Abstract

VICIEDO VALDES, Miguel. LITERACY CAMPAIGNS: THE CUBAN EXPERIENCE WITHIN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY CONTEXT . ACIMED [online]. 2005, vol.13, n.2, pp. 1-1. ISSN 1024-9435.

The campaign against illiteracy is approached as a part of the great cultural work of the Cuban revolutionary goverment, as well as the contribution of public libraries to the achievement of this human goal. Experiences of the work carried out by these information units at three significant moments of their history after 1959 are shown: the national campaign against illiteracy, which made possible to teach how to read and write to a a great number of illiterates and to declare Cuba a land free of illiteracy; the start of literacy with Braille lessons for the blind and the visually weak people in the seventies; and the digital alphabetization in the use of new information technologies in a more recent stage to librarians and users, making use of the few technological resources available in these institutions.

Keywords : Alphabetization; public libraries; Cuba.

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