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Finishing touches for the library of St. James opens (10/02/2010)

The new units are on a floor area of 792.85 meters square, spread over basement, ground and first floors.

In the basement will house the tank storage area for documents, and the remaining floors will be the library you have access to the public.

This new center will provide loan neighbors mailboxes return, so they can return the documents that have borrowed even when the library is closed, a section for children with reading room, multipurpose room for storytelling, exhibitions , book presentations, etc., and secciónjuvenil / adults with reading room.

Users may consult books, computerized catalogs, newspapers and magazines and Multitec to facilitate Internet access, CD, DVD and various office software.

The library of St. James is number 17 of the Municipal Library Network.

Note that the library will look like a priceless jewel, old windows, Muñoz Barberán artist's work, which adorned the facade of the late Rowing Club.

The windows, which have been restored by the Program Murcia was installed in the building that will house the new library Santiago El Mayor.

The windows are abstract style and symbolized by the wall of the disappeared, the reeds of the river Segura.

In its day, the owner of the building, Red Cross, is proposed to sell the part in a charity auction.

Barberán Muñoz declared then that was pleased by the courtesy of saving.

This mural presided for decades one of the most traditional prints Segura Murcia passing through.

The Rowing Club, for 37 years, was a benchmark for the sporting and social environment of the city.

Then it was dissolved as a corporate entity in the late seventies and even used in his last season as a center for drug addicts.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia

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