| Vanishing identities, saving information: Or, how libraries can recover indigenous languages through oral tradition (2008) | |||||||||||
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| The paper briefly analyses the role that libraries may fulfill within societies where oral tradition is still the main mean of knowledge transmission, and where languages are seriously endangered. The author provides a complete set of concepts about the nature of oral tradition and the current situation of languages. Afterwards, he provides his own experience on development of library services in Latin American indigenous communities, in order to illustrate how libraries may evolve and be adapted in order to meet particular needs of disadvantaged patrons. | |||||||||||
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