Number of sistership established: 2

Country: Portugal

Description: A municipality library of a inner portuguese town, far 100 km north of Lisbon. It has about 3200 m2 of area distributed over three floors. The main areas of occupation are the children reading room; the adult reading room and the computer and the media area. It also has two conference rooms, a small one and a big one (with about 160 chairs). This library has about 6000 users and about 80000 monographs, behond other written, audio or media documents.

Type of library: Metropolitan

Population served: Between 10.000 and 100.000

Current library programs:
  • Activities for children and young adults
  • Activities in cooperation with other organizations
  • Culture promotion
  • Exhibitions
  • Reading clubs (Book clubs)
  • Reading promotion
Activities you want to do with your sister library:
  • Cooperation with other organizations
  • Exchange of ideas and expertise
  • Promotion of multiculturalism and multilingualism
  • Reading promotion
  • Staff interchange

Languages spoken by staff: Spanish and English

Languages spoken by patrons: Spanish, English

Preferred countries for cooperation: Spain, Croatia and Ireland

Searching partners for European program: No

Participating in any European Union program: No