Municipal Public Library "Joanot Martorell"

THE LIBRARY

OPENING HOURS AND LOCATION

Public service hours

Winter:

Monday to Friday from 09:00 h. to 20:30 h.
Saturday from 09:30 h. to 13:30 h.

Summer: SPECIAL COVID-19 (Until September 30)

Monday to Friday from 09:00 h. to 15:00 h. and from 16:30 h. to 19:30 h.

Location

Address: Avenue Masnou, 1- 1º (Casa de Cultura Jaume Pastor i Fluixà) | 03710 Calp (Alacant)

Telephone: 965 83 99 05

E-mail: biblioteca@ajcalp.es

SERVICES

Bibliographic information

Service that will attend all kinds of requests, such as:

Helping readers to consult the free access collection to find documents.
Providing help in the catalogue consultation.
Reporting on catalogues of other libraries, etc.
Providing information about library services, etc.

Searching resources

Collection:

General collection. Access is free; user can find encyclopaedias, dictionaries, yearbooks, legislation books, basic manuals, literary works, etc.
Local collection. Access is free, it informs about subjects concerning Calp.

For their use and consultation, users must search in the automated catalogue:

Valencian Public Reading Network – Library of Calp

Internet - Wifi

The Library is equipped in all its facilities with WIFI zone. It also offers 4 public computers for consultation with Internet access plus 9 tables with electrical connections for laptops. Use must respect the regulations, on request in the counter of the Room for Consultation and Reading.
Through Internet users can access the catalogue of many libraries or free documents in virtual libraries.

Libraries Catalogues

Valencian Public Reading Network

Virtual Libraries

Press and Magazines

It is located in the same Room for Consultation and Reading. Access is free and the collection is excluded from the loan.
Users have the possibility to consult the newspapers up to one month before the current month and the magazines up to one year ago.

Loan

The collection consists of books for home loans.
To use this service it is necessary to have the reader's card, which can only be used by its holder. The card is free and is requested in person at the Library.

Requirements:

Complete the application form
A passport-sized photo
Identification document (Spanish ID or passport)

Any user in possession of the reader's card will be able to use the loan service of all the libraries integrated in the Electronic Network of Valencian Public Reading.

Document reservation

The reader interested in a special document that is already borrowed, can make its reservation.

Interlibrary loan

Through the interlibrary loan users can request documents from any library, with the limitations established by the owner Library.

Library desiderata

Users can suggest the purchase of documents that are not in the Library collection, which are of interest, as long as the documents coincide with the purchase policy of the Library.