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This article deals with the professional work of the librarian Ricardo Gietz, between the Welfare State developed by Peronism to the dismantling of the same by neoliberalism in the 1990s. The interest in the figure of Gietz is in that he was the only Latin American who was in charge of the presidency of FID, was the director of CAICYT, and of Latin American Service on Translation Information of UNESCO in Argentina, among other charges in national and international organizations. He was one of the most important documentalists in the country, however, he is unknown to the new generations of information workers. Along with his father, who was also a librarian, they played a key role in the implementation of documental and library policies and, in some cases, continue to bear fruit inside and outside CONICET.

Librarians think partisan political activism, it is difficult because our education is responsible for avoiding any possible association with a practice of such policy, be it, party or social. Almost indelibly promotes professional practice away from all participation. Even when we all recognize the undeniable social impact of libraries, books, culture, known or dissimulate its political dimension. Much of that involves the professional librarian. We need to rebuild and recover fellow librarians militancy -missing or survivors- social and professional commitment helps us to recover, in turn, the profession as a matter of social and political engagement with the story that we get the lot, to realize that we can not be spectators aseptic. And yet we -librarians- also be active participants and promote future professionals a change of attitude towards our historical time.

24 ref. El artículo relata una propuesta de creación de bibliotecas populares en estaciones de ferrocarriles y subterráneos de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires y el Gran Buenos Aires, con el fin de promocionar la lectura.

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