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April 29, 2004
Latin-American public libraries directory
Latin-American Public Libraries Directory is already available and it can be consulted in Spanish and Portuguese. This recourse is the result of the I Encuentro Iberoamericano de Responsables Nacionales de Bibliotecas Públicas carried out in Cartagena de Indias from 18th to 20th in 1998, and it fits in the Latin-American Programme of Cooperation on Public Libraries. From each library, identification and localization data can be known, as well as informations about its evolution, collections and services. From this server we can also consult figures about the number of libraries, their age, services and funds. The coordination of the project go to the Subdirección General de Coordinación Bibliotecaria, in the Ministerio de Cultura.
Category: Information recourses.April 29th 2004
Latin-American public libraries directory
Latin-American Public Libraries Directory is already available and it can be consulted in Spanish and Portuguese. This recourse is the result of the I Encuentro Iberoamericano de Responsables Nacionales de Bibliotecas Públicas carried out in Cartagena de Indias from 18th to 20th in 1998, and it fits in the Latin-American Programme of Cooperation on Public Libraries. From each library, identification and localization data can be known, as well as informations about its evolution, collections and services. From this server we can also consult figures about the number of libraries, their age, services and funds. The coordination of the project go to the Subdirección General de Coordinación Bibliotecaria, in the Ministerio de Cultura.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Information resources | Published: April 29, 2004
April 06, 2004
Libraries destruction
Fernando Báez has published in Destino Publishing the work Historia Universal de la destrucción de libros: de las tablillas sumerias a la guerra de Irak, in which he has studied how men have eliminated libraries and destroyed books from the very beginning of History.
The work is divided in three parts: The old world, from the age of Bizantium to the 19th century, and the 20th century and the beginning of the 21th century. Likewise, all cultures and places are taken into account, reason why this work is a unique means to know facts related to the obssession of men in erasing culture. Among many other outlines published from this book, the most remarkable is the one appeared in El Cultural magazine in March in 2004. This work has also a big bibliography about the history of books and libraries.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Monographs | Published: April 06, 2004
