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New facilities for the Library of La Manga (31/07/2009)

Has 4,800 registered members and a documentary of 4,000 units

From today La Manga del Mar Menor has new facilities for public libraries, which are located in the Gran Vía de La Manga, in front of the hotel Cavanna, whose inauguration was performed by the Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, who has said chelates the fact demand for reading in the area is very large, more than 4,000 users, so this will be a new bookmark will remain open throughout the year.

Since August 2000, La Manga had a public library located in the room to let the old post office in the Plaza Bohemia.

The new location of the Library of La Manga is located on the third floor of the municipal building where each year the doctor's installed and has been fitted with the collaboration of the Directorate General for Books, Archives and Libraries of the Autonomous Community of Murcia.

The total budget for adequacy, including furniture, was of 230,000 euros, of which the City has contributed 50 percent, the rest of the Directorate General.

The Manga Library has a collection of documents of 4,000 units made up of books, magazines, dvds, cd-rom.

Note that in this new stage also incorporates the cd-audio.

There is also a fairly extensive section of background in other languages (English, French and German) to meet the demand of the population of the area.

Currently, the Library of La Manga has 4,800 registered members, although the average number of people who pass through the library is 11,000.

In 2008, the Library of La Manga were a total of 13,062 loans, more than 3,014 last year, and in these months of 2009 and 5250 loans were made to users of La Manga.

Given their characteristics, there are two clearly marked periods in the Manga Library, similar to those in the area: a high season (summer) and a season (the rest of the year).

Hours vary by season:

Summer Hours: Monday to Friday from 19:00 to 22:00 and Saturday from 10:30 to 13:00

Winter hours: Tuesday and Thursday from 11:00 to 18:00, Saturdays from 10:00 to 13:30 and Monday closed

GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE LIBRARY NETWORK

The Cartagena Library Network is composed of nine public libraries, which have about 60,600 documents available.

The number of members on all public libraries amounted to 37,000, while the average annual visitors to the library is 235,000.

As the number of loans made during the year 2008 there were 45 812 loans from January to July in the same period of 2009 and 83,867 loans were made in the libraries, ie more than 38,055 loans last year among all Net libraries

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena

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