First National Library Congress to be Held in Dominican Republic

First National Library Congress to be Held in Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo 07/02/2011

The Ministry of Culture (MINC) will hold the First National Library and Documentation Center Congress with the goal of coordinating the country’s National Library System.

In addition, there will be two interesting workshops available on basic library organization, administrative and technical services, to be given by Colombian specialist, Edgar Delgado.

Dominican and foreign librarians will come together on August 23 and 24 to share their experiences and to participate in training workshops for all library and documentation center personnel in the Dominican Republic.

Topics that will be dealt with at the congress include: services and development of the library at the Culture Center of Spain; the second National Library Census; research on Dominican libraries; promotion of reading at libraries; workshop on the organization and cataloguing of special collections; experience of the School Library of the Politécnico Padre Fantino in Cotuí;  experience of the Antena Center for Distance Learning in Library Management; the model organization of the Pro Consumer Documentation Center and the Conservation of Collections in the General Archive of the Nation.

In addition, there will be two interesting workshops available on basic library organization, administrative and technical services, to be given by Colombian specialist, Edgar Delgado.

The congress will take place in the Auditorium of the Museum of Modern Art from 9:00 am until 5:00 pm. The event is free of charge and is open to all librarians, document researchers and cataloguers, academics and to the general public.

The Congress is being organized by the General Directorate of Books and the Reading section of the Ministry of Culture, under the direction of Eleanor Grimaldi.