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April 25, 2006

Reading as a public service

The publishing house Trea has just published the work, La lectura pública: análisis de la Administración pública en los orígenes del sistema bibliotecario español, (Public reading: an analysis of the public administration in the origins of the Spanish library system), wrote by Genaro Luís Garcia López. The work fills a hole in the bibliographic output about the History of Spanish Libraries in the XIX Century. Contents are arranged in four sections. In the first one, it is studied the activity of the Central Government, while the Local Administration is studied in the second section. In the third section it is analyzed the Commissions aimed to manage the national goods, with liability on libraries. In the last one, it is told how those public and private organizations, have contributed to the development of the Spanish library system.

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