The Cabildo of Lanzarote has initiated the process for the redistribution of around 15,000 copies from the institution's Publications Service funds among educational centers, associations, and municipal libraries on the island in order to bring Canarian and Lanzarote culture closer to the island's population.
Within this initiative, the councilor of the Publications Service, Myriam Barros, delivered some batches of books last Monday, March 20th to the Mararía Association and the Yaiza City Council, destined for the municipal library and the various projects that the association carries out with the users of its services.
“After more than a year of working and with great effort, we have already inventoried the nearly 100,000 books that we found in boxes in a warehouse, completely neglected. Finally, they are in a place as they deserve, organized to take care of them and offer them to the citizens,” says Myriam Barros, councilor of Education and the Publications Service of the Cabildo of Lanzarote.
Specifically, after this process of inventorying and cataloging, around 15,000 copies of varied themes but related to the Canary Islands have been selected, which are being sent to all those island entities that help to spread knowledge about the local culture that these volumes treasure.
The books belong to the bibliographic funds from the aid to publishing, which constitutes one of the areas of action of the Publications Service of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and whose purpose is "the support, promotion, and distribution of works" that "address topics related to the Canary Islands or that have been written by Canarian authors, mainly amateurs and from the island."
“Several centers and associations have already withdrawn the publications that have been assigned to them,” says Barros, who explains that “in order to maximize the performance of the bibliographic funds, those interested have been required to visit the facilities where the books are stored so that they can choose the volumes that best suit the needs of the organization.”
“With this initiative, we hope to strengthen the content of the libraries of all centers and to better publicize the culture of Lanzarote and the Canary Islands"
In this way, in addition to the entities mentioned above, the IES Blas Cabrera, Costa Teguise, Las Maretas, and Yaiza, as well as the CEIP Playa Blanca and the CEO Playa Blanca, among other educational centers and associations, such as the Titerroy neighborhood association or the Los Buches band, have already passed through the facilities of the Publications Service. Each of the groups has taken between seven and twenty-five boxes of books, which, depending on their size, contained about 30 copies.
“With this initiative, we hope to strengthen the content of the libraries of all centers and associations and to better publicize the culture of Lanzarote and the Canary Islands by extension, as well as those writers and researchers who have dedicated themselves to its study,” concludes the councilor of the Publications Service of the Cabildo.
