La formazione e il reclutamento del bibliotecario in Spagna

Cretarola, Silvia

Bollettino AIB 2002 42 (3)305-322
(ReLIS:jul:rkgani:y:2002:v:42:i:3:p:305-322)

Abstract:

Training of librarians is one of the most widely discussed subjects in Spain in recent years. This is yet another country that is experiencing great changes in the way of carrying out this professional activity: the increase in society's request for information, the recourse to new technologies, the transfer of attention from the book to the user have changed the work of the librarian and made a redefinition increasingly urgent starting from his/her professional training. Spain, which emerges from a long period of dictatorship at the beginning of the 1970s and which, with respect to other European countries, shows a manifest delay in the creation of a library system at national level, is today making great strides forward: in spite of the many problems that continue to afflict the libraries, the will to make up for lost time is very clear in this as in other sectors of culture. We wish therefore here to provide an overview of the situation with regard to the training of the Spanish library personnel, both with respect to the initial preparation (university and non-university) and to that which regards so-called on-going training or professional updating. Greater space has been reserved for university training: courses in librarianship and documentation, which were once the prerogative of the various schools of librarianship or the library associations, are being taught in the Spanish universities for some years now

Keywords: Empleo ; Bibliotecarios ; Formación profesional ; España ; Mercado de trabajo ; España
Pages: 305-322
Volume: 42
Year: 2002
Issue: 3

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