June 7: Cuba celebrates the librarian's Day

Provincial library of Camagüey

The librarians have a protagonistic paper in the schools in the development of the docent - educational process and the integral formation of the children, adolescents and youths.

The master in education María Rosa Sánchez Ramos, national metodologer of the primary teaching in the Ministry of Education highlighted that these specialists facilitate the existent bibliography in the educational institutions, meantime, support the teacher's work fundamentally in providing the infantile literature, to teach the correct use of the dictionary from third grade, text that have for its work all the school centers of Cuba, with what the students enlarge the vocabulary, they solve the problems of the spelling and enlarge their culture.

Sánchez Ramos added that another of the slopes of the work of the librarians is to give to the teacher texts, magazines and pamphlets of interest for his classes; also, it develops the reading habit to the students through the martian works that are important for the content that contain and the beauty of its expression; it supports the content of the study plans with the extraclass reading that are indicated of agreement with the grades.

Another aspect of its work is the competitions for subject, designed in occasions by the own school and the community.

There are also of essential help in the investigation work and the students' creation, when putting in hands of these the texts that need to carry out their studies and to deepen in certain topics.

In honor to an illustrious Cuban

June 7 ,1812 were born in Havana of the most famous Cuban intellectuals: Antonio High school and Morales, journalist, historian, lawyer and bibliographer.

Consulted founds points:” one of its more outstanding works was: Point for the History of the Letters and the Public Instruction in the Island of Cuba, important contribution to the knowledge of our cultural history published in the years 1859, 1860 and 1861. In this the first bibliographies that were elaborated in the country appears: Catalog of books and pamphlets published in Cuba from the introduction of the printing and its list of periodic publications published until the year 1840, which was published with the name of ‘Periodic Publications ' (reasoned Catalog and chronological up to 1840).

Antonio Bachiller and Morales is recognized as Father of the Cuban Bibliography, and in honor to the day of his birth was instituted June 7 like “Day of the Cuban Librarian”. (Taken of digital Radio Rebelde).