Spain

Municipal Public Library Dámaso Alonso in Madrid

Spanish editor — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:06:17 +0200

The Municipal Public Library Dámaso Alonso is one of the 27 libraries under Madrid City Council responsability, through General Direction of Archives, Libraries and Museums of Arts Area. The two-stores building is located in the north of the city and has 320 m2 per floor.

The main entrance is leveled to the upper floor of the library near by the circulation section, children and youth area and periodicals section.

The ground store is open to a courtyard where are the reading room, a multimedia space and the staff area.

Regional Library Joaquín Leguina of Madrid

Spanish editor — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:39:43 +0200

The Regional Library Joaquín Leguina of Madrid is located in the south-east of the capital city.

Currently, the library is placed in a former brewery called El Águila. The library shares the building with the Regional Archive of the Autonomous Community of Madrid and with the Legal Deposit.

The original building was built between 1912 and 1914 by Eugenio Jiménez Corera and later on was extended by Luis Sainz de los Terreros.

State Public Library in Guadalajara

Spanish editor — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:10:27 +0200

This public library is the main library of Guadalajara, one of the most important cities of the Autonomous Community of Castilla-La Mancha (a region on the center-east of Spain) that counts on a population of 75.493 in habitants.

The library is located in a historical building called Palacio de los Dávalos. Former palace that belonged to a Spanish nobiliary family in the 16th century. For this reason, the current library preserve a magnificent historical coffered ceiling and a central courtyard surrounded by stone columns of the same period.

State Public Library in Palma de Mallorca

Spanish editor — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:21:10 +0100

This public library is the most important library in Palma de Mallorca, capital city of the Balearic Islands’ Autonomous Community. The current building was inaugurated on 2005, and it replaced insufficient premises in Palma’s Culture House. Projected by Spanish architect Jose Luis Martín Clabo, it has six floors, two cellars among them.
The architect has also made the State Public Library in Ciudad Real, Spain, in 2003.
Library services are laid out as follows:
• On the lowest floor the ancient and local collections shares room with the serials repository.

State Public Library Anxel Casal in Santiago de Compostela

Spanish editor — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:57:28 +0100

This public library is the main library of Santiago de Compostela, capital city of Galicia, a region on northwestern Spain. The seven-floor building has 5809 m2 and follows a project from Spanish architect Andres Perea, whose first aim was to create a functional and comfortable building.

Anxel Casal (1895-1936) was publisher and major of Santiago de Compostela during Spain’s 2nd Republic (1931-1936).

On the ground floor, the lobby shares room with the periodicals section, the exhibition room and the multi-purpose hall.