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The information-documentation academic sector is considered in relation to cooperation in international development. Within this framework, the most frequent contributions made by information services and the actions in which university teaching and research is involved are described. Finally, the importance of contributing to the development and modernization of distance learning for information/ documentation professionals is underlined.

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The professional commitment of those who work in the information sector goes beyond the exercise of their technical activities. We live in a time when problems are universal. Therefore, we can’t disconnect from our tasks when we leave the workplace. The social reality ethically engages information professionals in cooperative development activities. This text reflects on this commitment and the different ways to carry it out.

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The public library and the promotion of reading is still an indissoluble tandem, meaning the library has a large responsibility for the promotion and dissemination of authors and their works. The goals of these cultural activities must be explicit and clearly defined, and must offer an added value as a public service with social impact. They do not have to follow the commercial trends or maintain the conventional formats, which sometimes are obsolete. Are current activities in the public library as useful for traditional readers as for the so-called digital natives? Are we prepared to offer activities that are attractive to young people today? In this society, characterized as the knowledge, global, multicultural, digital, 2.0 society, are public libraries able to defend their policies to promote reading?