Picture: Ayuntamiento de Villena.
The Villena municipal libraries web site, bibliotecavillena.com, has seen a 52 p.c enhance in consumer visitors in 2024.
This follows the launch of a brand new portal on the finish of 2023 and the introduction of further public providers. Greater than 1,500 downloads of documentation and bibliographic materials have been recorded this yr.
The Councillor for Tradition and Libraries, María Server, expressed gratitude for the dedication of the library employees in selling tradition and studying via the web site. She highlighted the sturdy curiosity in Villena’s libraries, not simply regionally however from customers worldwide.
Library director Francisco García attributed the expansion to the improved digital providers supplied by the brand new platform, which now provides automated mortgage renewals, digital e-book borrowing via e-Biblio, and film streaming through e-Movie. One other important addition is the Villena Historic Digital Newspaper Library, which supplies free entry to archived newspapers, magazines, and periodicals from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Most web site guests in 2024 have been from Spain, with notable visitors from Norway, the Netherlands, and France, in addition to from non-EU international locations like Canada, China, Brazil, Mexico, and Cuba. García believes the rise in customers is because of higher interactivity, accessibility, and the high-quality content material obtainable on the web site.
