The María Moliner Reading Promotion Campaign rewards a total of 370 reading promotion projects carried out in public libraries in municipalities with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants.

The Minister of Culture and Sports, Miquel Iceta, the General Director of Books and Reading Promotion, María José Gálvez and the Secretary General of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP), Carlos Daniel Casares Díaz have awarded at the headquarters of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) the prizes of the María Moliner Reading Promotion Campaign in its XXII edition. The act was attended by the mayors and librarians of the ten municipalities awarded as the ten best projects of the 562 presented.

The María Moliner Reading Encouragement Campaign, convened by the Ministry of Culture and Sports in collaboration with the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) is a contest aimed at municipalities with less than 50,000 inhabitants that, since 1998, rewards the best reading promotion projects carried out by libraries of small and medium-sized towns. Since then, more than 14,500 projects have been presented by around 2,500 municipalities, which represent more than three quarters of the municipalities with less than 50,000 inhabitants in Spain.

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