Pazos de Borbén, November 5, 2024.- The subdelegate of the Government in Pontevedra, Abel Losada, congratulated the library of Pazos de Borbén for the work in favor of the reading carried out from the municipality. He did so after visiting this space with the mayor, Luciano Otero, the Councilor for Culture, Victoria Couñago and the director of the Library, José Manuel Soto.
The municipal library comes from being awarded one of the María Moliner prizes for reading animation awarded by the Ministry of Culture. This national competition, organized annually by the Ministry in collaboration with the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, seeks to recognize the work of 370 libraries belonging to municipalities of less than 50,000 inhabitants that carry out salient projects that include actions of animation to reading, efficiency and library work. Social integration and use of new technologies. Each of the awards is endowed with 2,777.77 euros that had to be dedicated to the purchase of new books or publications for the library.
The deputy delegate of the Government congratulated the heads of the municipal library for the work carried out and highlighted the investment of more than one million euros that the Government allocates “this program, key in promoting access to books and reading, since approximately half of the Spanish population resides in this type of municipalities and smaller villas.”
Abel Losada stressed that, in addition to the library of Pazos de Borbén, three other libraries in the province to those of Soutomaior, Tui and Moraña were awarded in the last edition of these awards.
Twelve thousand volumes for three thousand inhabitants
A Biblioteca Municipal de Pazos de Borbén has about 12,000 volumes and provides about 1,500 books per year, a very significant figure in a town hall of less than 3,000 inhabitants. It has a large collection of literature and a large section of children's literature.
Among other aspects, the Ministry values the dynamism of the center and its current programming, since the Library participates in the International Festival of Atlantic Oral Narration and organizes an annual contest of narrative course that has already reached its sixth edition. Its facilities are located in the old Town Hall House, a two-storey building from 1950.