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Conceptual approach on educational role of public libraries in conection con lifelong learning y and information literacy

This article reviews the new spaces occupied by public libraries, starting with the adaptation of services associated with persons' needs. The first push in this process was with bookmobiles that brought library services closer to those persons that could not make use of them previously. There followed, in the 1980s, an explosion in library services in public spaces, to such an extent that libraries were set up in public centres, metro stations, pools, beaches, markets, etc. In this way library services have been able to extend to other segments of the population and contribute to overcoming social exclusion.

This article reviews the new spaces occupied by public libraries, starting with the adaptation of services associated with persons' needs. The first push in this process was with bookmobiles that brought library services closer to those persons that could not make use of them previously. There followed, in the 1980s, an explosion in library services in public spaces, to such an extent that libraries were set up in public centres, metro stations, pools, beaches, markets, etc. In this way library services have been able to extend to other segments of the population and contribute to overcoming social exclusion.

Some Spanish public libraries have sites Web in a new digital work environment. These libraries are already delivered some services in their virtual branches. We are interesting to analyze user education in their sites Web. We are reviewed and tested some digital resources and services for user education in public libraries at World Wide Web. Level developing obtained in this library work is shown in conclusions. Likewise, we contributed some references about public library web sites design focused in user education and library instruction.

During 2003 twenty years of the bookmobile service restoration in the region of Murcia have been marked. This anniversary and the celebration of the I Congreso Nacional de Bibliotecas Móviles promoted by the Asociación Castellano- Leonesa de Profesionales de Bibliotecas Móviles (ACLEBIM), seems an opportune occasion to make some reflections on its evolution and future perspective in the context of the present information and communication society, general subject of this Congress. It´s also tried to determine the basic lines so that the service of bibliobuses indeed is a basic service to the information, culture and leisure access, through rural areas.

The beginning of the Information Society's program in Brazil and its application in the Brazilian public libraries is described. In each country, the Information Society is being constructed along with different conditions and social development projects in accordance with the strategies associated with each. The Brazilian Information Society's Program (SOCINFO) was established in 1999. The discussions regarding the public libraries and their insertion into the Brazilian Program began in 2000, through actions to encourage the involvement of the Brazilian public libraries in the Information Society and their contribution to the universal access to telecommunications services.

The introduction of information and communication technologies in librarian circles has led to a process of digitisation and of transition to partial self-service in libraries, giving rise to new challenges and opportunities for professionals. Profitability, timesavings, and dedication to less monotonous tasks are some of the benefits it entails. During the 2nd Public Libraries Management Seminar, organised by the Fundación Bertelsmann in Barcelona, several European experts addressed this issue which they consider to represent an opportunity for libraries to become a reference point for society.

The School-Library Programme, a reading promotion project initiated by the Bertelsmann Foundation in 1998 and celebrating its fi fth anniversary in 2004, starts now an extension phase so that new municipalities may have access to the experience gained in the implementation of this Programme by seven Spanish cities. The programme is a systematic and global approach to reading promotion integrating a great number of book-related activities and relying on a variety of both agents – professors, librarians, local coordinators, etc. – and spaces – educational centres, libraries, public spaces, etc. – to carry out the diverse actions of the Programme.

The paper presents the role of the National Libraries, the schools of Library and Information Science and the professional associations in the development and improvement in the services of public libraries in Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua.

This article analyses the public libraries within the Community Information Service.

There is described brief the concept of social exclusion and poverty appearing some indicators of the poverty in the Peru. The changeable library Joins it publishes and Indicator of distribution rate of libraries you publish to national level as a way of measuring the social exclusion in the access of the services of nformacion and the way since these they can turn into social spaces for the social incorporation.

The knowledge is the fundamental competitive factor of the society of the information. When affecting every time but the digital revolution to our works and our daily life, the way in which we treat the information tendra every time greater importance. In the society of the information, the knowledge constitutes a fundamental resource and the information its raw material but important. For this reason, at the present time greater attention to the knowledge is lent as much, to its transmission, availability and degree of use, like a the institutions related to these subjects.

The National Network of Public Libraries Program was created in 1987 under a new national policy to develop pubic libraries in Portugal. This new policy has adopted an innovative model, stressing the active relation and cooperation between central and local government. This paper presents a short overview of the evolution of this Program highlight the challenges for public libraries in the information society. To face the new paradigm is essential that the national policy for public library sector improves a new rhythm to the process of update the portuguese public library and consequently the National Network.

This paper begins with a research of Library and Information Science studies, which has recently celebrate its 20 years like academic studies in Spain. After that, authors analys public libraries in Andalusia, focus primarily on information technology they have implemented. The paper ends with an evaluation of “Andalusian Library System” (more than 600 libraries), using performance indicators, such as circulation per capita or growth rate in document collection. Besides this “traditional” indicators, new indicators, called by authors “second level indicators”, are presented. In essence the characterising quality of these is that they present high resolution results and bring us more information. "System power" is probably the best and more interesting of these new indicators.

Study and critical analysis of how a group of young people uses the Internet to spend their free time in a public library, how they experience, value, and feel it, and what new habits are acquired. It is assumed that the way free time spent in adolescence is used to explore and develop relational, emotional and cognitive abilities, to create and consolidate individual and group forms of identity through processes of socialization which, in great part, take the shape of preparation for a forthcoming adult life.

Collecting of local history material has been started in 1970. The abundance collected in three past decades also included 1024 posters. This, although not a small collection, certainly does not approach near the total number of posters printed since the foundation of the first publishing house in 1898 in Chachac. The causes for its incompleteness are not still eliminated but the activities for their overcoming are successful ones. The efforts to complete and classify this collection as well as to make alphabetical card index for this not rarely and unjustly neglected type of library non-book material, represent one of the very important conditions for it to become more accessible to the reader. That alone will enable this so far insufficiently researched collection to become an important source for future research of cultural, economical, historical and political past of this region.

This article analyses the Community Information Service from the origins in the 70s up to now, with special emphasis in our context. We present modalities and proposals for the public library to participate within the Community Information Service, as information user and producer. Tendencies are illustrated with examples.

This article summarizes the statistical panorama of the year 2002 of the Valencian Libraries (Valencian Community - Spain). The statistics reflect the important role that the libraries have in information society and public and social profitability.

This paper outlines the role of consultation in the development of a new city centre library. The initial section focuses on the planning behind Birmingham City Council’s project to replace its existing Central Library with a new Library of Birmingham on the other side of the city centre. The paper then goes on to discuss the role of public consultation in the early stages of this project, outlining the purposes, constraints, methods used, early findings and the longer-term ideas, questions and potential.

Although more and more libraries are offering electronic mail reference services, little information about these services has been reported. We conducted and exploratory survey to examine public library e-mail reference services and the patrons who use them. Data collection techniques included a questionnaire mailed to participating libraries and a Web-based questionnaire completed by library patrons. Data gathered included: (1) information on the provision and administration of e-mail reference services provided by public libraries across the United States; (2) characteristics of public library email reference patrons and their satisfaction with the service they received; and (3) classification of email reference questions received by public libraries. Characteristics of the e-mail reference services varied considerably, but the patrons, citing ease and convenience as the major reasons for using such services, were mostly satisfied with what they received.

The local nature of public libraries and the improvement of their products and services have become stronger with the inclusion of information and communication technologies in their daily activities. Within the improvements noticed the services related to the provision of information fot the community stand out. A web-compliant community-based information service (CBIS), or local information service (LIS), is a tool that well managed could provide –and it has indeed done so in some places– service levels never seen before in public libraries. A virtual CBIS/LIS could carry job vacancies, real estate ands, information alerts, services for citizens and the local administration and much more. This paper examines some instances showing that the public library function as an agent for local development is more than just words.

This article gives an overview of the present state of the web presence of public libraries in the Castile & Leon Autonomous Region, Spain. Based on the premise both that all public libraries are information tools at the service of their users and they must have an increasing presence on the Internet, our analysis consists of finding out how important the Internet is for these libraries and what kind of information they provide. To carry out this study three library types were established examining for each type the characteristics of the information they provide on their web pages and their presence on the net.

Starting with a brief introduction about the importance of the local studies department today, this paper examines the so-called “minor materials” considered as components of the local studies collection. The concept of minor publications is defined and next ephemera, minor publications themselves and press cuttings are discussed. The last section focuses on the analysis of the so-called “grey literature” and the validity of its presence in its own right as a type of material in the local studies collection.

The following article highlights several services which are common to two very important institutions in the present informationsociety: public libraries and citizen networks. Amongst these services, those seen as more important could be, on the one hand, access to information, new technologies and the Internet and on the other, training in the use of these and in handling the information obtained from them so as to turn it into knowledge, that is, everything that is related to digital and information literacy. Without a doubt, these factors make up the basis for necessary cooperation which would have a great goal: the setting up of an information network for the community within which all institutions able to provide information would intervene, under the guidance and joint management of public libraries and citizen networks. The article focusses its attention on the reasons behind and the benefits of establishing a joint network between public libraries and citizen networks in those cities where both services currently coexist.

It is in the interest of public libraries to prepare their strategic planning processes from a pers-pective of participation, integration and consensus, fostering direct intervention of the citizens. To channel the participation of the different layers of the community, libraries use different methods. Among them, according to some experiences in english-speaking countries which are mentioned in this work, focus groups prove to be an efficient technique, as they allow direct contact with people representing the main groups and help form a crosschecked view on the current situation and the possible future trends.

The article analyzes the situation of the Xarxa de Lectura Municipal d’Ontinyent formed by a central library, a library specializing in infantile and juvenile fund and a sucursal library.

This article describes the economic impacts and benefits received from public libraries in Florida, indicating that, overall, public libraries make a significant contribution to the economic development of the state. Public libraries receive funding from taxpayers and can be one of the first institutions to experience budget cuts when they occur. Identifying the economic role that libraries play in communities is crucial to the continued funding, support, and existence of libraries. In addition, this article discusses some of the other efforts that have been undertaken to determine the economic impacts and benefits received from taxpayer investment. Drawing on these earlier efforts, the authors present a framework for further study into the economic impacts and benefits received from public libraries, and present some goals and objectives for future studies.

This article summarizes the historical pecedents of the municipal archive of Alicante (Valencian Community-Spain). Also, this article explains the funds, the exihibitions and the types of users of the municiapl archive and of the library of the newspaper library of Alicante.

A festival for a multimedia library or a multimedia library for a festival? The municipal libraries of Chambéry and the Festival of the first novel The Festival of the first novel and the Jean-Jacques Rousseau multimedia library are the result of a similar desire for development of reading in Chambéry at the end of the 1980s. While increasing in size and becoming institutionalised, the two organisations have in some ways become more remote. The town reading contract, signed in 2000, has been the occasion for a new coming together, which has led to some joint actions. The municipal libraries of Chambéry undoubtedly have at their disposal the most complete collection of first novels in the French language, and these are as much borrowed as comic strips.

Analysis of accessibility and usability of web sites of 60 public libraries in Catalonia, the Catalonian Library and the collective catalogue of Barcelona's libraries' network. The accessibility was evaluated using indicators based on the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). The usability was evaluated regarding contents, users and other factors. We pay attention to URL, understandability, browseability, luminosity, design, etc. It concludes that 90% of the libraries do not carry out some of the recommendations and they are inaccessible. Most of the analysed websites would need several adaptations to be accessible. The usability is also deficient in general. The librarians should get involved in the accessible design of web resources to reduce the barriers for disabled people and foster the usability of the websites for the public at large.

It´s about how public libraries provides free and democratic access to public information. Provide a perspective on the interrelation between information society and public libraries.

This article summarizes the aspects that treated in Valencia (Spain) in the first Spanish Congress of Public Libraries.

A presentation of the important documents of José Vasconcelos Public Library in Mexico D.F.

User instruction has lately become one of the most fashionable topics in the vast field of library and information science. At the same time, the development of experiences and activities related to user instruction is becoming more and more normal practice in information units of all types. Within the specific context of public libraries, user instruction is still to be fully developed and the implementation of instruction programmes and services still leaves a lot to be desired. Nevertheless, an improvement of the situation seems imminent. In this respect, this paper presents and analyses the main user instruction experiences carried out at Spanish public libraries over the last few years, their results and future prospects.

Some of the most important Web services provided by state-run public libraries and regional libraries are studied, described and analysed. First, libraries with a presence on the Internet had to be ascertained, i.e., which libraries had a Web site, and then their most prominent services were analysed. The study was carried out in August 2002. By way of conclusion the importance that our public libraries will have in the context of Internet in the future and their public service possibilities is highlighted.

It is unquestionable that the comic book as an artistic and literary expression occupies a specific place in this century’s popular culture. An attempt will be made to give an overview of comic books and their inclusion in information services. This paper presents by way of example the pioneering project in Spain of the creation of the Comic Library of the Murcia Regional Library. This centre was born with the aim of including comic books as part of information services and as far as possible make up for the neglect and the library and information vacuum experienced by this type of holdings which has relegated them to a marginal place in the literary and artistic world. Besides the preservation, classification and cataloguing of the collection, the aim of the comic library is to disseminate it and project it outward thus fulfilling a fitting role in education, learning, entertainment and in the collection and dissemination of Spanish cultural products. All the above is given concrete form in specific products such as the publication of a Manual for the computer-based cataloguing of comics, a subject Classification, a basic and annotated bibliography of comics, etc. which we hope will be a useful reference in your libraries. Mentioned is also made of future projects involving a series of extension activities for the promotion of this art form.

This paper reviews library situations worldwide and initiatives undertaken to address specific demands in the context of critical, deprived, endemic or transitional socioeconomic situations. The response by the library can be categorised as strictly library-oriented, of a social function and by means of additional services. These library initiatives can serve as a stimulus and a source of possible actions and, in some cases, be emulated and adapted to a particular situation. Here it will be shown how the library may play a variety of roles ranging from employment agency to mediator so that isolated indigenous communities can communicate with the rest of the world and among themselves.

The article analyzes the lack of urban networks of libraries in Spain, and it analyzes the situation of the urban networks in the cities of Barcelona (Catalonia - Spain), Valladolid (Castille and Leon - Spain), Torrent and Elx (Valencian Community - Spain).

In this interview, Maija Berndtson, director of the Public Library of Helsinki (Finland), speech of the history and of the current situation of the libraries in Finland.

In this interview, Barbara J. Ford, person in charge of the Public Library of Chicago (United States), explains the importance that the public libraries have in the United Satates at present.

This work analyses legislation regarding bibliographic heritage both from the national government and Spain’s Autonomous Communities, with the intention of identifying the scope and characteristics of holdings addressed in these laws. At the same time, the web sites of public and university libraries are studied regarding a number of practices indicative of the way certain assets are considered to be patrimonial. By establishing this give-and-take between legislation and practice –and their areas of agreement and discordance—this work seeks to reveal how bibliographic heritage content is built.

New technologies impact daily our social reality. Documentation and books access are no an exception to this progressing revolution. Currently many studies appears in the countries of the northern hemisphere analyzing how all these New Technologies of Information and Communication (NTIC ) should be integrated into the public library organization and within documentary access. One response to this situation is the progression of libraries towards a dynamic social responsibility in order to coordinate and develop public energies. However, solutions aimed to absorb the technological shock and to steer towards positive action in developed countries, scope on very different realities, far away from those of our Latin American performances. "Northern" solutions are historically justified within countries having widespread social well-being bound policies firmly anchored in wealthy communities, far-off from our social construction. Temptation of applying a simple transcription of these solutions into the Latin America reality inexorably leads to a misfit when applied to different worlds. Simple distribution of computers, as a demagogic behaviour, shows the poor quality of analysis and a lack of a real cultural and pedagogic policy. It is absolutely essential to study those proposals and solutions, currently experiencing in the Nordic countries, and try to make an "intelligent translation" which matches to the Latin American reality. The purpose of this document This document analyses technological and organizational solutions applied in France (a rather wealthy Latin country) that are introduced into a strongly oriented social community, but in witch every step forward is a technical, political and social struggle. Here we study the social and technical implementation in the French regional public libraries. The main target of this study is to provide an overview of the potential evolutions of the services offered by public libraries forwarding citizen participation and seeding new information technologies.

Model Programme for Public Libraries, launched and funded by the Danish Agency for Culture and Realdania, offers an interactive, web-based inspiration catalogue and tools that are to communicate new knowledge, best practise and inspiration for brand new space and function interplay for library developers. This article highlights new findings and proposals in the area of functional interiors libraries (including examples of good practice) and compare the danish programme with the Concept of Czech Libraries Development in the years 2011–2015.

Based on the opening of a new site for the Seville Public Library, the thinking that took place during the setting up of the new library and which redefined the notion of what constitutes a public library service (access, friendly environment, marketing, etc.) is presented. It is hoped that other such institutions will find similar solutions faced as they are both by numerous changes due to the introduction of new media and technologies and by the difficulties that we have today of carrying out public library services in a new society.

The implementation of a local information service in a municipal public library needs a well thought out plan that takes into consideration the interesed parties. Aspects concerning its organisation, management, technological equipment, promotion and support by local decision-makers should be considered during its configuration. Finally, statistical monitoring and the evaluation of the service offered will provide us with an overall view of the obtained results.

The politic and legislative life of the Andalusian Autonomous Community’s Library System is 20 years old now. This paper details the development of the rules and regulations pertaining to the Andalusian Library System (SIBIA), both at regional and national level, from the beginning to the present. Five stages are clearly discernible offering a chronological overview of the past, present and future of public library services in the Andalusian Autonomous Community, that is, the “Andalusian Library Movement.” Mention is made of the latest legislation changing noticeably SIBIA’s organisational structure set by the Andalusian Library Law.

Savoie-Biblio: departmental libraries of the Savoie and Haute-Savoie redefine their territory and their model At the beginning of the year 2000, a wish to bring together the departmental libraries of Savoie and Haute-Savoie was expressed by the representatives of the two departments. A feasibility study has been the opportunity to challenge the traditional model of departmental lending libraries centred around the quarterly deposit of books with the help of the mobile library. A new model is in the process of emerging with strong central themes: advice and training, shared management of the collections and the promotion of cultural activities. The chosen legal form will permit progressive experimentation with the new model.

Data from Westminster Libraries on membership, borrowing frequency and stock use is compared with significant studies of public library use from the last 50 years. The article examines the extent of public library use, and the social and demographic factors influencing use. Analysis of book and audio-visual stock use indicates the concentration of demand on a few titles and subjects, and the relationship to what is in demand commercially. Aspects of public library use have remained constant over at least the last 50 years, and across geographical boundaries. Public libraries are used principally for leisure, for borrowing recent fiction, for useful non fiction related to immediate life interests, and for pop music. Quantitative data from library systems provide a different, probably more accurate, picture of the nature and extent of public library use. Translation of “What do we know about public library use”, de Ian M. Smith, in Abslib Proceedings, Vol. 51, No. 9, October 1999, pp. 302-314. Translated by Lozano Palacios, A, with the collaboration of the students of Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Granada.