The Public Library System in the City of Madrid

Authors

  • José Osorio Palazuelos

Abstract

The City of Madrid's offer of Public Library Facilities is both complex and confusing for the uninitiated. This is due to its previous poverty of means and the lack of any overall intitutionalized planning or managing. Although there has been a Regional Library Plan on the books for some two years now and a Community of Madrid Library Law to back it up, these first and needful steps have not been followed up with those necessary agreements and plans on the part of the local government bodies involved that could implement such legislation on this area of inadequacy. Within this overview, the paper describes the results of studies as to its public library services made by the Madrid City Hall, one of the most important of these being here seen as that which uncovers that the system is built on the small neighbourhood library, as this set up lends itself well to the premises behind the previously mentioned Regional Libraries Plan which, in its turn, tries to keep, as far as it can do, to the recommendations as to city public library facilities for cities of over 400,000 inhabitants made by ITAMEL (International Federation of Library Associations). The paper is rounded off by a call on the Madrid City Hall to draw up a Municipal Libraries Plan with which to face up to a call for development in this area in keeping with the realities of the city.

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Published

1991-12-16

How to Cite

Osorio Palazuelos, J. (1991). The Public Library System in the City of Madrid. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, (90), 119–132. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/83769

Issue

Ciudad y Territorio. Ciencia Urbana. Núm. 90 (1991)

Section

Articulos

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Copyright (c) 1991 José Osorio Palazuelos

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