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CUBAN LIBRARIES
SOLIDARITY GROUP The José
Martí National Library and the National Public Library System Summary - click here for full article PDF This essay tries to give the readers a summary view of the history of the Cuban National Library José Martí, as well as its work and that of the National Public Library System (NPLS). Additionally, it mentions the essential characteristics of the NPLS. Through it, we will be able to confirm the efforts these institutions accomplish in order to lead its work, its perspectives and development plans to a good conclusion. It presents the main publications generated by the National Library. It explains to the readers the origin and significance of the imperialist blockade, trying to give a panorama of the impact that the U.S. blockade has had on the performances of the Library's work and on the cultural development in our country, by means of an inventory of the main affects it has left as a consequence. It presents examples of not only the work completed, but also of the plans for development. Additionally, distinguished U.S. colleagues are quoted, for the clarification of the misinformation and malicious plans of U.S. imperialism regarding the badly named "independent libraries" in our country. This work is, in a general sense, a call to attention for the rest of the international librarian community to know about the development of their Cuban colleagues and at times, serve as an incentive for research and analysis of the necessity to stop the brutal imperialist blockade and so that, with fair knowledge of cause, they can make a common front with colleagues that defend the justice of the work of the real Cuban librarians and they can then certify, faced with the fallacies and lies spread about Cuba and its institutions. translated by Dana
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