With the intention of promoting books and reading in the leisure time of the elderly, encouraging new ways of contact with the world of literature and writing, the project SPACE S(énior), which is about to celebrate 10 years of activity, intends to attract new readers and promote new habits among this age group.
For this purpose, and inserted in the axis +Reading+65active, of the Local Reading Plan, the Camilo Castelo Branco Municipal Library, from Vila Nova de Famalicão, decided to create a home reading support service that will be implemented through "library-boxes", which will be available for elderly people from institutions in the municipality.
This initiative will work with the municipal Bibliomobile that will ensure, every two months, the itinerancy of the library-boxes between the adherent institutions.
This way, the institutions will periodically receive, as a loan, this new public reading service and will be able to enjoy, with all the comfort of their spaces, a collection of books, DVDs and CDs, previously selected by the Camilo Castelo Branco Municipal Library.
Ingenio - East Valley Local Development Association, Mais Plural, Associação Gerações, Ruivães Parish Social Centre, Ribeirão Social and Parish Centre and S. Miguel de Seide Social and Parish Centre signed up for this initiative.