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November 07, 2005

Congress about Mobile Libraries

This weekend has been made the II Congress in Mobile Libraries in Barcelona, three years after the first one. It was organized by the Asociación Castellano Leonesa de Bibliotecas Móviles (ACLEBIM), with the support of the Diputación de Barcelona and the Generalidad de Cataluña. During those two days, they have been thinking over the importance and the suitability of the mobile libraies services. About 100 professionals have taken part in it, among mobile libraries responsibles, and responsibles of libraries services at a provincial level. There was representatives for all the counties in Spain with the exception of Galicia, Asturias y Cantabria ( and Ceuta and Melilla).
It was there Ian Stringer, The president of the mobile libraries department in the IFLA, and there were communications from Spanish experts.
The mobile libraries in Cataluña Plan 2005-2013, was among the most important matters. The plan, that is not approved yet, anticipates to increase the number of mobile libraries to 29 during those years. The objective is that all the municipalities have access to the libray serices in the network. The mobile libraries from Castilla y Leeón (Segovia y Clavileño), Murcia, Castilla-La Mancha, y Barcelona went to the congress as well and we could see the improvements made in that kind of services: The new generation mobile libraries sevices.

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