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com / casetas-online-2020 / | The Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, together with the Minister of Education and Culture, Esperanza Moreno, the Councilor for Urban Agenda and Open Government, Mercedes Bernabé, the Councilor for Culture and Heritage Recovery, Jesús Pacheco, and the President of the Association of Creators and Artists Palin, Asensio Piqueras, presented this morning the III Murcia Book Fair 2020, which will take place from October 7 to 12 with some thirty activities and virtual booths.“On April 12 we declared culture as an essential activity in the municipality of Murcia, because the people who make up the cultural sector must be protagonists in the coming years to contribute their reflections and analysis, to help us move forward without ever losing our identity.

Today, we present a different, but safe Book Fair, which will allow us to enjoy reading and literature one more year, through virtual booths, among other initiatives, adapting ourselves due to the health crisis ”, highlighted José Ballesta.During the event, held at the Archaeological Museum of Murcia, the Murcian councilor added that “we are experiencing a crisis that is affecting all structures of society.

And when a change of epoch occurs, the societies that come out stronger are not the most technologically advanced, nor the strongest in the economic sphere, but the most mature and culturally and intellectually advanced societies ”.In this context, exhibitors will participate, for the first time, through 'virtual booths', which are available on the page https://www.ferialibromurcia.com/casetas-online-2020/.This morning, moreover, Encarnación Martínez Segado, president of the Fundación Amigos de la Lectura, announced the winner of the Murcian Book of the Year Award, which is José Daniel Espejo Balanzá, with his work 'Los Lagos de Norte América', being This is its XXII Edition.

The Fair has been organized by the City Council, in collaboration with the Palin Association and the Ministry of Education and Culture.Round tables, book presentations, exhibitions and workshops, under all safety and hygiene measuresThe first activity of the Fair will take place on October 1, at 8:00 p.m., with the inauguration of the painting, sculpture and photography exhibition 'Arte Di-Verso', with limited capacity, at the Archaeological Museum of Murcia.In addition, the Fair includes its official Proclamation, the delivery of the Murcian Book of the Year 2020 Award, film screenings, children's workshops, novel presentations, writing and reading workshops at the Museum of Blood, as well as poetic round tables on literature.

children and novels, about marketing and editorial promotion ...Among the proposals stands out the round table organized by ONCE, which will take place at the Archaeological Museum of Murcia, and which will bring braille to the Book Fair just the year in which the UN has recognized January 4 as World Day of the Braille.

Blind and visually impaired users, a Typhlotechnical instructor and a Braille specialist, will talk about the ways of reading and accessing information, from Braille to mobile phones, braille signage, music, languages, science, etc.All the Fair programming, whose activities will be carried out under the measures established by the health protocol, can be consulted on the page https://www.ferialibromurcia.com/agenda-de-eventos-2020/.The scenarios and functions of the virtual boothsThe Francisco Rabal Regional Film Library of Murcia, the Archaeological Museum, the Párraga Center and the Blood Museum are the settings in which the activities will take place.Regarding the virtual booths, by clicking on each of the exhibitors, the user will access their own page where they can obtain information about the schedule of activities of each exhibitor, contact the authors, consult their catalog for sale, buy their books and check the schedules of live videos.More than 100,000 registered users in the Library NetworkDuring the act, the Murcian councilor offered a balance of the users registered in the Municipal Network of Libraries of Murcia from January 1 to September 21, 2020, adding a total of 102,400 people.Of the total, 22,509 were registered in the Río Segura library, located in El Carmen, 10,728 in the Santiago El Mayor branch, 10,414 in the El Carmen branch, and 8,099 in La Alberca, the district with the highest number of users registered.

Also, in total, 46,351 loans have been made since the beginning of the year.The Municipal Library Network has a total of 18 service points located in the districts of Cabezo de Torres, El Palmar, La Alberca, Puente Tocinos, Beniaján, El Puntal, El Raal, Guadalupe, Javalí Nuevo, La Ńora and Sangonera la Verde, as well as in the neighborhoods of Espinardo, La Fama, San Basilio, Santiago El Mayor, two centers in the Carmen neighborhood and the Saavedra Fajardo library.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia