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It's explained the social and educational role of public libraries in global economic crisis situation. It's studied how to planning and fundraisig new services for unemployed people to improve thier competencies and job opportunities, and social inclusion trough libraries

The book explains the social and cultural role of public libraries, and made a theoretical approach to plannnign and marketing of cultural and social services in public libraries.

Various reflections on contemporary artistic and cultural practices, and the means to act from cultural management to achieve greater impact on the national context are presented. Experts in creating, thinking and cultural action analyze tensions in the field, with a transverse dimension, interdisciplinary, in order to develop proposals for new directions in the design of cultural activity carried out by the University, their cultural and library services.

This conference had the aimed to promote the debate on the future of public libraries, current theme by issues such as increasing digitization of works, the digital market of reading or the beginning of conception of these centers as “third place". As a result of the conference, some works on the topic were made by several professionals who participated in it, trying to go beyond the usual conference papers.

If nowadays libraries are linked to books, it is likely that in 2029, the increasing digitalization of the information will lead us to libraries without documents. Does this mean that libraries will be void of meaning? Is the role of libraries to conserve documents or to facilitate its use? We are currently witnessing a paradigm shift where we are moving from printed and scarce information to digital and abundant information. In this context, the attention of librarianship can go from information-document to the process of obtaining and using information. We should redefine the library not from a new technological framework, but from a new sociological framework: Which are the needs that libraries should embrace in a world of digital and networked information? The redefinition of the role of libraries is to reduce inequalities, namely, to fill spaces. There are three lines to do so, we can fill libraries with more information, with more processes and new functions, and we can create new uses for the library. No matter whether societies are economic, cultural, identity or any other type, the role of libraries should be to make dense societies, which means societies with less inequality.

The program of the conference was halfway through when a round table on library future took place, in which some of the invited speakers participated . The speakers were Zuza Wiorogórska, Kristiina Kontiainen, Karen Hartman and Lluis Anglada. The topics discussed included the profession, cooperation and the role of the libraries.

The continuity of libraries as a building or physical space seems to be assured in time due to its new roles. Despite the difficulties involved in anticipating the future, a prospective assessment is made on how librayr buildings will be in 2029, based on current trends.