Regarding the activity carried out by the Civic Library in 2023, the director of the same, Doctor Fabrizio Annibali explains: “once the dramatic situation attributable to the spread of covid-19 was overcome, in 2023 the level of attendance and loans achieved in the previous years”. Thus we read in the annual report drawn up by the director, Dr. Fabrizio Annibali, for the Newsletter of the Workers’ Society, which is responsible for managing the library service: “5,706 attendances in 2023 against 5,179 in 2022; 1,525 volumes loaned in 2023 in addition to 165 subject to the intersystem loan (there were 44 in 2022)”. During 2023, the children’s section operated at full capacity, also for the organization of ad hoc initiatives, which, inaugurated in 2021 in two rooms (one for 0-10 years and the other 11-16 years) the last year recorded 1,808 attendances of which 659 adults, 982 children and 167 teenagers, while external loans were a total of 1,327. Adding the attendance of the civic library with those of the children’s section gives a total of n. 7,514, while if the loans are added the total is 2,852. According to Dr. Annibali: “the data confirm a positive recovery of the role of the Library in the city and territory”. The new book supply acquired last year was 860 volumes, assigned as follows: 233 (27.10% of the total) to the children’s section and 627 (72.90%) to the main library. According to the director, the distribution carried out, as well as the purchase of the books, impeccably respected the guidelines dictated by the Joint Control Committee. Dr. Annibali also specifies that the initiatives organized by “Gino Pieri” and the children’s section to promote the diffusion of the book and enhance the reality in which the library service is called upon to carry out its action were significant and important. Meanwhile, having retired the municipal staff in charge of the library, the director hopes that the imminent awarding of the service to the winner of the contract through public evidence: “can relaunch the library and reaffirm its irreplaceable role for the cultural development of the town”. The Gino Pieri library, which is the name of an illustrious clinician, in Porto San Giorgio represents one of the most important local institutions and one of the most gifted and qualified at a regional level with its approximately 80,000 volumes, many of which are absolutely unique and of great historical value.
Silvio Sebastiani
