The Library, a Second Home
No. 74 FEBRUARY 2024
People who read want to read. But how can you if you don’t have purchasing power or the possibility of direct contact with books? In Portugal, 303 Municipal Libraries, integrated into a national network created in 1987, seek to fulfil the state plan to promote reading among all, from children to the elderly, in an open and inclusive way.
This book depicts 21 of these libraries, on the mainland and on the islands, and vividly reproduces the experience of observing their daily operations and statements from librarians, library staff and readers.
They are very diverse projects, constant moving and growing, but above all spaces made for us and that exist as extensions of us. There are those who call them a second home.
People who read want to read. But how can you if you don’t have purchasing power or the possibility of direct contact with books? In Portugal, 303 Municipal Libraries, integrated into a national network created in 1987, seek to fulfil the state plan to promote reading among all, from children to the elderly, in an open and inclusive way.
This book depicts 21 of these libraries, on the mainland and on the islands, and vividly reproduces the experience of observing their daily operations and statements from librarians, library staff and readers.
They are very diverse projects, constant moving and growing, but above all spaces made for us and that exist as extensions of us. There are those who call them a second home.
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Dimensions
8 × 130 × 200 mm
ISBN
978-989-9153-43-1