“Livros Livres – Leve, Leia, Devoluva” is the name of the Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen de Loulé Municipal Library project that takes reading to more places in the county, in a decentralized, free and original way.
To implement this initiative, mini-libraries, designed by the architect Leni Farenza, one of the artists who integrates the Loulé Design Lab, were distributed to various locations.
The initiative's main objective is to «stimulate a taste for reading», bring the Municipal Library closer to the community and develop the
citizenship, "believing that the population will not vandalize the structures and will return the books after the readings", says the municipality in a note.
Interested readers will be able to take books with no return date and, if they wish, can leave replacement books, in order to create a book exchange network.
Thus, in mini-libraries you can also find books for different audiences, from adults to children, in different languages and of different typologies, with fiction being the privileged theme.
The mini-libraries are already on Avenida José da Costa Mealha (near the Cineteatro) and Largo de São Francisco, in Loulé, Rua do Ameixial, in Ameixial, Rua do Rossio, in Tôr, Pátio da Dª Antónia, in Benafim, Rua Vasco da Gama , in Quarteira, Jardim das Comunidades, in Almancil and Rua Dr. João Batista Ramos Faísca, in Boliqueime.
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