The network of Municipal Libraries of the Almería City Council has experienced more than notable growth in its data throughout 2023.
This is clear from the balance made by the technicians of the Culture, Traditions and Major Festivals Area of the Almería City Council, who indicate and highlight in their analysis, for example, an increase of more than 20% in the total number of users, since There have been 3,286 discharges throughout 2023, leaving the final figure at 13,719 (11,357 adults, 2,312 children and 50 groups).
It is worth remembering that, beyond the central municipal library located in the old Local Police building on Alcalde Muñoz Street, the network of municipal libraries has facilities in different neighborhoods of the capital, such as Cabo de Gata, El Alquián, La Chanca and the neighborhood of Los Angeles.
In this way, the figures presented by the municipal technicians allow us to divide the number of users of each of the centers that make up the municipal library network of Almería.
In total, these users are distributed as follows: 4,092 from the José María Artero Central Library, 2,914 from Cabo de Gata, 2,508 from El Alquián, 1,847 in La Chanca and 2,358 in Los Ángeles.
Visitors and loans
In addition to the number of users and the increase in this figure throughout last year, the number of visitors revealed by the annual balance carried out by the Almería City Council is also very positive within the municipal analysis.
It is worth remembering the concept of visitors as far as the municipal network of libraries is concerned, which are those people who come to the library to use any of its services or participate in any of its activities: study of one’s own books or notes, consultation of the library’s works, catalog consultation, loans, information, cultural activities, etc.
This figure, the number of visitors who came last year to the municipal network of libraries in Almería, rises to 368,939, concentrating the majority of visits in the Central Library, while the other four together accumulate almost 15,000 visitors.
This figure represents 63,900 more than the previous year, in 2022, posing a further increase in the good library figures in Almería capital.
The Councilor for Culture, Diego Cruz, makes a “very positive assessment of these data, which allow us to resume the path of growth of our Municipal Libraries, after that logical decline that occurred in 2020 and 2021 due to the health restrictions due to the pandemic. 2023 has also been a year in which more than 3,200 new copies have also been acquired (the total is 94,732) and up to 261 own activities have been carried out, 51 for adults and 210 for children, which means that, in addition to a container of knowledge and cultural resources for citizens, it is also a place of meeting and participation.”
The balance sheet offers other very significant data. For example, a total of 29,523 loans have been made, divided into 26,849 books, 323 records, 1,553 films and 798 electronic resources. To this we must add the 9,160 loans made through the Indaloteka app, which has almost 6,000 titles and which has increased with 447 new registrations.
This year 3,022 people used municipal library computers during the last two months of the year, doubling the records of 2022.
2024-02-03 01:44:07
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