The Educative Aspect of Public Libraries through Animation Services for Children

As a basic educational structure shaping the generations, the public library constitutes one of the most adequate places for the concentration of the forces which favour education. Based on recent observations which reveal with regret the children’s, and especially teenagers’, indifference towards or rejection of the act of reading, the present study proposes methods for raising the child-users’ interest in reading, through a programme of creative training based on the interaction of numerous sources, texts, images, sounds, puppets, etc., in the toy library of the children’s section, organized as an area for the training of future readers and for bringing children closer to spiritual values by means of books.

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