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February 16, 2008

150 years of library profession

Between 13 and February 15, 2008 took place in Madrid on VIII Congress ANABAD, under the slogan Memory and technology and which have commemorated the hundred and fifty years after the creation of the first group of officials librarians. On July 17, 1858 establishing the body optional class work and that the administration wants to bring professionals to the archives and libraries Spaniards. The professional development of this scale was considered one of the papers of the congress, headed by Augustine Torreblanca, Technical Advisor of the Ministry of Economy and Finance. In addition, it was reported that the National Library is developing a biobliografía body, which will update the data collected during the editing done on the occasion of the centennial of this body of librarians. The conference offered simultaneous meetings in specialties: archives, libraries, museums and documentation. Indeed, the concluding observations were made separately, as they were submitted to the general and other archival section.
The Ministry of Culture was a large representation at the conference, with the active presence of the deputy heads of archives and libraries. The General Coordination Branch Librarian presented the results of their activity, while some gave information that will be of great importance for the librarian Spanish landscape, including the formation of the Council of Library Cooperation, a body created recently by Royal Decree 1573 / 2007 (BOE 1/1/2008). This Council will be constituted on March 12, 2008 in Jaca, in the days of Library Cooperation to be held annually. The Council consists of five technical committees: national and regional library, public libraries, school libraries, university libraries and specialized libraries. It is anticipated that all are incorporated in those days. Among the conferences devoted to libraries highlighted by the sharp Lluis Anglada, dedicated to libraries in the digital society, which gave a historical overview of the relationship between libraries and technologies from a thoughtful and analytical perspective. For Anglada, at the present time libraries should recover as a space (physical or telematics), think of people as objects (using information literacy) and the purpose (facilitating informed of the fact). The congress was continuing information collections digital repositories and collectors. In addition to a workshop on the subject offered by Digibis, was scheduled a conference on the various digital libraries coordinated by the Ministry of Culture, who confirmed its policy of support for the creation of repositories and announced the release of aid for 2008. Very interesting was the conference on fifty years of legal deposit in Spain, offered by Montserrat Olivan, head of this service at the National Library, who reported on the current status of legislation pending reform. The cooperation was one of the major themes of the section of libraries. Bethlehem Llera, Technical Director of the National Library, presented the national and international cooperative plans, especially those that are derived from European eContentplus programme in which our country participates, as ENRICH, devoted to manuscripts. According to Maria Antonia Carrato, Assistant Director-General for Coordination Librarian, it is expected that libraries Spanish participate in other projects of this initiative, to be launched shortly, as ED Local Interoperability between local collections, and MICHAEL plus, which will conduct a inventory multilingual digital collections. The university libraries were represented by Margarita Taladriz, who reported the involvement of Madroño in national projects such as E-Science and Europeans, as a driver. Taladriz, director of the library at the Carlos III University of Madrid, also reported the involvement of their university consortia as Nereus and NEEO, both related and related information economy. Another of the panels was dedicated to libraries and cultural management. Two sessions of communications on libraries, with experience on public libraries and specialized basically. At these sessions was presented the experience of BiblioRedes, Chilean project for digital literacy and informational. The inaugural lecture was given by the professor of philosophy Jose Luis Villacañas, while the closing was offered by the novelist Luis Mateo Diez, who championed the literary memory as a tool against oblivion.

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