Monday, August 07, 2006

IL Initiatives in Spain

José Antonio Merlo Vega recently gave a paper at the 35th Annual Conference of the International Association of School Librarianship in Lisbon on "School libraries, information literacy and reading promotion initiatives in Spain", wherein he provides a nice analysis of IL initiatives in Spain. The abstract is provided in full below, courtesy of Eprints, and a link to the full-text PDF file follows.

'School libraries in Spain have evolved very quickly in recent years. The educational authorities have been approving school library development policies, and this has greatly improved the situation of these libraries in Spain. This paper will discuss three different aspects of school libraries in Spain: their current situation, plans to promote reading, and information literacy activities. First, the current situation of school libraries in Spain will be discussed, based on different types of data relating to these libraries. Second, the information literacy initiatives that are being implemented in Spain will be analysed. Finally, the different plans approved in Spain to promote reading will be studied.

Full text available here.

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