PUBLIC LIBRARY JULIO ANTONIO MELLA

The Provincial Library Julio Antonio Mella is located in historical downtown, Camaguey city, across from beautiful Ignacio Agramonte Park . It was founded on June 1, 1963 and it is attended by a technically trained library staff who offers dynamic and efficient services. The Library has more 230000 volumes in stock, 86000 library users per year, and provides 146000 loans and other services –as a result of its wide and systematic activities of extension work and reading promotion, not only in the library itself, but also in the community. Nowadays, it is compiling local bibliographies and developing bibliotecological researches. It functions as both the Provincial Library and as the head of the provincial public libraries system, which comprises 30 libraries located in twelve municipalities and rural areas.

MISSION

Library's mission is directed towards the conservation, protection and dissemination of book collection and the promotion of reading, too by means of different actions and activities.

LENDINDG DEPARTMENT

It is composed of the Registration Department and the rooms dealing with general information, rare books, general literature, literature for children, literature for the young, visuals arts, music, and extension work. Each room keep very valuables collections according to its thematic outline and readers' interest.

PRINCIPAL SERVICES

Book lending, local lending of serials and audiovisuals materials, reference works (by phone and mail); services of bibliographical search, vertical file, cassette recording, musical auditions, concerts, library exhibitions, and other interesting activities.

SELECTION, ACQUISITION AND TECHNICAL PROCESSING DEPARTMENT

It has the responsibility of selecting, acquiring and processing library materials which the Institution obtains through different means. Besides, there are others important areas: Conservation and Computers. The WEB page is update. It is working on the Iberoamerican Digital Library Project.

SPECIAL AREAS

Minerva Book Club. The Public Library founded it five years ago to provide more books to readers. This collection comprises by new books from Cuban and foreign writers, or recently acquired by the National or provincial Libraries.

BLINDS AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE DEPARTMENT

It has a collection of books and magazines in Braille and offers “talking book”, rehabilitation, and teaching services for blinds and visually impaired; as well as home reading and extension work. This Area was founded in 1983.

OUR ACTIVITIES

Our cultural and reading promotion activities have gained real reputation due to the librarians' commitment and dedication. These activities are supported by a close link between the Public Library and different cultural institution.

• Wednesday's Concert. Second Wednesday at 3:00 pm.

• Young Performers. Third Wednesday at 4:00 pm.

- Camagueyana Conversation Last Monday at 5:00 pm.

• Movie Club Glauber Rocha. Third Thursday at 8:00 pm.

• Literature and much more… Last Friday at 10:00 am.

• Literary Saturday for children. Second Saturday at 10:00 am.

FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG

The Children's and Young's Rooms have lovely developed several activities for reading promotion such as reading teams and workshop concerning Braille system, theater, painting, readers, story telling, literature, contest and games. Besides, these rooms have been awarded the International Prize Chamán and the National Prize Cuentería for yours systematic work in story telling for children.

LIBRARY AND THE COMMUNITY

It is a long-range project which serves people's needs in Camaguey city and its sorroundings, but it specially involves the assistance to disadvantaged persons. The Library offers services to people in health institutions, prisons, and also to the handicapped. Children Room carries out a weekly biblioterapy program , and other activities which require our spiritual and human support.

ANNUAL EVENTS

• Camagueyanos Writers Meeting, February

• Braille Workshop Reading , April.

• Scientific Workshop Bibliotecological, June.

• Special Areas Meeting, June.

• Children's Workshop National Story Telling, November.

DESK SCHEDULE

Monday to Friday: 8:00am.- 9:00 pm.

Saturday: 8:00am.-4:00 pm.

Sunday: 9:00am.- 1:00pm.

Fifty years for the Cuban Revolution

By: Yuldys Márquez Díaz

The history of the Cuban Revolution could not be counted without relating it with the work of the Organs of the Security of the State. Been founded to only three months of having triumphed our Revolution, on March 26, 1959, as Department of Security of the Cuban State.

Many people asked oneself how much it would ascend the Cuban death toll if this army of men and women that live between the light and silence had not existed.

Since five decades they accompany to the town in the march of the revolutionary process that gave him the life.

Anonymous heroes that in occasions since the own bowels of the imperialism defend the homeland of actions terrorists as sabotages, murders, attacks against the life of the directing maxima of the revolution, assaults, poisonings, kidnappings and explosions of bombs among others.

The work of the Organs of Security of the State becomes indispensable shield to be able to continue building with rightness the Cuban society. The combatants that work in it, heroes and martyrs of all the prowesses, deserve the recognition of an entire town that is proud of having them for always.

Fifty years for the Cuban Revolution

By: Yuldys Márquez Díaz

The history of the Cuban Revolution could not be counted without relating it with the work of the Organs of the Security of the State. Been founded to only three months of having triumphed our Revolution, on March 26, 1959, as Department of Security of the Cuban State.

Many people asked oneself how much it would ascend the Cuban death toll if this army of men and women that live between the light and silence had not existed.

Since five decades they accompany to the town in the march of the revolutionary process that gave him the life.

Anonymous heroes that in occasions since the own bowels of the imperialism defend the homeland of actions terrorists as sabotages, murders, attacks against the life of the directing maxima of the revolution, assaults, poisonings, kidnappings and explosions of bombs among others.

The work of the Organs of Security of the State becomes indispensable shield to be able to continue building with rightness the Cuban society. The combatants that work in it, heroes and martyrs of all the prowesses, deserve the recognition of an entire town that is proud of having them for always.

Cuba and Ecuador Strengthen Cooperation in Biotechnology

HAVANA, Cuba, March 24 (acn) Cuban specialists from the Havana-based Center of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (CIGB) are in Ecuador as part of Cuba's interest in strengthening bilateral cooperation with this South American nation.

According to the website of Granma news daily, the Cuban experts are visiting the Leopoldo Izquieta Hygiene Institute in Guayaquil aiming at developing joint projects with Ecuador.

An official communiqué announced that the CIGB specialists will discuss with their Ecuadorian counterparts the possibility of providing the necessary technology to build a plant to produce the Cuban Pentavalent vaccine and other medicines there.

This technical visit to Ecuador is part of a bilateral project to develop products and for technological transfer that was agreed with the National Secretariat of Science and Technology of Ecuador (SENACYT) during the visit to Havana last January of Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa.

On Tuesday, the Cuban specialists will give a press conference at the Leopoldo Izquieta Hygiene Institute along with SENACYT officials.

(Expertos cubanos en Ecuador para estrechar nexos bilaterales)

Meteorological Center will give information about solar radiation

Por:Lucilo Tejera Díaz

Camagüey, March 24 (AIN) The Station Lidar, of the Institute of Meteorology, implements a service of information for diverse organisms with data on the climatological behavior of the solar radiation in Camagüey.

With base in this city, the Meteorological Center of Camagüey possesses a series of observations of the radiation values since 1970, considered as very useful to know about the possible impacts of the global climatic change.

Juan Carlos Antuña, to the front of the team Lidar, pointed out that this information is advantageous for sectors like the agriculture, the tourism and the human health, which will begin to use it for its activities.

At the moment the Center is buried in the digitalization of all the data, and it already covers 25 years.

The objective of the Station Lidar is the checking and investigation of estratosferics aerosols on the climate in Camagüey, Cuba and the Great Caribbean, and compares its mensurations with those of other remote sensors, as those installed on board satellites.

This work team has benefitted of the collaboration of the University of Valladolid, in Spain, with which settled down in the 2007 an agreement and soon will sign another one more.

Camagüey receives today to Holguín, in leaders' bereavement

By:José Luis López
Havana, March 24 (AIN) In an interesting bereavement of leaders, Camagüey receives today Holguín, in the court of the stadium Patricio Lumumba, in the date 28 of the National Championship of Soccer.

The people from Camagüey, unbeaten in their last seven exits to the grass, they lead the group C with 45 points. As long as, the square of Holguin passed to head the complicated and burning key D, with 36 lines.

For the people from Camagüey will go to the court, among other, the lethal battering ram Osmani Montero who possesses 13 goals and shares the second square of the leadership in that important department with the pinero Yoandri Puga. The biggest perforator in the contest is the tunero Maikel Celada that has 15 reveilles.

While, City of Havana (39), pointer of the segment A, receives Matanzas (20) in the Polar court, and Villa Clara (48), to the front of the group B and maximum owner of points, will move to New Gerona to be measured to Island of the Youth (28).

The day is completed with the comparisons Pinegrove of the River (36)-Cienfuegos (45), Havana (23)-industrial (38), Santiago de Cuba (35)-Sancti Spíritus (38), Guantánamo (22)-Ciego of Ávila (34) and The Tunas (34)-Granma (35), always in land of the first ones.

To the domestic tournament only subtract three days so that the classificatory stage culminates. To the phase of end rooms the four group leaders, and the other four teams of better punctuation will advance.

Japan Wins World Baseball Classic Title Again

HAVANA, Cuba, March 24 (acn) With a hard-fought 5-3 win against South Korea in 10 innings Monday night, Japan won their second straight World Baseball Classic and remained atop the international baseball world.

Ichiro Suzuki lined a two-out, two-strike single to center field off Chang Yong Lim to drive in two runs in the 10th and ignite a celebration from Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles to Tokyo.

“I believe that Ichiro’s hit is something I’ll never forget,” said atsunori Hara, the Japanese manager. “It’s an image that will forever be imprinted in my mind.”

The Japanese were one out from winning in the ninth, but Yu Darvish, a starter who was asked to close, could not stifle South Korea. Darvish walked two batters to put himself in a dicey position, then Bum Ho Lee lashed a two-out single to left to make it 3-3.

But, one inning later, Suzuki powered his team and pleased a baseball-obsessed country. Darvish was given a second opportunity to silence the South Koreans in the 10th and he produced a scoreless inning. Darvish ended the game with a strikeout and notched the win, but it was Suzuki
who saved it. The South Koreans decided not to intentionally walk Suzuki, who batted with runners on second and third, and the decision doomed them.

Japanese starter Daitsuke Matsuzaka was chosen as the Most Valuable Player of the tournament like three years ago. On this occasion he finished with a 3-0 win-loss record and a 2.45 earned-run-average.

The third World Baseball Classic will take place in 2013.


(Japón revalida el título en Clásico Mundial de Béisbol)

Cuba has over 10,000 Health Technology Graduates

HAVANA, Cuba, March 24 (acn) Cuba has trained over 10,000 health technology graduates since this specialty was created as a university degree course in the 2003-2004 academic year, which has contributed to expanding health services.

The Dean of the Health Technology Faculty of Havana’s Higher Institute of Medical Sciences, Julio Portal MSc., explained that this program of the Revolution, devised by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro in 2002, makes it possible for the massive preparation of students in the country’s 169 municipalities, by way of a program created to universalize university teaching.

The increase in the amount of qualified human resources has made it possible to expand services and to bring them closer to the communities, with a higher level of satisfaction from the population, since they include from primary to tertiary medical attention, added the dean.

At present, there are almost 90,000 youngsters being trained in the four health technology faculties, located in the provinces of Havana, Camaguey, Villa Clara and Santiago de Cuba.

In the remaining provinces, the degree course is studied at the Faculties of Medical Sciences, now in a process of change to become medical universities, pointed out Portal.

Cuba’s achievements in this field are on display since Monday at the International Convention on Technology and Health underway at Havana’s Convention Center until Friday.

The meeting includes 10 events, with themes related to podiatry, optometry, optics, external fixators, nutrition, aesthetics, healthy life styles, and oral health.

(Posee Cuba 10 mil licenciados en tecnología de la salud)

Literacy Teaching in Honduras Supported by ALBA

HAVANA, Cuba, March 24 (acn) Honduras will receive financing from the Bolivarian Alternative for The Americas (ALBA), in order to declare that nation free of illiteracy in January 2010, a campaign that will count on Cuba’s advice.

Education Minister Marlon Brevé said that the Venezuelan donation, consisting of ten million dollars, will make it possible to complete the necessary resources to fight this decisive educational battle.

The Minister pointed out that the first benefits in this regard began in 2008, with the delivery of just over a million dollars, Prensa Latina news agency reports.

The elimination of illiteracy with the help of the Cuban method, Yes I Can, is one of the main legacies that President Manuel Zelaya hopes to leave when he finishes his term of office.

At present, the Central American nation has some 750,000 illiterates, but, over the last three years, 250,000 Hondurans have learned how to read and write by way of the program devised in Cuba.

For the time being, the goal is to bring the number of illiterates down to 4%, the average rate demanded by the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization in order to declare a nation free of that scourge.

The Honduran minister announced that the official declaration of the first eight municipalities free of illiteracy will be made in April 17.

Moreover, a new project to increase the educational level of those who have already learned how to read and write, by way of the plan called “I Can Continue”, which students will pass in a period ranging from two to three years, is under study.

(Apoya el ALBA la alfabetización de Honduras)

Cuban Music Festival Celebrated in Japan

HAVANA, Cuba, March 24 (acn) A great Cuban music festival has been held in Tokyo, the Japanese capital, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the Cuba-Japan diplomatic relations.

The presentation, that took place at the Ueno Park amphitheatre, in the municipality of Taito, in greater Tokio, included a motley of Cuban musical genres, showing the artistic level of Japanese interpreters.

Internationally known Cuban choreographer and dancer Narciso Medina, was in charge of the artistic production and direction of the show, which drew hundreds of Cuban music fans.

The rhythmic diversity, form and richness of sound of the music from the archipelago, masterly interpreted by amateur artists, were transmitted to the audience, some of whom closed the night by enthusiastically sharing the stage with the artists.

(Gran festival de música cubana en Japón)