers and a meeting with the writer Elena Castillo, it should be noted that in the summer the Family Reading Club was launched. As in House ", involving 38 children under 6 years and 30 adults".
As for activities to promote reading in districts, Montiel has detailed that "in Purias have amounted to 33, with the participation of 387 adults and 501 children.In La Paca we had 36, with 136 adults and 335 children. The activities carried out in Zarcilla de Ramos involved 285 attendees, in Cazalla there were 145 adults and 1,480 children in their 54 activities, 10 activities in the Marchena-Aguaderas Library with the attendance of 92 adults and 174 children. activities that attracted 142 young people and 42 adults In La Hoya there were 3 activities with the participation of 34 people Finally, the Almendricos Library hosted 4 activities that brought together 95 children and 36 adults ".
The Edil wanted to remember that "the elders are also protagonists, because for them the San Diego Easy Reading Club is developed, the activity recognized with the National Social Library Award" We read to you ", the Storyteller Grandparents or the smartphone course for seniors with whom, in addition to learning to use whatsapp or Facebook, they also learn to use the e-Biblio portal ".
Finally, the Councilor for Education has announced some of the activities that will be developed in 2018 as "an ambitious cycle of" Encounters with Author ", the Storytelling sessions, the presentation of the book Los almendros de Urci or the talk with the author Espido Freire to be held on February 15 at the Pilar Barnés library We will launch two exciting new projects: On the one hand, the "Itinerantes" service, consisting of suitcases with lots of books and films that will rotate through the libraries of the districts On the other, a new service such as the "Bebeteca" aimed at children from 0 to 3 years old and that will be installed in the Children and Youth Library to awaken the reader worm from the cradle ".
Montiel wanted to "congratulate the entire team of the Library Network and thank them for the effort and creativity to make Lorca a city of reading.We also want to encourage Lorca to continue reading because few pleasures are able to match Reading, so we remind you that you can also enjoy the blog where advice and recommendations are given and, of course, that all Lorca has at their disposal the different libraries to enjoy culture and leisure.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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