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March 29, 2008
Conference on children, youth and school libraries
The Foundation Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Salamanca convenes the Conference on children, youth and school libraries, to be held on 29, 30 and May 31, 2008. This year's edition under the title and subtitle: The family and one more reading at home. Programs, activities and thoughts about the development of reading in the family. This encounter wants to bring adults mediators related to these topics (librarians, educators, cultural managers and parents) different programs and activities carried out by agencies and national and international associations, along with a reflection on the importance of reading within the family and its relations with other readers spaces. A series of conferences, workshops and experience, in charge of national and foreign specialists, will establish the framework for developing proposals responding with a practical approach to these issues. The complete program, registration and accommodation on the website of the Conference.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: News | Published: March 29, 2008
March 25, 2008
Promoting reading and media
Zaragoza will host 27 and March 28, 2008 Days to promote the reading and media convened with the aim of "putting value on the ability of the media to further promoting the habit reader." The program is divided into five sessions, most of the inauguration. The first may learn from the experiences and views of representatives of cultural magazines, as Mercury, What to read, Read, and Delibros Turia. The second session will focus on the role of cultural and literary supplements of newspapers and with the participation of representatives of Diario de Leon, country, world, ABC and The vanguard. The second day begins with the round table dedicated to the promotion of reading from the radio and continue with the experience of the directors of television programmes devoted to books and reading. Both sessions are planned participation of representatives from national and regional chains which emit literary programs. The last panel will be devoted to discuss the reading in times of the Internet, which will provide publishers of electronic content as Töckland, and Dosdoce The Boomeran(g).
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Reading | Published: March 25, 2008
March 21, 2008
Architecture and libraries
The Ministry of Culture has put in the net the project Architecture and libraries, since it wants to disseminate the architectural heritage of the Spanish public libraries. The site offers a visual tour of various public libraries, showing quality images and spaces in walls of the schools. It offers the possibility to consult the collective photographs from different libraries, grouped by routes or routes, either through eras, styles or geographic areas. The project has started providing images of public libraries in Grenada de Aragón, La Coruna, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Lerida, Salamanca, Teruel and Zamora. It is hoped that this resource grows with input from various public libraries wishing to share pictures of their heritage.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Buildings and facilities News | Published: March 21, 2008
March 17, 2008
Libraries of Castilla-La Mancha. Statistics 2006
The Department of Culture of Castilla-La Mancha has updated statistical data on its Network of Public Libraries. Since 1997 2005 data are disseminated from a specific server, which can be found in the statistical yearbook, the most significant data directory, public libraries, as well as data Overall from which one can hear the evolution of English-reading public Mancha. In summary, the data for 2006, the last published, yield a figure of 532 service outlets, of which 5 are state public libraries, 8 bibliobuses and the remaining 519 are for municipal libraries. The target population is 99%, providing a service station for every 3,632 inhabitants. With regard to infrastructure, the network has a post reading for every 75 inhabitants, while he was still a high percentage of the available facilities reduced, as the 42.3% have a smaller space of 100 m2. The degree of automation continues to grow, increased from 71.4% in 2003 to 85.9% in 2006. The same occurs with the number of libraries that have Internet connectivity, which has risen from 67.1% in 2003 to 88.7% in 2006. The data collections indicate that there are documents 2.67 per capita, having purchased in 2006 0.21 papers per capita spent on acquisitions and 2.19 euros per inhabitant. The number of loans per capita was 2.23 and 3.26 visits. In the network of public libraries in this community working 1,010 people, of whom 801 are library staff. Each library has an average of 1.9 librarians. The data developed, the comparative and other information of interest can be seen on estadisticasdebibliotecas.jccm.es.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Public libraries Statistics | Published: March 17, 2008
March 15, 2008
Mobile libraries professionals
The Association of Professional Mobile Libraries () 2007, which has been prepared on the basis of surveys of attendees at the Third Congress of National Mobile Libraries, which held in Guadalajara on 19 and October 20, 2007. The first part of this report consists of a contextualization of the mobile libraries in the Spanish state, where they are active in 79 bibliobuses, belonging to 29 different library services: 9 municipalities (9 bibliobuses), 13 provincial councils (42 bibliobuses), 7 governments autonomic (28 bibliobuses). The study from 35 surveys answered by library staff, but also by drivers bibliobuses, in several cases with dual profile (librarian and driver). The paper reported ACLEBIM issues such as certification of personnel, working hours, the access system for the post, seniority, salary or cooperation. It also carries out a qualitative analysis, incorporating questions on the valuation of the work of these professionals. Some data from this assessment can identify a high degree of vocation personnel serving mobile library services, as well as a close relationship with users. The report closes with a number of conclusions, among them this one, as the culmination: "Although much remains to be done and many people to meet, we must look to the future with hope. New technological and managerial greatly facilitate the integration of these services as a part of the library systems. has to come a time when the services can not be accommodated without modernity. It is a matter of time. Which current services arrive in good condition that time, and the creation of new ones, is the responsibility of all, for all of a sudden, for librarians for these services their spare motivation and commitment."
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Mobile libraries Publications and documents | Published: March 15, 2008
March 12, 2008
Constitution of the Cooperation Council Librarian
Today is the House Library Cooperation Council, an entity created by the Law on the reading of books and libraries, such as "collegial body composition that inter-library cooperation channel between the government" (Article 15.2) , which was standardized by the 1573/2007 DR. The House is constituted within the XII Meeting on Cooperation Librarian, which this year was held in Jaca. The rules of this Council provides various technical committees that are expected to remain well established in today and they are as follows: Cooperation of the National Library of Spain and the National Libraries and Regional Autonomous Communities; Public Libraries; Libraries Schoolchildren; University Libraries, and specialized libraries. In addition to the constitution, the first agenda of this Council debated proposals on the Plan Bibliographic Extraordinary Endowment for the improvement of public libraries, pay for the PLR, the Plan for the Promotion of Reading, catalog Collective Heritage Library, the collection of quantitative data from libraries or the definition of an agenda and some evidence unified access to the various bodies and scales librarians in all public administrations.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: News | Published: March 12, 2008
March 11, 2008
Lifestreaming, we leave traces on the social web
The web users employ various social services for purposes other than: del.icio.us to store and share favorite links, like Flickr when it comes to photographs or videos YouTube; Twitter for publishing and exchanging short messages and blog for longer texts; Last.fm to label our favorite music, or Facebook social network of contacts, to name just a few. Thus we leaving a trail increasingly difficult to follow, given the number and spread of these services.
To overcome this problem arise in turn called lifestreaming new services, the Anglo-Saxon word that the blogosphere Hispanic as it is absorbing and WordSpy defined as "an online record of the daily activities of a person, whether through a feed direct or adding video content online that person, such as entries in a blog updates in a social network or photographs. " Ultimately the lifestreaming allows us to be able to include information directly (through the content syndication) from our accounts of other services (Facebook, del.icio.us…) in a personal page with a domain itself, create a network of contacts, may and further information on these and sometimes also to update information for other services.
Some of the services lifestreaming best known are Tumblr, Soup and Onaswarm but there are many others, such as those listed by Read Write Web. Netvibes, with the worlds just made public, might qualify as a service of this kind, since the features are the same, although his aesthetic is different.
Libraries and librarians, as managers of information, have a duty to provide its users with content that might absorb the simplest way possible, and for that we can take advantage of the gathering lifestreaming multiple channels or feeds into one (problem that also can solve Yahoo! Pipes, as noted in this blog) so that it is possible to more easily assimilate its contents and its network of contacts, creating a website with all of them himself.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Social web | Published: March 11, 2008
March 10, 2008
Changing aesthetics
The magazine Education and the library has taken advantage of changing year to renew its aesthetics. The number 163, for January / February 2008 introduced a new layout, done tastefully, maintaining legilibidad and offering a composition in which creativity is in equilibrium with pragmatism. In this issue, we review the different venues where the sample has been exposed Library at war since November 2005 when it was opened to the present, collecting impressions of the heads of the different libraries that have visited. Another magazine that has changed its image is professional information, whose numbers 1, volume 17 January / February 2008, introduced a new composition in his deck. The issue is dedicated to free software library, but also pays special attention to the semantic web and ontologies.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Serials | Published: March 10, 2008
March 07, 2008
In the letter
The Documentation Center of Children and Youth Literature (CILIJ) of the Foundation Germán Sánchez Ruipérez has published in print a new issue of the Bulletin In the letter, a book that aims to support the promotion of reading that takes place in the classroom and the school library. The number 17 is dedicated to the letter S (Dream), and its contents revolve around the imagination and fantasy. In this release suggests a series of articles for adults, and provides an activity to be developed at school. It includes reviews of books for children and young people and other resources related to literature for children and adolescents. Also, the electronic version in pdf format Al literally number 16, devoted to new technologies, is now available, along with the rest of the numbers earlier in the section of CILIJ dedicated to the service of the Faculty.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Publications and documents School libraries | Published: March 07, 2008
March 05, 2008
Public libraries and cultural management
The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Murcia region has published the monograph The library, the area of culture and participation, which has been coordinated by Jose Antonio Gomez Hernandez and Pedro Quílez Simon. The book contains the speeches of the conference, on the same subject, ANABAD organized in Murcia in October 2007. The chapters are grouped into two major blocs, a theoretical guidance, which contextualizan cultural actions for which public libraries can be an actor, and a second which reflects experiences and models of cultural management library. The monograph opens Isabel White, director of the Municipal Service Library of A Coruna, who develops the different aspects of the planning of cultural management from the public library. Margarita Perez Pulido and Jose Luis Herrera Morilla, professors at the University of Extremadura, offered a chapter on marketing and Pedro Quílez, developer cultural Regional Library Murcia, lectures on the formation of cultural manager at public libraries. Complete Part chapter on new ways to promote reading, headed by Jose Maria Barandiarán. In terms of experience and practical models have been included texts on the Camas Municipal Public Library (Seville) and the Library Civican Pamplona. The paper includes a chapter on social inclusion and cultural experiences as well as on other marketing and extension.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Monographs | Published: March 05, 2008
March 03, 2008
Yahoo! Pipes to regroup all feeds into a single library
Although the use of content syndication greatly facilitates the distribution of content and the assumption of the same, the proliferation of feeds can rethink the problem of information overload that is difficult to digest even through aggregators. The use of these tools facilitates reading syndicated content, but it is also true that it is necessary to select a reasonable number of sources if we are not to suffer from stress informative.
So, faced with this problem of the library Moraine Valley Community College in Illinois (USA), proposed the use of Yahoo! Pipes to regroup all their feeds or "threads" (blogs, podcasts, etc.). Rolled into one, so you can just subscribe to this feed for access to all your information. While this idea is not new helps us to reflect on the problems of content syndication and possible solutions to them, and to remember the possibilities of this service and its use in libraries.
Yahoo! Pipes is a powerful tool that has just turned a year and that allows you to combine different "threads" running with them and get the desired result. While his job may be quite complex building pipes or "pipes" simple can be available to everyone with a few basic instructions.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Social web | Published: March 03, 2008
