Clubes de lectura¿en “la nube” o en “la tierra”?

Abstract

With the advent of digital and social networks, public libraries around the world promote virtual reading clubs that allow jointly discuss reading the same book simultaneously to many people. One of the most illustrative examples and with major repercussion it is the project Big Library Read, a club of digital global reading that connects million persons of the whole world reading the same book, providing an increase of the visibility and commitment of the reader with the digital book. The technology expands the ability to communicate and promotes the creation of new virtual scenarios and reading trends that suggest new ways of discovering and creating in community. In this context, the concept of book club has changed radically and away from emerging as a form of socialization for its participants in origin, now the germ and the boom of clubs virtual reading must be sought in the interest aroused for a particular book that brings together disparate people, geographically and culturally separated. From a survey study conducted among users who form the different clubs of reading of the Municipal Library "Ricardo León" of Galapagar, population of 34.000 inhabitants located in the north of Madrid, it is tried to analyze if the participants in this type of activities of reading revitalization are really attracted by the possibilities offered by the digital world for the exercise of reading and if these users enjoy the information skills necessary to make the act of reading a shared experience in the network.