Thursday 3 July 2014

2,500,000 users in municipal libraries in the Barcelona´s province




Almost half of the population of Barcelona is a user of the network of municipal libraries. According to the report by the County to 2013, 2.5 million people were enrolled in the 216 libraries and mobile libraries 9 representing 46% of the population of Barcelona.

Without experiencing a large increase over the figures of 2012, libraries still have a high value, the note is 8.2 among users with a broad and profile of all ages. 30% of children up to age 14 are active users of libraries and children's portal GENIUS had two million visits last year. As for the tour to the sites of these facilities last year were 13.2 million





 Thousands of books from public libraries, 'forgotten' in a warehouse.


This delay has particularly affected the titles of fiction and children's literature, whose last full consignment arrived at the municipal centers in 2012.

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