Bibliotecas públicas municipais portuguesas: forças e fraquezas de um modelo na esfera da sociedade da informação e do conhecimento

Main Author: Pereira, Ângela Maria Ramiro Salgueiro
Other Authors: Rodríguez-Bravo, Blanca, Ribeiro , Fernanda
Format: Proceeding PeerReviewed Book
Bahasa: pt
Terbitan: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto - CETAC.MEDIA , 2013
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Online Access: http://eprints.rclis.org/22773/1/PORTUGAL_Bibliotecas%20p%C3%BAblicas%20municipais%20portuguesas.pdf
http://eprints.rclis.org/22773/
Daftar Isi:
  • The communication is intended to expose and analyze the model of library used for the startup of the national network of public libraries in Portugal in order to identify their strengths and weaknesses in the optics of the political, economic and organizational framework. The first part exposes the situation of Portuguese public libraries during the 1980’s, at the beginning of the democratic period, which is characterized by the lack of public library services provision and the stagnation of existing libraries. The awareness of the unsustainable situation of Portuguese libraries and the change of political and economic context of the country are conjugated in order to generate a political will to develop a national policy for the public libraries and to promote a change of the librarian reality throughout the national territory. In parallel,operates the library network of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation that in collaboration with some Portuguese municipalities offers itinerant and fixed library services and whose reality is analyzed in the optical network structure and cooperation relationship with the local administration. In a second stage of analysis, we try to identify the constraints that, since an initial phase, affected the consolidation of public libraries of the national network and the capacity of organizational adaptation to the changes of the informational context.