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- Abstract:
- Libraries are institutions whose mission is to both conserve and disseminate information for the purposes of education, culture, and amusement. This paper analyzes the history, politics, culture, economy, and state of education in Cabo Verde, emphasizing the unique situation of libraries and Library and Information Science (LIS) on the islands. Notwithstanding their global mobility, serving the diaspora and the islands implies retaining trained LIS professionals, sustaining digital library platforms and websites, and building collections. In the spirit of comparative librarianship, this paper proposes ways in which Cabo Verde can create a new “mission” for libraries which best serves its people, honors its culture, and helps the nation to flourish in the information age.
- As bibliotecas são instituições cuja missão é de conservar e disseminar informação para apoiar o ensino, a cultura e o lazer. Através de uma análise da história, política, cultura, economia e o estado do ensino em Cabo Verde, este artigo pretende discutir a situação única de bibliotecas e a Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação (LIS) nas ilhas. Apesar da mobilidade global cabo-verdiana, servir as ilhas e a diáspora significa a retenção de profissionais de LIS, manter plataformas e websites de bibliotecas e construir coleções. No espírito da biblioteconomia comparada, este artigo propõe formas para que Cabo Verde possa construir uma nova “missão” para as bibliotecas nas ilhas que melhor sirva a sua população, homenageie a sua cultura e ajude a nação de florescer nesta era da informação.
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MacGregor, Marilla,
"Confronting Different Realities: Libraries in Cabo Verde and the Case for Comparative Librarianship"
(2022).
e-Journal of Portuguese History.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/9stg-va63
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e-Journal of Portuguese History
...The e-Journal of Portuguese History (e-JPH) (ISSN: 1645-6432) is an international peer-reviewed scholarly journal with the objective of providing publication of work on historical subjects, especially those concerning themes and topics of Portuguese history analyzed in a comparative perspective. It …