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February 28, 2006
Reports about school libraries
Two Autonomous Communities have done two works that analize the state and the use of school libraries, in order to know their current situation. The Consejería de Educación y Ciencia of the Junta de Comunidades in Castilla-La Mancha, in collaboration with Alcalá College, have edited the work "School Libraries in Castilla-La Mancha:Mancha:anaylsis of the current stuation: year 2005-2006, by Vrginia Ortiz-Repiso and José Antonio Camacho. The aim of this work, which is the starting point for the design of future improvement strategies, is to achieve a good quality network of libraries, through the analysis of the state and te use of school libraries.
The journal Pinakes has been edited in Extremadura at the same time. The Dirección General de Política Educatva is in charge of it. It is avaliable in printed format and online. The article is tittled “ Análisis de la situación actual de las bibliotecas escolares extremeñas de los centros públicos”, (Analsys of the current stuation of shool librares in public schools from Extremadura). The work has been an intiative of the Consejería de Educación, and it is the result of an opinion poll made in Primary and High Scool Centers in the year 2004-2005, and it is intended for the promotion and the improvement of School libraries in Extremadura.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: School libraries | Published: February 28, 2006
February 22, 2006
Cultural Kit in Andalucía
The Junta of Andalucía will start to give a “cultural kit” to all those who have been born in that Autonomous Community since February 28. It will consist in a suitcase with a children's book, a CD with classic tales, lullabies, and folk songs, so as a library card which will be exchanged for another one of the Andalucía Public Libraries Network when the user is one. This initiative falls whitin the Plan Integral de impulso de la lectura (Comprehensive plan for reading promotion), which will be carried out from now untill 2010.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: | Published: February 22, 2006
February 10, 2006
Guidelines of interest to libraries
The working groups on public libraries, that are integrated by professionals from the Ministerio de Cultura (Culture Department) and from each of the Autonomous Communities, have carried out an excellent labour as creators of documents of interest to libraries. The Working Group on Digital Collections has published, in printed and electronic format, the “Guidelines for digitalization projects”, directed to public collections and holdings, in particular to those in the care of libraries and archives. It is an adaptation from the document with the same title endorsed by IFLA. The Working Group on Libraries City Sistems has finished its guidelines with the same title, in which recommendations are offered for the organization libraries networks in cities. All the generated documents in those groups can be consulted in the Travesía server, they are in the texts and reports section.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Publications and documents | Published: February 10, 2006
