Books are an important part of man’s cultural heritage.

TULA DE ALLENDE, Hgo.- Despite new technologies that facilitate reading, there are still people of all ages who go to the public library of this city.

Furthermore, others occupy the cultural space to carry out literary research or extract historical data from texts.

“Literally, books will never cease to exist because they have been an important part of man’s cultural heritage for many centuries and until now.”

The above was expressed by Felipe de Jesús Montoya Lamas, director of municipal education and culture of Tula.

“Here there is a lot of literary cultural heritage in the public library, which is consulted by children, young people and adults, during most of the year, especially when there are classes in schools, and people still come to this place to read books” Indian.

The interviewee mentioned that at least seven hundred people from various neighborhoods and communities, including San José, Barrio Alto, Michimaloya, El Carmen, Zona Centro, Nantzhá and Alvarado, come to the public library each month to read texts by different authors. like Jules Verne.

He assured that the majority are students from the primary, secondary and high school educational levels, without leaving aside some researchers or narrators from this region.

The collections most consulted by citizens, he said, are literature and mathematics and can even be provided at home, since this traditional service still exists here.

“There are readers who bring and bring texts on different topics to their respective homes during all months of the year, obviously after making the corresponding formal request regarding this free service,” said Felipe de Jesús Montoya.

To make reading more dynamic among those attending the public library, the informant said, there is a special reading area in the public building that is located where the old railway station was previously, in the central neighborhood of this city.

There is also free open internet service, only that visitors are required to bring their respective equipment such as computers or cell phones, he said.

He concluded by saying that in this municipality there are seven public libraries, including the one at the old train station, where there are hundreds of books from different years that readers can consult for free from eight in the morning to four in the afternoon. from Monday to Friday and on Saturday from eight in the morning to one in the afternoon.