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The right to Literacy and Knowledge in Croatia

Nowadays librarians have the challenge of reaching out to serve all people in their community and make libraries socially inclusive to those who have difficulty in reading and understanding written text. Reading problems are usually caused by insufficient education but also by handicap, intellectual disability, dyslexia or other factors such as unemployment, high crime, or family breakdown. In terms of making indispensable presumption for full membership in European Union and transformation of Croatia into economicaly successful and democratic society, the need for sistematic solving of the problems of national strategy for library services to persons with special needs and disabilities has been perceived. Proposal for development of national strategy for library services to persons with special needs and disabilities in Croatia should become part of National strategy of equalization of possibilities for persons with disabilities from the year 2007 till the year 2015. This National strategy should promote library system and improve the quality of services for users in school and public libraries and young offenders institutions and penal institutions in Croatia. Libraries, as holders of the national development strategy and the cultural traditions preservation, at national, regional and local level, by the reading stimulation projects are getting involved into cultural exchange, european and world politics of cooperation in transformation, computerization and globalization.

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