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The Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Pedro Alberto Cruz, this morning, with director general of Books, Archives and Libraries, Francisco Giménez, results and statistics from the Regional Library between August 2007 and June 2008, represents a significant increase in the number of users of 35.9 percent.
Cruz said "the best book in the history of the Regional Library", as those achieved after one year of management of the new Directorate General for Books, Archives and Libraries.
The number of users has grown by 202,000 people, representing an increase of 35.9 percent, the library loans have increased by 195,056, an increase of 20.8 percent and, finally, the high number of readers has grown in 4593, an increase of 44.2 percent.
With these increases are achieved a total of 762,182 data users, and 14,983 loans 1,128,811 high readers.
The Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports pointed out as main reasons for this increase in numbers "has succeeded in strengthening the link between reading for leisure, which has reduced the disciplinary component and therefore boring gray and had the reading "and the" externalization of the activities of the library, a dispersion of their strategies through initiatives such as informal reading and the Library of trams, which have led to an expanded model library, completely overturned in the street and citizenship. "
Specifically, these guidelines have been achieved through a series of initiatives such as the development of exhibits based on the provision of reading teaching, greater coordination with the Ministry of Education, Science and Research which allows to inform all schools activities and initiatives of the Library at the same time information is generated, the organization of activities aimed at attracting an audience that, in principle, is not committed to reading courses as hip-hop, film animation or comics, as well as specific activities of excellence and the related increase in the literary world.
In addition, among other initiatives, Cruz also stressed the empowerment of Comicteca, with an exponential increase in investment in the collection and loaned out for the first time these volumes, the opening of the library during the weekends, the implementation the new network card and linking the center with the Three Frontiers imprint.
For its part, Giménez referred to the investment of 1,842,756 euros to library infrastructure in the region, 45 percent percent higher than in 2007, and the figure of 1,300,000 euros for the acquisition of funds by municipalities, among others.
Finally, the general director of the Book said that the statistics of readership of the Guild of Editors, "best known", places the region of Murcia tenth the national average, a figure that "if not a year, in a couple of years we will be in the national average.
In this sense, Cruz explained that must be checked in a few months the results are taking the initiatives within the Reading Plan, as the Library's Trolley.
"Because, of course, spread over 100,000 books on the street is that the loyalty of readers who were not before, certainly one of those copies have raised in someone's enthusiasm for reading."
In addition, responsible for Culture recalled that at the end of year will implement a reading points in the form of urban container ship and has affected the concept of "expanded library, which will result in even higher percentages that put us in the national average in terms of reading rates in short time. "
Source: CARM
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