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The "Mateo García" Municipal Library of Totana celebrates today the Library Day dedicated especially to children and young people, for which reason spaces have been enabled with literary works dedicated by colors of their covers.

The Library Day emerged in Spain at the initiative of the Spanish Association of Friends of the Children and Youth Book every October 24 since 1997;

and it is an initiative that has its origin in the destruction of the Sarajevo library in 1992, on the occasion of the Balkan War. With this day it is intended to transfer to public opinion the importance of the library as a meeting place, not only of the readers with the books, but of the library as another element within the daily life of the population, where it is located, according to sources from the Department of Culture.

Since the library offers a wide variety of access to culture in a universal and free way, in it, in addition to books, it can also be obtained on audiovisual loans and periodicals, you can also check the daily press, and, it offers access Free Internet, being a differential element in the fight against the digital divide of the population it covers.

One day a year, the activity of the libraries to the citizens is remembered and the librarians are honored as drivers of reading for children and adults, encouraging the media to echo the activities programmed in the libraries, with the The aim is for them to become part of the citizens' cultural itinerary and truly be a leisure and learning alternative.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana