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The investment made over a million euros and the construction of the building has enabled us to recover the windows of the former Rowing Club.
With this addition, the network has 17 municipal libraries.
The effort undertaken by the City to decentralize services and closer to citizens has had today in Santiago El Mayor is another example.
The Mayor, Miguel Ángel Cámara, today presided over the inauguration of a new library, construction of which has invested more than 1.2 million euros.
The Mayor was accompanied, among others, by the Councillor for Education and Youth, Lola Sanchez.
In addition, the building incorporates a unique feature that has been recovered in recent months by the City.
These are the windows of Muñoz Barberán had installed in the old Rowing Club and now look at the Reading Room of the new library.
The new offices occupy a floor space of almost 800 m2, spread over basement, ground and first floors.
In the basement is located the tank, a storage area for documents.
On the ground floor is located the reception area, information / loan, the children's section, the multipurpose room and area newspapers and magazines, while the top floor is the room youth and adults, and Multitec direction.
This new center - is number 17 of the Municipal Library Network-is destined to become a true cultural, educational and entertaining for all neighbors of James, and their environment.
A collection of over 5,000 documents
The library opens its doors with a collection of 5,169 documents, which we must add 2,256 units that comprise the collection was donated by Angel Peñalver Martínez.
Natural de Santiago El Mayor, Peñalver was one of the first librarians of the City of Murcia.
He subsequently worked at the Regional Library and the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Murcia and is currently responsible for the Publications and Statistics Service of the Ministry of Education, Training and Employment.
Units available to service users with mailboxes loan return, so they can return the documents that have borrowed even when the library is closed, a section for children with reading room, multipurpose room for storytelling , exhibitions, book presentations, etc., and section juvenile / adult reading room.
It is also possible to consult books, computerized catalogs, newspapers and magazines and Multitec to facilitate Internet access, CD, DVD and various office software.
The building incorporates a unique feature that has been recovered in recent months by the City.
It's the old glass-work of the painter-Muñoz Barberán that adorned the facade of the late Rowing Club and will now be seen in this building.
The windows are abstract style and symbolized by the wall of the disappeared, the reeds of the river Segura.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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