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November 30, 2006
Murcia Public Reading Map
The Murcia Public Reading Map was presented at the end of October. From this publication, you can know the current situation of the public libraries in this network, that consist of Municipal Libraries. In the Map some data about service points, holdings, vistors and members, infrastructure, equipment, opening hours, lendings, cultural activities, expenditures and staff are given; they are split up by municipalities. It is also offered information about area ratios and reading points, as well as a diagnosis of the current situation of public reading in Murcia. You can find interesting the attachments, the directory of Murcia Public Libraries and the guidelines for the public reading in this region.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Reading | Published: November 30, 2006
November 24, 2006
Reading recipes
This interesting activity promoted by the Reading Promotion Plan for Extremadura (Plan de Fomento de la Lectura de Extremadura) pretends to turn the drugstores of this Spanish region into reading promotion centers. This initiative, in which both Colegios Oficiales de Farmacéuticos de Extremadura, (Extremaduran Chemists Association) and Consejerías de Cultura, Sanidad y Consumo (Regional Commissions for Culture, Health and Consumer) collaborates, consists in placing exhibitors in all the drugstores of the region in order to offer, as if they were prospectuses, passages from about 40 titles of Spanish and foreign literature, aimed at adults and children. Each prospectus has a fragment in one side and use instructions in the other one. They try to reach that sectors of the population who don’t go to centers for information or reading. A beautiful parallelism between reading and health and well-being underlies in the philosophy of this activity.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Reading | Published: November 24, 2006
November 17, 2006
Madrid Reading Promotion Plan
The Regional Reading Promotion Plan for Madrid Leer nos diferencia (Reading make us different) has recently been presented with a budget of 500 million euros to invest in 12 years. Among its actions have been announced the building of 12 new public libraries in Madrid city, the creation of a network of about 700 school libraries and a special service for people with limited mobility. Moreover, the extension and update of the collections in public libraries have been planned, as well as the creation of new service points in the underground, the increasing of the number and the surface of municipal libraries in the region —in order to reach the indicator of 18 inhabitans per square meter—, the creation of specialized libraries, the rising of public awareness, etc.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Reading | Published: November 17, 2006
November 02, 2006
School libraries directory
The Germán Sámchez Ruípérez Foundation has put online the Directorio de Bibliotecas Escolares, (School Libraries Directory). It makes it easier to get information about libraries in educational institutions (not in colleges) in the Spanish Autonomous Regions. It is intended to be a tool for the identification and the easy location of the Spanish school libraries which are into operation in the several educational levels, moreover, it will be a good practices collection. The inclusion of libraries is restrained by some minimum requirements, both, quantitative and qualitative. The database has been started with fifty school libraries records, which have been chosen for the quality of their projects, their holdings and their facilities. The number will grow up with new libraries which have projects, whose data can be sent by the form available online. The entries of the directory have differnt informations about aech registered library: identification and location data, contact, facilities and services. Meoreover, it includes the project developed by each library and a gallery of pictures.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: School libraries | Published: November 02, 2006
