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January 24, 2004
Library, a place of socializing
The La Sombra de la palabra (The shadow of the word) collection, from Anaya Publising, has published in 2003 a new title of library interest. It’s La Biblioteca, un espacio de cultura (Library, a space of culture), whose autor is Mercé Escardó i Bas, responsable for the Biblioteca Can Butjosa in Partes del Vallés (Barcelona). It is an original work in which the author’s personal experience and evolution as librarian are showed, issues that Mercé Escardó uses to think about library and its social function. The work includes a CD with purposes of invigoration of library.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Monographs | Published: January 24, 2004
January 20, 2004
Copyright in libraries
The European Commission has started proceedings to different countries – including Spain- for letting works loaning without paying royalties to the authors. In view of this, different organizations are spreading protest documents, due to the great problem that would mean, above all for public libraries, to have to face this expense. The Bibliotecarios por la Paz (Librarians for Peace) press release was as follows: ”Related to the European Commission diktat to pay for the public loaning of books, librarians want to express our firm rejection to this measure. We understand that public and university libraries contribute in a decisive way to reading promotion, thanks precisely to its services of public loaning, to the facilities of free access consultation and to all the bibliographic services and documentary that these centres offer. Without damaging authors, libraries facilitate the knowledge and spreading of their works, literary, scientific, artistic... works that, many times, are adquired by users once they have known them in libraries. In a country like ours, with one of the lowest rate of reading in the European Union, specially among young people, this would mean, without any doubt, the disappearance of the few reading habit, and it would contribute to a bigger knowledge of the best of science, humanities and arts existing among the funds of our public or university libraries. Undoubtedly this measure has to do with the neoliberal politics of privatisation, damage and progressive reduction of our public services, reason why we will also demand its inmediate removal.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Intelectual property | Published: January 20, 2004
January 15, 2004
The librarian “in a mess”
With the name of El bibliotecario desordenado (The librarian in a mess) Javier Leiva Aguilera started in February 2003 one of the first weblogs on libraries in Spain.Few weeks ago, this log book has changed its name and it has its own server called "Catorze.com". News and oppinions put in “Catorze” are about libraries and issues related to the information resources offered in the Internet. This log book is completed with other blog, with the same resposible, "FotoBiD: La información en imágenes", where they publish images about libraries or related to the word of libraries.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Information resources | Published: January 15, 2004
January 09, 2004
Library bulletins
The Consejería de Cultura of the Junta de Andalicia has started to publish the Boletín de Bibliotecas Públicas de Andalucía that pretends to spread the activity of this wide network of public centres. In this billetin they gather up news of the network and professionals, bibliographic selections and other library materials, and also interesting titles and useful webs. The different numbers can be consulted in this bulletin web files page. In the same way, the first number of Entrellat has been published; bulletin of the group of Catalonian libraries associated to Unesco. With this publication they want to spread the experiences of the different libraries belonging to this group. The bulletin can be unloaded from the Catalonian Centre Unesco Web.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Serials | Published: January 09, 2004
January 08, 2004
Report on information society in Spain
Telefónica has published the report La sociedad de la información en España (Information Society in Spain) started in 2002. The study gathers different fields of application of information and communication technologies, such as home, business enterprise, education, health or entertainment. It includes, besides, a glossary and a bibliography. This study completes the one published by Fundación Auna in 2003.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Information society Publications and documents | Published: January 08, 2004
