The book in Globalization times.

Information about the presentation by Tomás Eloy Marínez discussed during the "World Library and Information Congress: 70th IFLA General Conference and Council" held on August 22 to 27, 2004 in Buenos Aires, Argentina is presented. It highlighted the Babylonian poem "Gilgamesh," carved in a tiny clay tablet in a lost corner of the British Museum in London, England. It explored the interchange of a book with the community, during ancient times, when people heard the words of a book.