{"id":10630,"date":"2018-06-07T01:38:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T01:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/?p=10630"},"modified":"2018-06-09T23:42:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T23:42:59","slug":"comite-ejecutivo-de-acuril-visita-biblioteca-juan-bosch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/comite-ejecutivo-de-acuril-visita-biblioteca-juan-bosch\/","title":{"rendered":"ACURIL Executive Committee Visits \u00a0 Juan Bosch Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo, June 7, 2018 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Former Dominican President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez met with the executive committee of the Association of University, Research and Institutional Libraries of the Caribbean (ACURIL) which is meeting in Santo Domingo to celebrate its 48th<\/sup> Conference.\u00a0 During the meeting, held at the Juan Bosch Library, President Fern\u00e1ndez stated that the opening of more libraries could help strengthen reading habits among students.<\/p>\n

During the open discussion, the president of the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (Funglode) discussed the role played by libraries with the visiting members of ACURIL\u2019s executive committee. This year\u2019s conference is titled \u201cOpen Access to Libraries, Archives and Museums in the Caribbean:\u00a0 Opportunities, Challenges and Future Goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Fern\u00e1ndez, accompanied by Aida Montero, director of the Juan Bosch Library and member of the Conference\u2019s organizing committee, greeted the visiting members upon their arrival at the Library.<\/p>\n

During the open dialogue Fern\u00e1ndez lamented that students are no longer encouraged to fall in love with the art of reading.\u00a0 In this context, he stated that libraries can play a fundamental role in encouraging students to read.\u00a0 He also explained that strengthening good reading practices cannot be carried out on an individual basis, but must be a result of a collective process because \u201cone always learns through sharing, and not alone.\u201d He also added that a possible strategy could be the creation of \u201cstudent reading circles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr.\u00a0 Fern\u00e1ndez expressed how pleased he was that the ACURIL Conference chose Santo Domingo as the venue for its event, and added that libraries are important to local culture and education.<\/p>\n

Luisa Vigo, ACURIL\u2019s Executive Secretary, headed the delegation that visited the Library which consisted of library directors and researchers from various Caribbean nations. The Association of Dominican University Libraries (ABUD) and the Dominican Association of University Deans (ADRU) participated in the event.<\/p>\n

Before the meeting with former President Fern\u00e1ndez, Montero gave the visitors a guided tour through the five-floor library building and showed them the various collections that are available to the general public.<\/p>\n

ACURIL 2018 brings together professionals that work with the information and research sectors interested in studying the multiple issues characteristic of the Caribbean region. During the conference participants will discuss, among other issues: the multi-disciplinary aspects related to library research, archives and museums in the Caribbean; research in such areas as sociology, economics and politics in the Caribbean; research related to the Environment, Architecture and Health in the Caribbean. Finally, Libraries, Archives and Museums of the Caribbean in the digital era.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo, June 7, 2018 \u2013\u00a0Former Dominican President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez met with the executive committee of the Association of University, Research and Institutional Libraries of the Caribbean (ACURIL) which is meeting in Santo Domingo to celebrate its 48th Conference.\u00a0 During the meeting, held at the Juan Bosch Library, President Fern\u00e1ndez stated that the opening of … Continue reading “ACURIL Executive Committee Visits \u00a0 Juan Bosch Library”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10676,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630\/revisions\/10676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}