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March 15, 2008

Mobile libraries professionals

The Association of Professional Mobile Libraries () 2007, which has been prepared on the basis of surveys of attendees at the Third Congress of National Mobile Libraries, which held in Guadalajara on 19 and October 20, 2007. The first part of this report consists of a contextualization of the mobile libraries in the Spanish state, where they are active in 79 bibliobuses, belonging to 29 different library services: 9 municipalities (9 bibliobuses), 13 provincial councils (42 bibliobuses), 7 governments autonomic (28 bibliobuses). The study from 35 surveys answered by library staff, but also by drivers bibliobuses, in several cases with dual profile (librarian and driver). The paper reported ACLEBIM issues such as certification of personnel, working hours, the access system for the post, seniority, salary or cooperation. It also carries out a qualitative analysis, incorporating questions on the valuation of the work of these professionals. Some data from this assessment can identify a high degree of vocation personnel serving mobile library services, as well as a close relationship with users. The report closes with a number of conclusions, among them this one, as the culmination: "Although much remains to be done and many people to meet, we must look to the future with hope. New technological and managerial greatly facilitate the integration of these services as a part of the library systems. has to come a time when the services can not be accommodated without modernity. It is a matter of time. Which current services arrive in good condition that time, and the creation of new ones, is the responsibility of all, for all of a sudden, for librarians for these services their spare motivation and commitment."

---> Automatically translated text by Google Translate. Version without links. See the original post in Spanish in Biblioblog.

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