LIBRARY BOOKS NO is an interesting article on what is taking place in Spain: the weeding (word sad legacy) libraries promoted by the Administration.
this article, as sharp-de Jose Miguel Oviedo (El Pais, May 18, 2002), make a necessary point of reflection:
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time ago, in charge of the library of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, had the idea of \u200b\u200bmeeting separately with teachers from different areas of study to inform them of major changes I was suffering major agency in charge, which houses millions of books and is considered among the best in the country, although it is not Harvard or Yale in the electronic age and future. True noon, a diverse group of humanities field in which I was, we were invited to take with them a working lunch . Each of us was provided with a cardboard box containing the usual lunch consists of a sandwich (plus one on mustard), a bag of chips and a shiny apple. The first part of the meeting was routine, but later became the head librarian said that if we were still buying books and magazines at the pace we did, more soon overwhelm the capacity of the massive multi-story building that occupies the main research library. Then, as a consequence of irrefutable logic, he said to continue using the normal system to store all kinds of printed material was becoming increasingly obsolete, expensive and ineffective, and that in the near future, would have to go to storage alone mail. At that point I stopped and left my ears medium apple chew.
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BOOKS, BOOKS ...
"SCHOOL LIBRARIES: RECENT SCENARIOS FOR THE SURVIVAL OF PRINT CULTURE?"
"... We live in a time when many herald the inevitable demise of paper with the arrival of ebooks and other electronic reading devices.'s The adults those who use reading books on paper, but not adolescents and young people. These, however they spend their leisure time in the use of different digital technologies for diverse applications, download music, watch movies or television shows online, talk networking with other friends social, play over the Internet, see WEBSITES different, etc. (...)."
"I sense that in the medium term, schools will be one of the few survival scenarios, along with printed material Public Libraries-in digital culture society. From my point of view the current school and the future has to be the social space where coexist and support each other's books to digital technology, which is formed (or literate) to students to be able to use either the resources and knowledge both print culture and the digital. Consequently, school libraries should continue to play the role of guarantor and dynamization the experience of reading. The screens provide experiences and hyper fast access to information, but books are the ones who allow reading experiences long, slow, reflective ...".
Area Manuel Moreira, Professor of Educational Technology University of La Laguna (ordenadoresenelaula.blogspot.com)
ECO AND DEFENSE PAPER CLOSED
" If I had to leave a message for the future Humanity, you would in a paper book, not a floppy-mail. This morning I visited the National Library and I've seen books that are 500 years old and if I think I've seen some manuscript copies written 1000 years ago. Now I do not know how much you can take a computer diskette. The so-called floppy disks have died before exhausting their capacity data storage .. In any case, we have written a book of 350 pages to argue for the long life that awaits the book on paper "...
For Eco, " New means of expression that have emerged over the history, not killed, they have not eliminated the above. "
( not wait to deliver you from the books, Umberto Eco , referring to the book launch in Madrid on 19/05/2009).
TIMES
TIMES ...
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