Multiculturalism and functional diversity in the service charters and web sites of the Spanish state public libraries and university libraries
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https://doi.org/10.54886/ibersid.v15i1.4747Keywords:
Multiculturalism, Functional diversity, Service charters, Web sites, State public libraries, University libraries, SpainAbstract
The level of involvement that the 53 state public libraries and the 76 university libraries of Spain have with their multicultural and functional diversity groups is analyzed. For that, their service charters and their web sites were checked for explicit mentions of special services and resources for the aforementioned groups. As a main result, we obtain that both multiculturalism and people with functional diversity are underrepresented in the service charters of both types of libraries, with percentages of less than 5 % for multiculturalism and 35 % for functional diversity, and although these results are higher in the web sites of both library types, with percentages of less than 29 % for the multicultural community and 45 % for people with functional diversity, we cannot conclude favorably, since we consider it important to promote social awareness about the positive values of multiculturalism and functional diversity from the 100 % of public and university libraries.
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