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June 10, 2008
Plenary of the Observatory of the Book and Reading
On Monday, June 7, 2008 was set plenary of the Observatory of the Book and Reading, a body attached to the Ministry of Culture whose mission analysis of books, reading and libraries. The Observatory was regulated by the Council of Ministers on November 30, 2007 and by Royal Decree 1574/2007 of 30 November, which regulates the Centre of Reading and Book (BOE 01-01-2008) . According to the Regulations "The Observatory is made up of House representatives from the Ministries of Culture, Industry, Tourism and Trade, Education and Science, and the National Institute of Statistics, the chairman of the Cooperation Council Librarian; six representatives of the Autonomous Communities , Appointed by the Sector Conference on Culture and a representative of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces. Also has representation from the universities, various professional associations of booksellers, writers, publishers, collecting societies of copyright and professionals of archives, libraries and documentation. The House on a proposal by the President, shall appoint up to five experts in the field of reading the book and libraries. " Experts appointed in the House to join the observatory were Jose Antonio Marina, Jose Antonio Millán, Alejandro Tiana, Alfonso Garcia and Jorge Urrutia. The autonomous regions that have been incorporated into the House are those that have similar observatories, which are Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y Leon, Ceuta, Extremadura and Madrid.
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