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Memoirs of the family library of Alejandro E. Parada

The objective is to analyze the interventions of editors in the Argentine cultural press in relation to the changes in the publishing market at the end of the twentieth century. Between 1988 and 1998, editors wrote in literary magazines in regular sections for the same target audience of the books they launched into the market. Unlike earlier publications, when editors wrote for their peers, in the late 1980s editors became visible to the public. The editors' publications in Babel magazine and the interviews in La Gandhi Argentina were read from the perspective of history and cultural sociology. The editors in the act of taking the floor situated their practice in comparison with the recent past and marked the tension between the different economic logics of cultural goods. The figure of the editor appeared in the press as he lost space in editorial management and decisions were taken by the commercial and marketing area. In a country without publishing archives or national bibliography, the writings and interviews with publishers serve to reconstruct fragments of their work and the absent catalog, at least until the implementation of the ISBN.

Reading has been and continues to be an ever renewed experience and renewal that began in childhood, continued in adolescence and later continued at the university in a city, Rosario, in the province of Santa Fe, in which there are numerous and important libraries.

This paper presents an approach to the figure of Luis Fortunato Iglesias based on his personal archive donated by his family members to CENDIE. Iglesias was a rural teacher for almost 20 years and developed an innovative pedagogical experience at Rural School No. 11 in Tristán Suárez, province of Buenos Aires. At that time it was a unitary school, with only one teacher and a multi-grade format. His teaching experience was the basis for the publication of several books and a long career as a lecturer, consultant, writer, civil servant and activist.

The aim of this article is to present Juan Hipólito Vieytes as editor of the Semanario de Agricultura, Industria y Comercio in relation to the context of the Bourbon reforms and the eighteenth-century press that circulated in Buenos Aires during the viceregal period. By recounting the characteristics of the porteño newspaper, its communicative proposal to change the customs of the peasants and its pedagogical strategies will be analyzed. Vieytes defended the classic scriptural form of catechism, which needed a reader mediator such as the "patriotic citizen" or the "enlightened parish priest". Meanwhile, Gabriel Antonio de Hevia y Pando, a collaborator of the Semanario, proposed to recover the orality of the popular classes to narrate from an exemplary case the good practices that Vieytes sought to spread in the viceroyalty. One of the goals of the newspaper was to change the customs of the farmers, to break with the generational transmission of knowledge so that the knowledge of the "wise Europe" could flourish in the confines of America.