[1] It is a system that seeks to provide citizens with the opportunities to engage with books, reading, writing, orality, culture, research, science, technology, and innovation.
[2][3][4][5] Since 1998, BibloRed has managed information and knowledge, promoted inclusion in written culture, and encouraged the development of oral skills among the city's inhabitants.
[3] The Network is a program of the Secretariat of Culture, Recreation, and Sports of Bogotá that operates under the concession model, where a private entity manages and executes public budgets.
The newspaper El Colombiano, from Medellín, awarded BibloRed as 'Colombian Exemplar,' for being an institution dedicated to building a better country through reading and culture.
In 2011, the Congress of the Republic of Colombia granted a special recognition to BibloRed for its 10 years of service to the citizenry, for being the most important network for information and knowledge management, which has promoted the social appropriation of reading, research, culture, and ICTs, contributing to the improvement of the quality of life of different populations, especially those in vulnerable conditions.
Its search engine allows access to the digital and physical resources of the District Public Library Network of Bogotá, BibloRed, including: Platforms of books and magazines, where you can consult: Databases that provide the possibility to access: Platform with special collections consisting of: The Digital Library of Bogotá was designed through a participatory process with public discussions among district institutions, academic communities, and city residents.
From there, a scalable system based on entrepreneurial and innovative practices was designed, which will gradually grow through partnerships and projects with specific topics of citizen interest.
[6] It is a program that integrates a set of actions and strategies that promote access to written culture and other media, through encounterz with a wide diversity of texts, promoting reading and writing as social and cultural practices that enable access, use, and transformation of information and knowledge, aesthetic appreciation, and the exercise of the symbolic function of language, as well as the exercise of citizenship and social participation.