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User-centered libraries allow for the development of life skills. The importance of this capacity lies in the fact that one of the main focal points of education in the 21st century is 21st century skills. Organizations such as Unesco, EU, P21, AT, Annex, OECD, Nets, Naep, enGauge, etc. support this perspective and propose lists of skills needed to perform in today's society. However, what is the right place to acquire these skills? Although the first answer would be the school, this paper aims at explaining how libraries are the right places for the development of skills when they are able to deploy their capacity to be informal education centers. Being this a personal report, the paper shows different examples based on my personal experience, both related to the influence libraries had on the author and to the way the author, as a librarian, influences other users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Se analizan las medidas implementadas en la Biblioteca Pública Arroyo de la Miel para desarrollar una programación de actividades variada, diseñada para el ciudadano y dirigida a la comunidad, adaptando espacios y conciliando necesidades. Se describe la tipología de actividades que se desarrolla en el periodo 2014- 2016 y la respuesta de los usuarios a estas iniciativas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a study to probe the motivation of librarians to develop public library Web sites for young adults. Connections has been drawn between the findings of the study and research about teens and about their Internet usage. The related implications for Web site development has been discussed with an emphasis on the requirement for librarians to not only acknowledge teens' developmental needs but to take into consideration their expectations of Web technologies.