A total of seven reading animation projects presented by municipal libraries of Navarre have been awarded by the Ministry of Culture, in collaboration with the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP), in the XXV edition of the María Moliner Awards.
In particular, seven proposals from the Foral Community have been recognized, which are awarded a prize of 2,777.77 euros each. The total amount with which they have been awarded amounts to 19,444.39 euros.
The Navarran proposals selected are the following:
- The magical place where books live (Ayegui).
- Together towards a common horizon (Cascante).
- Falces reads: from the Pilon to the Public Library (Falces).
- Between books and people: the Lerín Library, meeting place and knowledge (Lerín).
- The library never shuts down (Mélida).
- Braiding relationships (Mendavia).
- The library agenda (San Adrián).
The objective is to reward the best reading animation projects aimed at citizens, especially groups with difficulties in accessing it, in any of the official languages of the respective community and with special attention to the municipalities of less than 5,000 inhabitants.
Of the 562 municipalities throughout Spain that participated in this year’s edition, 331 libraries have been awarded 2,777.77 euros and, among them, the ten best projects will increase the amount to 10,000 euros. The prize will be intended primarily for the purchase of books and/or periodicals by public libraries.
The program, funded by the Ministry of Culture through the General Directorate of Books, Comics and Reading, has a total investment of 1.1 million euros.
This initiative is of great strategic importance in access to books and reading, since approximately half of the Spanish population resides in municipalities with less than 50,000 inhabitants. The goal of the campaign is, following the ideal of María Moliner herself, that any reader anywhere can get the book that interests her.
The selection of the projects has been carried out according to criteria such as the clarity and interest of the project for reading animation, good planning and feasibility, as well as originality and innovation and social integration activities contained in the proposal and with special attention to the municipalities of less than 5,000 inhabitants.
