Brief History

From an almost sacred space, providing a public information service, society demands that the Public Library transform itself into a truly useful information service that is relevant and up to date, an educational, cultural and leisure hub, and that it assert itself as a privileged interlocutor, favouring open dialogue with the community.

In this sense, the objectives of the BMMNR are also set in this context, although the path is not without intrinsic or external obstacles that hinder its full realisation. In fact, when planned, intentions are almost always more ambitious than the desires, availability or possibilities that the moment dictates.

Open to the public since 2011, it is part of the RPBP. In view of the changes in today’s society, the library is required to take on new responsibilities, and a change in paradigms is a requirement that determines the very survival of the institution. From its collection to information, from custody to access, the BMMMNR seeks to reposition itself and frequently rethink its practices.

In this context, the BMMNR therefore seeks not to limit its activities to its documentary collections and is expanding its capabilities and functions. In line with this, the adaptation of the BP to the new informational archetype is proclaimed today. As a result of the social transformations brought about by new information technologies, the BP is expected to provide a combined service: informational and cultural, transcending its own physical limits towards global wisdom, in a broad global network, and that is the path we are seeking to follow.

Features

Provide free access to information, knowledge, recreation and leisure to all users, thereby contributing to raising the cultural level and quality of life of citizens;

Implement its own projects to promote reading and other cultural events, on a multi-annual basis, in order to contribute to improving the quality of life of residents and citizens in general;

To keep the document collections up to date, ensuring the technical organisation of the documents in an appropriate and permanent manner;

To welcome, coordinate and cooperate with cultural projects from other public or private entities and organisations;

To facilitate access to various information media, through local consultation or home loans or other means that facilitate the circulation of materials within the community;

Acquire, organise and make collections available in order to meet information, education and knowledge needs, contributing to the decentralisation of public reading services in other places and locations;

Enhance, preserve, disseminate and enable the population’s access to the region’s cultural heritage through the creation of an updated and constantly evolving local collection, thus contributing to strengthening its cultural identity;

Promote cultural activities and dissemination, contributing to the occupation of the population’s free time;

Participate and collaborate actively with RIBBSE and foster and implement its proposals;Evaluate, study and make available other public and/or private documentary funds that are deemed appropriate and useful to the community.