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The Popular Library of this Legislative Body, offering a million of bibliographic copies, is located at 1835 Alsina Street, two blocks far from the National Congress. It gives you the possibility of comfortably consulting them from Mondays to Fridays from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. and on Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Daily attendance surpasses the 900 souls but, considering its spacious rooms, nothing helps consulting a wide variety of university different texts. It also grants a modern microfilm service complemented with a newspaper library at a nearby building located at 1871 Alsina Street.

It is important to stress that, together with the National Library, it is in charge of preserving the National Culture referred to written production. A decree of 1933 turned it into the depositary of the totality of publications as from that year on. Services are completely computerized, adapting to the present times celerity required. It also counts with a printing service and a bookbinding workshop that allows keeping and restoring altered material by excessive use.

Its Cultural Extension Department is in charge of projecting the Library to the community, making an important diffusion of its multiple activities by means of audio-visual shows at primary and secondary schools of the Capital City and the rest of the country. It grants its staff capacitating courses and promotes and finances artistic and cultural meetings.
It is an active organization accomplishing its main activity as well as others such as being a center for free exhibitions, conferences, round tables, debates and entertainment for children. It encourages students to attend their rooms, keeping up-dated material and an extended timetable.


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