Photographic exhibition "Libraries: planned obsolescence"

Biblioteques: obsolescència programada?

The Communication Library and General Newspaper Archives holds a collection of photographs that show the daily life of several Catalan libraries

25/10/2018

Libraries have existed since ancient times, but nowadays the immediacy of searching the web makes many people see them as an obsolete institution, destined to disappear. Is this situation real? Do we really know what happens inside a library? Who goes there? What is it for? What can be found there, besides books?

Eight photographs members of AFOCER (Agrupació Foto-Cine Cerdanyola Ripollet) have proposed themselves to answer these questions by visiting ten libraries in the province of Barcelona, very different from each other. The result is this exhibition, which you can visit until November 18 on the ground floor of the building.