Bibliotecas públicas y minorías culturalesmodelos de intervención bibliotecaria para la comunidad gitana

Abstract

The aim is to develop proposals for intervention librarian for the Roma minority, after analyzing educational, social, economic, etc. The specific objectives are: a) review the library rules and matching minorities and especially the Roma; b) monitoring the current role of the public library and especially its educational and social work; and c) to analyze and evaluate the different library services for the existing Roma minority in the European Union along with a number of library experiences regarding minorities as a whole. They have reached two types of results: a practical nature that revolve around a series of guidelines for action (based on a multidisciplinary approach) and other formal character, which function as tools in evaluating and organizing information of the library shares to minorities and the end result is a set of tables that allow collecting all the specific information about the gypsy community, in order to analyze, compare and evaluate any kind of librarian action with this group. The whole process developed allows to conclude that since we live in a multicultural society, the public library should be able to reflect this reality and be able to cope. However, the present library legislation is very limited not only in relation to minorities as a whole but also in relation to the Roma minority in particular. On the other hand, view library initiatives in the European Union have been sporadic and isolated before this, a comprehensive, systematic and holistic action from very different fields is needed