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The Enchanted Libraries: a story of transformation

The Enchanted Libraries: a story of transformation. Clara Budnik.

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The Enchanted Libraries: a story of transformation

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  1. The Enchanted Libraries: a story of transformation Clara Budnik

  2. The Directorate of Libraries, Archives, and Museums (DIBAM) is an entity of public character linked to the Government through the Ministry of Education. It was created in 1929, and gathered the old patrimonial institutions as the National Library, The National Museum of Natural History, and the National Museum of Fine Arts. Embracing also the Public Libraries

  3. THE HORROR

  4. To look back to the past, is to look back to horror

  5. El Cubismo CENSORSHIP

  6. To burn a book is to burn a dream

  7. a dream can not be changed, a life can not be halted, a book can not be forbidden.

  8. Trying to wake up

  9. “Chile… happiness is coming soon”

  10. The way to democracy starts

  11. Books are back…dreams are back

  12. Formation of a Public Libraries System in Chile • Up until the early 90’s, a considerable amount of communities already had operating public libraries • Poorly supplied • Almost every one with closed shelves • Few and unqualified personal. • No budget • No programming

  13. Formation of a Public Libraries System in Chile • Started the work in the year 1993 • First programs implemented: • Children’s corners • Child & Youth Literature Selection Committee: Librografía • Traveling boxes • First mobile library (Bibliobus) in Public Libraries, serving the rural sector

  14. A dream…

  15. In each corner of the country there is room for the dialogue

  16. Libraries without walls

  17. Creation of a System; a network • Agreements with municipalities • Establishment of the first book purchase budgets • Implementation of the first qualification courses • Integration of jails and hospitals into the system • Obligatory open shelves • Creation of the “Participative management System” • “Bibliometro”: lending points in the subway stations

  18. Bibliometro (Library Net) These are lending points in subway for books in twelve Metro Stations in Santiago. In the last decade they have perfomed about 600.000 book loans amongst the regular users of this means of transportation. Through way, persons of all ages have been attracted to the pleasure of reading.

  19. Participative Management in Public Libraries • The aim of the Mechanisms of the Participative Management is that the Public Libraries - in agreement with the DIBAM - establish a dynamic, permanent and fluid relationship with their respective communities. • Each library, from its specific nature, constitutes a space for reading and cultural development, where men, women, boys and girls, find a place where their different information and cultural needs are welcome.

  20. Other initiatives created up to the year 2000 • BIBLIO-BOATS • BOOK CARTS • BOOKS MESSENGERS • THE YELLOW LIBRARY BIKE BIBLIO-BIKE • BOOK POSTMEN • OTHERS…

  21. Other initiatives created up to the year 2000 • KIOSKS IN VALPARAISO • COMMUNITY LIBRARIES • COMMUNITY INFORMATION SERVICES - (SIC) • DIBA-MOBILES and CULTURAL BUSES Books Games Cassettes Art CD’s Movies

  22. New CenturyNew initiatives • Open Air Market Lending Point • This project involves the creation of book lending points at Open Air Markets. That is, between lettuces, potatoes and tomatoes, near the onions, baskets with books appear, which the neighbors will be able to borrow as members of this new service.

  23. New CenturyNew Initiatives • Biblioredes • Project developed with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, aimed to provide computers and Internet connection to Public Libraries as a way to overcome the digital gap in our country: Qualification courses, creation of local contents, creation of digital services.

  24. New CenturyNew Initiatives • Biblioredes (Biblio-nets) Phase 1: • Training Phase 2: • Generation of local contents Phase 3: • Generation of digital services

  25. New CenturyNew Initiatives • Project for automation of all the public libraries • By the end of year 2010 all of the public libraries will have their collections in a standarized catalog, and will be doing their loans automatically. • A member of any location in the country, will be a member of the Public Libraries System.

  26. Spaces for encounter… …for everybody

  27. Summing up: The Public Libraries Network in Chile is made up of: • 435 Public Libraries • 378 Libraries with BiblioRedes service • 16 Prison Libraries • 9 Hospital Libraries • 60 Mobile Services • More than one hundred different lending points

  28. The creation of a model public library …but we had a pending task

  29. Identity Recreation Culture Community Education Knowledge Encounter Information Access New Technologies

  30. Our main objective is the delivery of information services, cultural spreading, personal development and self-training. We pledged for the equity in the access to information and for the integration of people through services specially designed for the community, with extension activities and training.

  31. We built this library as a model for the creation of many more libraries in each corner of the country: a model of service, of philosophy, of what a library nust be, a model of dreams.

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