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Mobile library for marketing the iraqi book
Where
Iraq
Iraq
When
2018
2018
Who
Ministry of culture , tourism and antiquties - cultural relations directorate
Ministry of culture , tourism and antiquties - cultural relations directorate
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Description of the policy/measure
The ministry of culture, tourism and antiquities has developed an advanced method and a developed approach to deliver the library service to the remote areas and far of the cities centers. the ministry manages to find alternatives to public libraries in order to disseminate the cultural awareness of reading among the communities of these regions. that has been done by establishing of a mobile library, a car designed like library containing a number of cultural products and cultural, literary, political, economic and religious, children and youth literature works. it roams for marketing the cultural products at low prices through the regions,  in order to encourage reading and raising the cultural level among the people of these areas.
2005 Convention Monitoring Framework Goal(s)
Area(s) of Monitoring
Cultural Domain(s)
Results achieved
1. increasing the percentage of reading among community individuals with roughly 20%.2. stimulating and encouraging the production of cultural and literary works in all their forms in order to compensate the shortage of libraries number.3. increasing  the percentage of marketing the cultural product of authors and writers and selling cultural product
Financial resources allocated to the policy
The directorate cultural relations supplied a car, model (starex) to be a mobile library and allocating five thousand dollars ($5000) to its design process and supplying it with shelves and advertising posters. now it begins to fund itself by marketing the cultural products.Â