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Subject: AW: [caucushispanico] Manifiesto de Alexandria sobre las
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Colegas,

Tuve la oportunidad de participar en ambas reuniones convocadas por IFLA,
UNESCO y el Information Literacy Forum de EUA: Ambos eventos fueron ricos
en interacciones con diferentes profesionales de los cinco continentes.

Si gustan luego, les paso mi reporte, cuando regrese a Mexico, ya que he
hecho una parada de cinco dias en Alemania.

Saludos cordiales,

Jesus Lau

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Von: caucushispanico@... im Auftrag von Alicia Ocaso
Gesendet: Di 15.11.2005 07:30
An: GABI; Caucus
Betreff: [caucushispanico] Manifiesto de Alexandria sobre las Bibliotecas,
la Sociedad de la Información en acción.



Estimados Colegas

le reenvio el "Manifiesto de Alexandria sobre las
Bibliotecas, la Sociedad de la Información en
acción", adoptado por IFLA el 11 de noviembre.

Lo encuentran en Iflanet:
http://www.ifla.org/III/wsis/AlexandriaManifesto.html

Alli encontrarán otras declaraciones de IFLA
realizadas tambien en la Preconferencia de Alezandria
y en el Congreso Mundial en Oslo: "The Alexandria
Proclamation on Information Literacy and Lifelong
Learning" y "Maintaining our digital memory: a
declaration of support for the World Summit on the
Information Society. Communiqué from the Conference of
Directors of National Libraries (CDNL)".

Saludos desde Montevideo
Alicia Ocaso
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Alexandria Manifesto on Libraries, the Information
Society in Action

Libraries and information services contribute to the
sound operation of the inclusive Information Society.
They enable intellectual freedom by providing access
to information, ideas and works of imagination in any
medium and regardless of frontiers. They help to
safeguard democratic values and universal civil rights
impartially and by opposing any form of censorship.

The unique role of libraries and information services
is that they
respond to the particular questions and needs of
individuals. This
complements the general transmission of knowledge by
the media, for example, and makes libraries and
information services vital to a democratic and open
Information Society. Libraries are essential for a
well informed citizenry and transparent governance, as
well as for the take-up of e-government. They also
build capacity by promoting information literacy and
providing support and training for effective use of
information resources, including Information and
Communication Technologies. This is especially
critical in promoting the development agenda because
human resources are central to economic progress. In
these ways libraries contribute significantly to
addressing the digital divide and the information
inequality that results from it. They help to make the
Millennium
Development Goals a reality, including reduction of
poverty. They will do! more with quite modest
investments. The value of the return is at least 4-6
times the investment.

In pursuit of the goal of access to information by all
peoples, IFLA supports balance and fairness in
copyright. IFLA is also vitally concerned to promote
multilingual content, cultural diversity and the
special needs of Indigenous peoples and minorities.

IFLA and libraries and information services share the
common vision of an Information Society for all
adopted by the World Summit on the Information Society
in Geneva in December 2003. That vision promotes an
inclusive society based on the fundamental right of
human beings both to access and to express information
without restriction and in which everyone will be able
to create, access, use and share information and
knowledge.
IFLA urges national, regional and local governments as
well as
international organisations to:

* invest in library and information services as vital
elements in their Information Society strategies,
policies and budgets;
* upgrade and extend existing library networks to
obtain the greatest possible benefits for their
citizens and communities;
* support unrestricted access to information and
freedom of expression;
* promote open access to information and address
structural and other barriers to access; and
* recognise the importance of information literacy and
vigorously
support strategies to create a literate and skilled
populace which can advance and benefit from the global
Information Society.


Adopted in Alexandria, Egypt, Bibliotheca Alexandrina,
on 11 November 2005

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Associated documents:
Glasgow Declaration on Libraries, Information Services
and Intellectual Freedom
http://www.ifla.org/faife/policy/iflastat/gldeclar-e.html


IFLA/UNESCO Public Library Manifesto
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s8/unesco/manif.htm

IFLA/UNESCO School Library Manifesto: The school
library in teaching and learning for all
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s11/pubs/schoolmanif.htm

IFLA Internet Manifesto
http://www.ifla.org/III/misc/internetmanif.htm

Maintaining our digital memory: a declaration of
support for the World Summit on the Information
Society. Communiqué from the Conference of Directors
of National Libraries (CDNL), Oslo, August 2005.
www.ifla.org/III/wsis/declaration-CDNL2005.html

Beacons of the Information Society - Alexandria
Statement on
Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning. High level
Colloquium on Information Literacy and Lifelong
Learning, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 6-9 November 2005.
www.ifla.org/III/wsis/BeaconInfSoc.html

IFLA Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Literature
and Research
Documentation.
http://www.ifla.org/V/cdoc/open-access04.html

See http://www.ifla.org/V/cdoc/policies.htm#Manifestos
for other
statements.

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Some further facts
There are worldwide:
- more than half a million library service points,
- 15.000 km of library shelving,
- well over half a million Internet connections in
libraries,
- 1,5 trillion loan transactions each year,
- and 2.5 billion registered library users.

The claim that libraries return at least 4-6 times the
investment is supported by numerous studies. See for
example:

Svanhild Aabø. The Value of Public Libraries. Paper
presented at the World Library and Information
Congress in Oslo, August 2005.
www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/papers/119e-Aabo.pdf

Measuring our value. British Library 2003.
http://www.bl.uk/pdf/measuring.pdf

José-Marie Griffith & Donald King. Taxpayers return on
Investment in Florida Public Libraries, September
2004.
http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/bld/roi/publications.cfm

Daniel D. Barron et. al.. The Economic Impact of
Public Libraries in South Carolina, 2005.
www.libsci.sc.edu/SCEIS/home.htm
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