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The article discusses the factors on the development of mission, vision and values for library and information services in Europe. It initially focuses on the role of the library's mission and vision statement, in relation to the library's practice and changes of information environment and user demands. In addition, it presents an overview of the role and mission of several libraries that include the Dublin City University Library and the Bodleian Library Oxford University.

Overview of paternships and public policies developed in Brazil to support public libraries development. National plans and programs that are being developed in Latin America and Caribe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The development of new technology has an important impact in libraries and specially in art libraries because these institutions manage a great volume of visual information. The new digital tools provide a lot of digital information that must be acquired and preserved in a library. One of the challenges facing librarians actually is how to manage and specially, how to preserve this kind of information. We think that traditional library tasks as cataloguing and indexing and are now more important than ever jointly with preservation. Most of our art libraries are now virtual libraries because we cannot ignore the digital resources that increase our collection and affect the printed collection, specially because this material have increase the concept of "ephemera" in our library. In fact, most of the digital information is ephemera, for example we don't know if we must print the information that is located in a web site or if this can be saved in a library server or merely linked to. We want to discuss with our colleagues the ways we can catalogue, indexing, preserve and present this information to users. We think that this discussion is very exciting because there are different points of view and we can to work according to the kind of information just to build an hybrid library. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]