Crisis in Argentina: A response from the History of Public Libraries

  • Alejandro E. Parada Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. UBA.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34096/ics.i6.978
Keywords: Library history, Public library, Argentine

Abstract

The author defines and epitomizes the concept of crisis and associates the duration with the likely outcome. States that in 2002 Argentina is in crisis and offers a look at the problem from the Library Science with the question: what tells us the history of public libraries in Argentina during their continuous and endless crisis? To outline some answers presents four Argentine library events occurred in the late colonial period (1794), in the May Revolution (1810-1812), in 1870 with the enactment of the Law on Protection of public libraries (Act 419) and in the 1930s with the emergence of libraries in neighborhood clubs and community societies. An approximation to the meanings of these events reflect on the following areas: public participation in the library structures, the library as a promoter of social mobility and as a center of community power, the need to understand these cultural entities in an area of historical continuity, and the inclusion of the political dimension in the analysis and development of this institution.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.
Published
2004-06-01
How to Cite
Parada, A. E. (2004). Crisis in Argentina: A response from the History of Public Libraries. Información, Cultura Y Sociedad, (6), 7-13. https://doi.org/10.34096/ics.i6.978
Issue
No 6 (2002)
Section
Editorial

Authors publishing in this journal acknowledge the conditions below:

  1. Authors retain the copyright of their work while they transfer the right of the first publishing to the journal, under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) Licence, which allows third parties to reproduce them under the condition that express mention is given to the author and to its original publication in the journal.
  2. Authors may enter into other contractual and independent arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the article published in this journal (for instance, it can be published in an institutional repository or in a book). In any case, an express mention should be given to its first publication in the journal.
  3. It is permitted and encouraged to publish online the articles (for example, on institutional or personal pages).