Totana municipal library has recently joined the project "Libraries for everyone.
All equal before the culture, "a pilot project launched by the Directorate General for Books, Archives and Libraries in conjunction with the Directorate General of Immigration and volunteering and other groups of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, which is being developed through Regional Library, which is aimed at the foreign population.
The councilman of Culture has stated that "Library for All" focuses on integration and multiculturalism, and is included as one of the "Plan for Social Integration of Immigrants in the Region of Murcia 2006-2009."
This project aims to adapt the regional library services to Murcia and the rest of the Network of Public Libraries to ethnic, linguistic and cultural differences existing in the locality.
Therefore, the Municipal Library of Totana has been selected, taking into account the high number of immigrants and foreigners resident in the municipality.
Currently have service with the Regional Library municipalities of Torre Pacheco, Los Alcazares, San Javier, Fuente Alamo, Mazarrón and Totana, who have intercultural mediators.
Since the municipal library provide various support services such as librarians, hiring of a cultural mediator, Boicha Liman, who speaks three languages, the development of intercultural awareness and activities to encourage reading and the acquisition of library collections in different languages.
The program will develop multilingual materials and resources for language learning and shall mark "intercultural" by a distinctive logo so that immigrants locate resources, among other things.
