El valor presente de la biblioteca y la información en la sociedad : acciones y expectativas

Abstract

This work addresses the concern of knowing the actions and expectations derived from the social valuea of libraries, which is a subject too vast to cover in a single volume, but of which diverse testiminies are given: the relationship between libraries and populism and the need to revalue them in the light of the liberal democracy where they have found their best expression, strength and expansion; the autonomy and self determination by establishing native libraries as information entities in constant growth and with the purpose of backing the individual welfare; the accessibility for people with disabilities in libraries where achievements and advances are highlited, as well as the importance of implementing programs that conform to the respective principles by supplying informnation services; the library in open science, which has to perform as the entity that links the scientific communities and the citizens that are interested in exercise their rights to research and to be inform themselves; libraries as articulating and appropriating citizen entities during the pandemic, their adequate performance in multiple digital enviroments and the challenges to understand the new rules for interaction in the digital world; the value of library services during the post-pandemic and how the academic and library enviroment has become more complex because it demands new skills, innovative services, information resources as well as more efficient platforms. the different routes on which the cognitive, democratic, social justice and scientific progress of libraries benefit moves is so ampla and of suc magnitude that it is imposible to consider the current society as a social and human development project without them