"This publication has its genesis in the recommendations and proceedings of UNESCO-supported th international conferences and workshops including the 4 International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL2001, Bangalore); the International Conferences on Digital Libraries (ICDL2004 & ICDL2006,
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New Delhi); and the International Workshop on Greenstone Digital Library software (2006, Kozhikode), where many information professionals of this sub-region demonstrated their Digital Library and Open Access Initiatives. It discusses successful activities in the South Asia subregion bringing closer to the worldwide audience, the subject of access to scholarly literature and documentary heritage. This may thus be considered an authoritative source-book on Open Access Development in this sub-region." (Foreword)
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"This World Bank study discusses secondary textbook and school library availability in Africa, its cost and financing, and its distribution and publishing. The study’s objective was to analyze the issues and provide some options and strategies for improvement. Reforms are urgently required in the
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secondary school systems of most African countries in order to: (i) reduce the number of textbooks and reference books required by secondary education curricula; (ii) reduce the unit costs of textbooks; (iii) increase the target book life thus increasing cost amortization and reducing annual textbook fees/budgets; (iv) increase the financing allocated to textbook provision from either government or parents, and (v) ensure that curricula change does not make expensive materials redundant too early or too often. The authors of the study believe that if a reliable market exists local publishing can develop to service it, even in direct competition with multinationals; and that the market does not necessarily have to be large, but that the critical factor is predictability. If publishers are confident that funding will be available, from whatever source, year after year, then local publishing will emerge to serve that market. This, it is argued, is perhaps most clearly demonstrated in Botswana where a tiny but reliable and reasonably predictable secondary school sector has five competing approved textbooks in some secondary subjects." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2556)
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"A través de experiencias, protocolos, estrategias y bibliografÃa (especialmente accesos web) este libro permite echar un vistazo a la realidad de las bibliotecas destinadas a las poblaciones aborÃgenes de las islas de OceanÃa, las cuales poseen algunos de los estándares más avanzados en esta
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categorÃa de unidades de información." (edgardocivallero.com)
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"This manual is the result of initial activities developed together with our partner in Peru, the Asociación ETC Andes. It is an attempt to develop a method which will help people to document their experiences, focusing on the detailed description and analysis of a set of activities carried out in
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the field and their results and impact. The method has proved to be adaptable enough to be relevant for many different circumstances – it can be used to document single, short activities, projects, or for longer and more complex programmes. As our work in Latin America and elsewhere has shown, it can be carried out by community based groups or organisations, NGOs, networks or large institutions. We think that this manual can be a very useful guide for all those who understand the importance of drawing lessons from the activities they are implementing in the field. We do hope it will stimulate field level practitioners to deepen their learning and share this with others in an organised way, and thus to build new and relevant knowledge." (Foreword, pages 7-8)
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"Los siguientes capÃtulos de esta guÃa práctica, planteada por la UNESCO desde su programa de comunicación para América Latina con sede en San José, y encomendada por la Organización para su producción a Radio Nederland Training Centre – Latinoamérica, tienen como objetivo central asistir
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a los radiodifusores de toda Latinoamérica en los procesos de transferencia a formato digital. Sin duda, tan actual iniciativa y excelente factura profesional constituye un aporte sustancial que ofrece información útil, amigable y de fácil didáctica para cualquier trabajo de recuperar las memorias sonoras contenidas en las diversas y numerosas fonotecas y otros archivos de emisoras de radio y centros de producción radiofónica de América Latina." (Presentación, página 7)
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