Abel Losada highlights the commitment to reading and to the book of the library of Moraña

The subdelegate of the Government in Pontevedra, Abel Losada, congratulated the library of Moraña for the work in favor of the reading carried out from the municipality. He did so after visiting this space with the mayor, José Luis Gómez, the councilors Xoel Vázquez, Míriam Puertas and Abra Caldas, the head of the library, María Luisa Ameal and the community services monitor, Cruz Magán.
Moraña’s library comes from winning the María Moliner Prize 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 team responsible for 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 Moraña, three other libraries in the province, such as those of Soutomaior, Tui and Pazos de Borbén, were awarded in the last edition of these awards.
Five thousand volumes for four thousand inhabitants
A Biblioteca Municipal de Moraña has about five thousand volumes for the four thousand inhabitants who reside in the villa. With a high loan rate, the library maintains an important dynamizing activity, now recognized by the Ministry.