How does the local/ national/ ethnic culture demonstrate a commitment to libraries?
Literacy is new to the Berber world because they are historically an oral people. However, they are now interacting with the literate world and are finding that this is a necessary life skill. Libraries in the Berber regions of Morocco are rare, but with time they will play an important role in their communities. It is important that they are not forced to found libraries on the ideals of the west and because they are an oral people, their version of a sustainable library may differ from that which we in the west are expectant of.
