San Sebastian

A Coruna, analysed four libraries (a University, a State public and other municipal). CONSUMER EROSKI technicians visited their facility in mid-December to assess the general State of each of these paragraphs of information, services, accessibility, security and cleaning. In addition, they asked through the steps to process the meat in order to know the functioning of the system of loan and consultation. The final evaluation of the service offered by the libraries visited in the corunesa capital reaches the well, one of the best scores of the report and above the global average in the study, a mediocre acceptable. Only exceeds you Bilbao (with a very well) and on the same note remain the centers studied in Barcelona, Cordoba, Granada, Madrid, Murcia, San Sebastian and Vitoria. This good note sits in a good accessibility and supply of services, as well as a very good cleaning and maintenance of the facilities visited. In all the centres analysed in A Coruna is they saw rooms area Studio, library, fonoteca, spaces of consultation of Internet, wifi and video and audio posts. The reading rooms were less frequent and were found in three of the four visited facilities.

However, all visited spaces have an uninterrupted schedule of morning and afternoon, and three of them open on Saturdays. They are the reasons why the Galician City got one of the best notes in the field of services (a good, surpassing the acceptable average). Borrow books, CDs and DVDs (in two of them, even magazines) may be taken in the four analysed centres. Users can take home after five materials on average for a period of two weeks, and when the time of loan is insufficient, it may be extended for a period of two weeks. In addition, if the book is not in the libraries, all of them offer the possibility of interlibrary loan.