"The objective of this guide is to help teachers, volunteer teachers and librarians, and community leaders set up libraries where there are none and promote the use of community libraries that already exist. This guide helps community librarians set up libraries while engaging the full community in
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the process. This guide also provides community librarians ways to encourage children to read, to build children’s listening and reading comprehension and social and emotional skills, and to help parents and caregivers learn how they can support their children’s literacy." (Introduction)
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"The aim of the report has been to identify data about reading habits of the population in a selection of countries, then to summarise them. Our hope is that this report will form an empirical base and a starting point for further research and discussions regarding this important topic for the inter
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national publishing industry. The results can be summed up as the following: There is a global and clear trend that the traditional reading of books has declined over the last 20 years; The level of decrease in reading varies from country to country; In many countries the curve has flattened, and there is now a slight increase; The decline is strongest in the younger age groups, specifically for older youth and young adults; Women generally read more than men. Older readers are the most faithful readers; More readers read fewer books than before; More readers read less frequently; The number of readers who read every day is decreasing, while the number of readers reading several times a week is increasing; The number of non-readers is declining; Several countries show an increase in leisure reading; There are plenty of reading stimulation activities directed at children, fewer for adults; Reading stimulation activities are often quantitative, such as reading competitions rewarding the highest amount of read pages; Many reading activities are directed at children and aim to stimulate reading during holidays; There are also reading measures that have a qualitative focus, for example days focusing on reading out loud, book purchasing or particular dissemination activities; • Book donations are important in many countries in order to augment the selection of books." (Executive summary)
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"Bücher für alle verfügbar und zugänglich zu machen, war oberste Zielsetzung der Buchförderungsprogramme der UNESCO. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Maßnahmen, die die UNESCO weltweit zur Verbesserung der Produktions- und Distributionsstrukturen des Buches durchführte, und geht Fragen n
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ach der Funktion des Buches in der Gesellschaft nach. Unterschiedlich strukturierte Buchmärkte werden in weltweit vergleichender Betrachtung einander gegenübergestellt." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Este documento resume los principales logros del proyecto de investigación 'Lectura, escritura y desarrollo en la sociedad de la información' encargado por el Cerlalc y la AECID. La identidad del proyecto está en la forma de entender las experiencias de lectoescrituras: no como procesos aislados
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sino como ámbitos de comunicación en los que se provocan cambios culturales. El equipo ha sido dirigido por Jesús Martín-Barbero, coordinado por Gemma Lluch Crespo y Roxana Morduchowicz y conformado por Pablo Andrade, Patricia Correa, Alma Martínez y Anderson Tibau. Los países participantes han sido Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, México, España y Portugal. La elaboración y posterior redacción del documento ha sido realizada por Jesús Martín-Barbero y Gemma Lluch Crespo. Los resultados de la investigación se dirigen, principalmente, a los políticos, a quienes queremos comunicar que hablar de políticas de lectoescrituras dirigidas a los ciudadanos de cualquier edad y condición no es hablar de enseñarles a leer y a escribir (o no sólo eso), es hablar de la creación de espacios y medios en los que puedan contar su propia historia; que pensar los tiempos en las políticas no es lo mismo que pensarlos en las culturas: las políticas culturales sólo perviven, sólo dan todos los resultados si se insertan en las memorias y en las experiencias sociales de las comunidades y las personas." (Presentación, página 11)
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"Obwohl sich Kolumbien inzwischen zu einem der wichtigsten Buchexporteure Lateinamerikas entwickelt hat, ist die rasante Entwicklung der kolumbianischen Buchproduktion und Buchkultur bisher im Verborgenen verlaufen. Inka Ihmels bietet eine vor Ort recherchierte Darstellung der vier wichtigsten Einfl
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ussfaktoren der Buchkultur in Kolumbien: Die Entwicklung des kolumbianischen Buchmarktes, die Entstehung des Kinder- und Jugendbuchmarktes, das Wachstum der kolumbianischen Bibliothekslandschaft und das Wirken der verschiedenen Institutionen zur Leseförderung. Die Verbreitung des Buches in der kolumbianischen Gesellschaft wird aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln beleuchtet und die wichtigsten Akteure auf dem Buchmarkt, in der Bibliothekslandschaft und in der Leseförderung vorgestellt." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"The result of a workshop held during the Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Librarians (SCESAL) held in Johannesburg in April 2002, this volume reviews current reader development activities by public libraries in different regions of Africa. It includes accounts and case st
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udies by contributors from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, covering predominantly work with children, but with three papers devoted to adult reader development. An introduction provides a summary of the papers, and reviews factors such as availability and accessibility of relevant books, the importance of building partnerships with other interested sectors, aspects of training, monitoring and evaluation, and the need for the establishment of reader development policies." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2213)
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"The theme of the 2001 Indaba at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair was devoted to “Changing People’s Lives: Promoting a Reading Culture in Africa”, and this volume brings together 34 of the papers that were presented, together with a record of some of the discussions that took place followi
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ng each presentation, the conclusions from some sessions, and concluding remarks. Papers are presented in five parts: Plenary Sessions, Publishing, Writing, Scholarship, and Policy & Access. The papers – from contributors in anglophone, francophone, lusophone, and North Africa – examine some of the “obstacles and opportunities inherent in the ambiguities of the continent’s complex post-colonial linguistic inheritance.” What are publishers, writers, booksellers, and governments doing, or not doing, to overcome these obstacles? Is the indigenous linguistic richness of the continent a drawback or a benefit for the publisher? Participants in the Policy & Access sessions also addressed issues such as strategies for targeting readers, strategies for promoting readership, and policy implications for developing a reading culture." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2232)
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"Cette étude et cette bibliographie traitent des attitudes africaines à l'égard du livre, des habitudes de lecture et des politiques de promotion d'une culture de la lecture. La bibliographie fournit des détails sur 218 références bibliographiques, la plupart en français, mais aussi un bon no
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mbre d'articles et d'autres documents en anglais. Chaque entrée fait l'objet d'une annotation descriptive assez complète." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2172)
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"Describes the many obstacles involved with literacy promotion in the developing nations of Africa, Asia, and South America. The authors of the 10 articles in this collection share their knowledge and experience of literacy promotion in the developing world, including the challenges faced by those w
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ho publish, print, and distribute reading materials with limited support and resources. The articles also offer suggestions and possible solutions for increasing the developing world's access to quality indigenous reading materials. Among papers included are: “Reading in Developing Countries: Problems and Issues” (Vincent Greaney); “Developing Local Publishing Capacity for Children's Literature” (Tony Read); “Promoting Children's Book Publishing in Anglophone Africa” (Scott Walter); and “Donated Book Programs: An Interim Measure” (Rosamaria Durand and Suzanne M. Deehy)." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2174)
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