Kosmopolis 15
Alberto Manguel, Jesús Fernández Álvarez and Neus Castellano
Night-time Libraries, Daytime Reading
The projects of this committed librarian have been awarded the María Moliner Prize for the Promotion of Reading and the Salón del Libro Iberoamericano Prize to the Exemplary Library.
Jesús Fernández Álvarez
Jesús Fernández Álvarez (Mieres, 1969) is a Geography and History graduate. A librarian by profession, he is the founder and director of Biblioasturias magazine, an institutional publication that is now a point of reference on Asturias’s cultural and literary scene. He currently works at Mieres Public Library.
For 13 years he was in charge of Turón Municipal Library, which received an award for its activity with reading clubs and literary meetings with authors, winning the 2003 Salón Del Libro Iberoamericano Prize to the Exemplary Library. The activities organized to encourage children to read included the Librarians for a Day project, which won national recognition with the María Moliner Prize for the Promotion of Reading in its 2005 reading campaign.
Jesús Fernández Álvarez has given talks and seminars about sociocultural revitalization led by public libraries at national congresses and at the Instituto Cervantes in Moscow and Milan, the University of Rome, the Coloquio Internacional de Bibliotecarios de la FIL de Guadalajara, México, and the Book Fair of Guatemala, a country with which he has carried out several library cooperation projects.
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Kosmopolis 15
Night-time Libraries, Daytime Reading