flemish parliament act of 6 july 2012 on local cultural policy may 14, 2013 new library legislation...
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Flemish Parliament Act of 6 july 2012 on local cultural policy
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New library legislation in Flanders
Retrospective view
1921
• First Belgian public library legislation• Subsidising and ordening
1978
• Flemish competence• Norms and standards• Professionalisation
2001
• Responsibility of municipalities• Integrated local cultural policy
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Cooperation between Flemish and local authorities
Operational autonomy for local authorities
The abolition of the separate sectoral policy plans, including the cultural policy plan
Integrated multi-annual plan
Flemish policy priorities
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Flemish Parliament Act of 6 July 2012 on Local Cultural Policy
Implementation on 1 January 2014
More responsibilities and freedom to local administrations
Focus on objectives and effects
No more conditions regarding library staff or financial regulations (free use and lending of printed materials; no membership fee for children and youngsters; the presence of high educated library staff)
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Flemish policy priorities on local cultural policy
Municipalities commit themselves• to pursue a qualitative and sustainable local cultural policy• to organize a low-threshold library• to establish a cultural centre.
Flanders holds on to a strategy of an integrated cultural policy,
whereby public libraries gear their activities to the other cultural
actors in the municipality.
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Flemish policy priority public library
municipalities should operate a library which:• stimulates cultural education and reading motivation;• focuses on the promotion of e-inclusion among target groups
that are difficult to reach and on the increase of information
literacy and media literacy; • invests in an adapted service provision for the disabled and
for target groups that are difficult to reach in the cultural,
educational and socio-economic field; • promotes cooperation with education institutions.
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Subsidies public libraries
• No commitment to Flemish policy priorities = no subsidies from
Flemish Government
• less than 10,000 inhabitants: subsidy of 56,000 euro per year
• 10,000+ inhabitants: 6.5 euro per inhabitant per year
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www.sociaalcultureel.be
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