300 municipal libraries proposed to receive the prizes of the XIX María Moliner Reading Encouragement Campaign.

The Evaluation Committee of the XIX María Moliner Reading Encouragement Campaign, convened by the Ministry of Culture and Sports, the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) and the Banco Santander Foundation, has pre-selected the 300 participating projects. Those proposed for the Fundación Banco Santander Awards for the best programmes to promote reading are Arucas (Las Palmas), Herencia (Ciudad Real) and Villamalea (Albacete). For the Fundación Banco Santander Award for the most innovative project to promote reading in terms of generational integration, San Javier (Murcia) was nominated.