| Ana Maria Runkel
Ana Maria Runkel has a MA in History and Social Demography and
a post-graduate qualification in Library Science from Lisbon University.
Responsible for the direction and management of the Libraries and
Information Service since 1987. Long experience in restructuring
and development of public and school library services. She has participate
in several European projects (Chilias, Hercule, Publica) , and is
now member of the Management Board of PULMAN.
Abstract of Ana Maria Runkel's speach
"Share knowledge, support learning - targeted and responding
to need"
A Europe that pretends to be integrative and able to grow in a world
where transition and novelty prevail, learning and teaching seems
to be the path to follow.
The Information and Knowledge Society that we want, must be build
in active communities where continuous learning, studying, individual
research and the wish to learn happen in a systematic way.
In this context the Public Library, assuming itself as part of a
wide net where relationships among socially participative actors
are promoted, and social resources are created, appears as a point
of production and emission of intangible capital (human, cultural
and communitarian). To promote a learning attitude that grows in
an exponential spiral from the interaction and share of knowledge
and doubts, seems to be the leading path for all the actors that
pretend to be effective interveners on our Society, a Society that
we all want to became educative and open to learning.
Learning trough life, to live the importance of affection and care,
to believe in the importance of raising well-prepared actors to
manage change, to manage discontinuity, as always been the Oeiras
Public Library vision.
To create and promote learning environments where training and
leisure are harmoniously combined in an atmosphere of aesthetic
and beauty and therefore contribute to the production of the community's
intangible capital, as always been our "leitmotiv".
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