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December 19, 2005
Exhibition in the National Library
From November 16th to February 19th it can be visited the exhibition Biblioteca en guerra (library in war), which has been made for the National Library itself. The organizers of the trade fair, Blanca Calvo and Ramón Salaberría try, through the exibition, to pay tribute to the work of creation, spread and development of the libraries services, and the reading promotion carried out in libraries during the First Republic and the Spanish Civil War.
The exhibition is composed by texts, books, pictures, posters and audiovisual materials. It is divided in four parts: Time warp, which as an introduction place visitors in that period, starting on 23 April 1931, first Day of book during the period. In Libraries for a Republic it is set out the work made in this field in municipal and proletarian libraries by Pedagogical Missions, societies or other actions promoted by groups of diverse nature. Library in war is the central core and it is divided in several sections, each one of them identified through a personage. It is demanded the figures of Tomás Navarro Tomás, director of the National Library, Teresa Andrés, who took libraries to the battle front inside lorries of Popular Culture, Jordi Rubió, director of the Library of Catalonia, and Maria Moliner, who introduced the first library plan in Spain, taken an special care with rural libraries. To finish, everything is summarized in Epilogue: the end and the exile, the achievements, expectations and unsuccessful works in all that work.
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