Cuban Libraries Support Group

Activities

The Cuban Libraries Support Group will:

* work with Information for Social Change, the Library Association, the Cuba Solidarity Campaign, Book Aid

and other agencies to disseminate information about the Cuban library system.

* produce articles for publication and arrange meetings which discuss the achievements of the Cuban education and library services.

* organize study tours to Cuba to visit libraries and meet with Cuban librarians and library and information workers.

* support the Cuban National Program for the Development of Reading. This is a strategic, long term program based on the collective efforts of all those groups and institutions interested in promoting books and reading among the Cuban people. These include: National Library Jose Marti; Cuban Institute for the Book; Cuban Society of Friends of the Book; Cuban Institute of Radio and Television; and the National Center of Community Culture.

For more information about the Cuban Libraries Support Group, contact John Pateman at John.Pateman@merton.gov.uk

John Pateman is a member of the Society of Chief Librarians and has visited Cuban libraries in 1993, 1995, 1999 and 2000.

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