The summer season is always “calmer” for the Municipal Network of Libraries of Gijónsays its manager, Patricia Menéndez Benavente. These are months with less influx of users in the eleven facilities that serve the different neighborhoods of the city and that allows your staff to perform other types of tasks, such as inventory work or documentation. However, This year the stop in the loan service has been greater than usual, This is explained by the application of the restriction measures adopted by the pandemic of the coronavirus.
Although the intention of the network is “to gradually return to normality”, the loan service for the moment only by appointment, although from this Tuesday it can be done with new schedules. The libraries recover cin the new month its usual winter service, an uninterrupted schedule from 9am to 8pm in most of the spaces that make up this municipal network.
According to Patricia Menéndez Benavente “with the uninterrupted schedule, users begin to have more options to go through the libraries and thus a greater number of services are being recovered”.
With respect to protocol in the libraries, the service continues to contemplate the quarantine for returned specimens, as well as the use of hydroalcoholic gel Regarding the activities to promote reading, the head of libraries has assured BE Gijón that “will be resumed very soon.” Reading clubs (children, youth and adults) are back for whose celebration three possibilities are contemplated: face-to-face, online or mixed in the case of very small capacity.
For Patricia Menéndez Benavente, the new information and communication technologies are an opportunity. “Even if we are the same again, the provision of virtual services significantly expands our ability to reach more readers “, has explained.
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