Public policies

Some of the Centre's researchers have participated in the drafting of legislation and in the design, implementation and/or evaluation of public policies related to books and reading. These legislations and policies include: the Investiga Cultura Programme of the National Ministry of Education, the Plan for the Improvement of University Publishing of the National Ministry of Education of Argentina (2014-2017), the bill to create the National Book Institute, the bill to support independent publishers of the City of Buenos Aires, and the South Programme to support translations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina.

In line with these actions, and with the aim of expanding this work, the Centre proposes to:

• Update public policies on books in accordance with the demands generated by the transformations of the cultural economy in recent decades and the problems and structural imbalances that the sector is facing.
• To integrate the book industry as a strategic element in national development policies, taking into account its dual nature: economic and cultural.
• Strengthen existing national and provincial reading policies and promote the development of new actions that contribute to guaranteeing democratic and federal access to reading.