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00:00 | Lima, Jan. 20.
When their library went into lockdown, the Main Public Library of Lima —which is part of the public libraries network run by the National Library of Peru (Biblioteca Nacional del Peru - BNP)— was able to migrate some of their services online; for example, they organized virtual reading clubs and offered classes in subjects like mathematics, ICT, and e-literacy.
However, librarians were worried about the people who would be excluded from the library during lockdown as they did not have access to computers and the internet.
They needed a non-face-to-face, non-virtual solution and came up with the idea of a telephone reading service, which they called 'Aló BNP' (Hello, BNP).