It is located on Rua Bernardino José Gomes, in the city of Marinha Grande, in the district of Leiria, in the province of Estremadura, integrating the Intermunicipal Community of the Leiria Region, in the Central region of Portugal.
The Municipal Library was inaugurated on November 30, 2001 and is located in the center of the city of Marinha Grande and installed in a space belonging to the Fábrica Escola Irmãos Stephens building.
The building occupied by the Municipal Library underwent a phase of restoration and adaptation works involving a technical and financial partnership shared between the municipality and the former. Portuguese Institute of Books and Libraries and the current General Directorate of Books and Libraries/ State Secretariat for Culture.
Marinha Grande became part of the National Network of Public Libraries, with the entire documentary collection belonging to the Fixed Library of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation as a hub for access to culture, information, education and free-to-use leisure.
The building has two floors where periodical services are distributed, a room for adults, a room for children and young people and the Library services are freely accessible and free of charge.
The Municipal Library building is spread over 2 floors, where various functional spaces are distributed and on the ground floor there is a general service desk, a periodical reading room and a small auditorium.
On the 1st floor there are reading rooms for adults, children and young people, and an audio/video room. This building has stairs and elevators to allow access for people with disabilities or reduced mobility.
The Municipal Library offers the following services to the public: loan of documents, reservation of documents, free local consultation, support in bibliographic research, available bibliographic catalogue, free wireless access and internet space, computers available to the public for preparing work, room for local use of audio and video documents, free reading of national and regional periodicals and book and reading promotion activities.
The Municipal Library regularly promotes activities with the aim of promoting authors and books and promoting reading aimed especially at the youngest sections of the population.
Some of these activities and projects are: Story Time - reading sessions, guided tours, exhibitions, loaning books to schools and documents for the whole family.
The building occupied by the Municipal Library underwent a phase of restoration and adaptation works involving a technical and financial partnership shared between the municipality and the former. Portuguese Institute of Books and Libraries and the current General Directorate of Books and Libraries/ State Secretariat for Culture.
Marinha Grande became part of the National Network of Public Libraries, with the entire documentary collection belonging to the Fixed Library of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation as a hub for access to culture, information, education and free-to-use leisure.
The building has two floors where periodical services are distributed, a room for adults, a room for children and young people and the Library services are freely accessible and free of charge.
The Municipal Library building is spread over 2 floors, where various functional spaces are distributed and on the ground floor there is a general service desk, a periodical reading room and a small auditorium.
On the 1st floor there are reading rooms for adults, children and young people, and an audio/video room. This building has stairs and elevators to allow access for people with disabilities or reduced mobility.
The Municipal Library offers the following services to the public: loan of documents, reservation of documents, free local consultation, support in bibliographic research, available bibliographic catalogue, free wireless access and internet space, computers available to the public for preparing work, room for local use of audio and video documents, free reading of national and regional periodicals and book and reading promotion activities.
The Municipal Library regularly promotes activities with the aim of promoting authors and books and promoting reading aimed especially at the youngest sections of the population.
Some of these activities and projects are: Story Time - reading sessions, guided tours, exhibitions, loaning books to schools and documents for the whole family.
