Many tend to think that the job of those who work in libraries is to sort books and silence people while others read. Rosidalia García, a 63-year-old library scientist, explains that she has transcended and fulfilled several roles with her profession; among them, knowing about information and communication technologies to guide other people, promote reading, perform data mining, advise information projects and work in libraries. Passionate about her work, she has been teaching courses at the Faculty of Humanities for 25 years, training librarians at the University of San Carlos de Guatemala (Usac).
Passionate about her work, she has been teaching courses in the humanities faculty for 25 years, training librarians at the University of San Carlos in Guatemala.
García pays tribute with reading to his father Rolando – now deceased – who remembers that he was an avid reader and was in charge of training human resources at a hotel chain. He cut out and pasted phrases on various walls that he found in newspapers, magazines and books to motivate the staff. Also, they read Prensa Libre together every morning at breakfast for more than 40 years, a habit that he still maintains. Currently, he collects academic articles or articles related to libraries and valuable phrases like his father did. He likes various sections of the morning newspaper, including social, opinion, culture, Formalibros, Revista Chicos and Revista D.
“Reading has always been my vice; every morning I read Prensa Libre while I have breakfast, a tradition inherited from my father.”
Rosidalia Garcia
Motivation for young people
The librarian hopes that there are more free libraries at the national and departmental level so that Guatemalans become interested in reading. Motivates young people to create the habit of reading and newspapers to have a historical memory, analyze and make informed decisions for the country.
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