Library Day in Europe

October is the month chosen by quite a lot of European countries to mark “Library Day”, in particular, this day is celebrated in Spain and Germany on 24^th October. The celebration of this day is related to the destruction of the Sarajevo Library – the Bosnian National library – in  August 1992.  Why should libraries be remembered? Just because they play a central role in our societies: national, public, local libraries are an essential part in the cultural life of our cities, towns and villages. In my view, the word library stands for CULTURE, culture in capital letters; these days people who are in charge of official institutions boast about their plans to foster the cultural life of their towns or cities but perhaps if they just invested more in libraries, their plans would be much more successful. Libraries are cosy and welcoming places which offer you a seat to have a rest, a book to open and a new story to discover: by reading a book you get the chance of exploring a new world and the opportunity of leading a different life because literature has the ability to change people´ s lives and depriving people of the access to a library implies depriving people of the opportunity to change and improve their lives.

We all know that if it weren´t for the stories created by so many writers, lots of the films that we love wouldn´t exist, that´s why, a blog about films can´t but pay tribute to the excellent work of libraries and librarians.