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This article analyses the causes of the reading crisis and proposes appropriate strategies to carry out successfully the work of librarians/teachers in the fostering of reading habits. For this it is necessary to differentiate the role of instructional texts, informative texts and amusing readings in the development of homework that promotes the teacher as mediator in the student's relationship with literature. This mediation must be committed by an activity of effective reading instruction which promotes the reading character as work technique that results in the promotion of reading vocation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For professionals of any knowledge branch, the wise use of information in a range of contexts include prudent exercise, decision making and research execution, especially when it is undeniable that all generate and consume information. Students since early stages until pre-graduate level should acquire the ability to prepare and publish their research results. It is well-known Cuban experience on the «Scientific Research Presentation Style» (EPIC Standards) «an important instrument to form, in any specialty, those students who make incursions into the difficult process of scientific research. Professors, tutors, librarians and students of the 12 profiles that belong to the teaching centers of the Faculty «10 de Octubre» in Havana constitute a representative example. Conclusively, the standards make easier the educational work in which professors-tutors participate actively, working as a team to disclose them and allow their use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]