Overview

• Comunidad BCN debuts with extended loan periods, WhatsApp reservations, priority content and workshops, event invitations, personalized assistance and coworking, with free in‑person signup for registered users aged 16+ at the Public Reading Room using a DNI and a welcome gift of the birth‑date newspaper cover.
• BCN introduced an upgraded digital catalog featuring a modern mobile interface, greater visibility of holdings, improved search layout and tools to publish or email saved favorites.
• Conabip’s 155th anniversary, under the theme Infinito Aleph, schedules cultural and recreational activities in more than 150 popular libraries across all provinces.
• An illustrated edition of Jorge Luis Borges’s The Aleph, produced with the Secretariat of Culture, the Borges Foundation and Penguin Random House, was distributed free to over 1,500 libraries and cultural spaces.
• Popular libraries report rising loan demand as new books cost AR$25,000–50,000, with local associations citing monthly dues around AR$2,500 and some members requesting fee relief.