"La presente GuÃa orientadora para la gestión de colecciones en bibliotecas escolares está dirigida a bibliotecarios escolares, docentes, rectores de las instituciones educativas y lÃderes de calidad de las Entidades Territoriales Certificadas en Educación (ETC). En ella se brindan herramientas
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para desarrollar los procesos de selección, adquisición y evaluación de las colecciones bibliográficas y digitales de las bibliotecas escolares, teniendo en cuenta que este es un proceso permanente que garantiza la actualización, la pertinencia y la preparación fÃsica y técnica de los materiales en la biblioteca; que contribuye a que las colecciones de la biblioteca escolar evolucionen de acuerdo con los objetivos institucionales y los ajustes curriculares, asà como con los intereses de la comunidad educativa según su diversidad etaria, su contexto y sus particularidades culturales. Los materiales considerados en dichos procesos son libros de literatura, libros informativos de las diferentes áreas del conocimiento y libros de referencia. La diversidad de materiales amplÃa las posibilidades de relación espontánea de los niños, niñas, adolescentes y jóvenes con el conocimiento y con la lectura autónoma, al tiempo que expande las experiencias de enseñanza y aprendizaje. No se incluyen textos escolares, pues su contenido y metodologÃa se circunscriben a los objetivos de las asignaturas curriculares y hacen parte de los bibliobancos, no de la biblioteca escolar; sin embargo, los dos tipos de recursos se complementan en las actividades de consulta y lectura de los y las estudiantes." (Introducción, página 10)
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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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"The aim of this study was to examine some of the models through which the school population in Africa gain access to supplementary reading material, and to reach some conclusions which methods work best, and in which circumstances, and to recommend strategies that are affordable and sustainable. Gi
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ven the lack of published data, it was decided that a case study approach was the most feasible and practical. A range of different modalities were examined and evaluated in depth in seven different African countries: school library services (Ghana and Tanzania); school libraries (Mali); NGO-supported classroom libraries (South Africa); book box libraries (Mozambique); teachers resource centres (Kenya); and community resources centres (Botswana). The case studies, carried out by academics and librarians in these countries, highlight various issues which contribute to the effectiveness, or otherwise, of ways of providing access to supplementary education materials to school pupils in Africa. Many of the case studies conclude that a corollary of any strategy to provide supplementary reading materials is local book production, and the way forward is to develop a viable indigenous publishing industry in tandem with improved professional training of teachers, and in teaching with books. The book includes an extensive bibliography." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1884)
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"Les bibliothèques scolaires n'ont pas seulement pour but de donner aux élèves la possibilité de se livrer à la lecture d'ouvrages classiques ou populaires — Leur rôle est de les encourager à apprendre à mieux lire et à mieux comprendre — C'est pourquoi deux bibliothèques ont été crÃ
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©Ã©es à Lagos, en 1965, avec l'aide de l'Unesco — Une bibliothèque pédagogique a été mise au service du personnel de l'enseignement — En marge de la formation, sur place, des bibliothécaires, l'Unesco a fourni depuis lors au Nigéria des bourses d'études et un matériel important — Pour l'auteur, le moment est venu, à présent, d'envisager la création de nouvelles bibliothèques scolaires dans les autres régions du Nigéria." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 305, topic code 19)
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"Role, creation, organisation and administration of school libraries in West Africa." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 564, topic code 19)