The move aims to provide easy access to books and other learning materials to everyone in all parts of the city.
In a City Information Office report, Salome Enoc said their office continues to distribute book titles to reading centers in barangays, with each reading center receiving about 300 to 500 book titles and reading materials.
The CLIC in 2022 had already distributed books to reading centers in 15 far-flung barangays and an elementary school in Marilog District.
Eno urged barangays who have yet to establish their own reading centers to make space where they can create one.
“This is a call to all barangay captains to open their own reading center, even if it is only a nook,” Enoc said.
She said the city is aiming for a child-friendly city, and one of the components is to build a library in reading centers in the barangays.
Enoc further said the CLIC is willing to help barangays establish their own reading centers as long as ample space that can be easily accessed by residents is provided. She said the generous donations that the city library receives will provide sufficient reading materials for each reading center.
“We are sharing these donations given by our generous Davaoeños to the reading centers. We are slowly distributing these to them because sometimes we have duplicate, triplicates here so we are share these with them,” she said.
Enoc also urged Davaoeños to support the libraries and the reading centers in the districts and barangays by either visiting them or by donating books.