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January 30, 2006
Spanish Culture Statistics
The Department of Culture has published the Cultural Statistics Yearbook for 2005, where they are updated the data published in The figures for Culture in Spain, published in 2002. The interest of that work is the collection of data from different cultural sectors like publishing, scenic and musical arts, cinema and video. Moreover, it is offered information about cultural employment, cultural companies, public funding and expenditure in culture, expenditure in cultural consumption at homes, copyright, foreign trade with cultural goods, cultural tourism, doctrines of the cultural field, cultural habits and practices or heritage. In this publication they are offered the last figures on archives, libraries and museums in Spain. The data about libraries are based on the statistics from the National Institute of Statistics, (INE, Instituto Nacional de Estadística). The yearbook offers a sumary with the basic information for each area, providing its evolution since 2000, and several graphics that show the cultural data for Spain in a visual way.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Statistics | Published: January 30, 2006
January 26, 2006
Monograph about School Libraries
The journal Cuadernos de pedagogía dedicates its 352 issue, December, 2005, to school libraries, as a monograph. We can find in it interesting articles about what the present is and about what the future will be for school libraries in Spain, about the various models for libraries development and about the place that those kind of libraries should have inside the context of information and communication technologies. Likewise, in that issue, reflections about reading and its importance in the first stages of growing can be provided, so as experiences and resources for reading promotion. Among the authors of the articles can be found important personalities on libraries and reading fields, as Antonio Basanta, José Antonio Millán, Rosa Regás, Teresa Colomer, Nuria Ventura, Kepa Osorio or José Antonio Camacho.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Publications and documents | Published: January 26, 2006
January 18, 2006
Manual on Academic Libraries
The publishing house Síntesis has just Publisher the book La biblioteca universitaria: análisis de su entorno híbrido (The University Library: analysis in its hybrid environment), that has been coordinated by Luisa Orera Orera. They have joined several spanish university teachers. The new monograph is edited as a part of the collection “Biblioteconomía y Documentación” (Librarianship and Information Science), beside another important manuals related to libraries, archives and the information processing. In this book, they are gathered facts as the concept of university library, the buildings, automation, planning, evaluation, development and classifying of the collections, online information, users training and services for the university community.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Monographs | Published: January 18, 2006
January 09, 2006
Professionals in the Basque Country
The Basque Association for professionals on Archives, Libraries and Documentation Centres, (ALDEE: Asociación Vasca de Profesionales de Archivos, Bibliotecas y Centros de Documentación), has edited a CD-ROM in what, under the tittle of The Information and Documentation in Euskadi: anlysis of the professional profile, they gather six reports and a manifest about the profession in the Basque Country. The gathered reports are: “The information professionals and the documentation in Euskadi: context and recent history of the profession”, “ Basque professionals in archives, libraries and documentation centres”, “Strategies for the revitalizaton of the profession: archives, libraries and documentation centres for the XXI Century”, “Professionals on information training in Euskadi”, “Duties, tasks, and categories of the professionals on information and documentation”, and “ A proposal to elaborate a code in good practices for the professional on information (archives, libraries and documentation centres)”. Moreover, it also includes the “Manifest for the recognition of the information and documentation professionals in Euskadi”
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Professionals Publications and documents | Published: January 09, 2006
January 03, 2006
Latin American Public Libraries Journal
It is already on-line the 18 issue of Correo de Bibliotecas Públicas Latinoamericanas, from October to December 2005. This journal has become the means of spreading for the activity in public libraries in Latin America. As it was done in previous times, in that issue it is given information about national and international events. Moreover, in its news section, it spreads the most important activities made in diverse Latin American countries. In a separated section, it is offered information about plans related to public libraries. Lastly, it offers summaries of printed and electronic publications in that matter.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Public libraries Publications and documents | Published: January 03, 2006
