Bibliotecas y educación básica: Los inicios de una relación imprescindible/Library and Primary Learning: The Beginnings of essential Connection

Libraries and education have always gone hand in hand. The spread of free basic universal education in Spain, which the "Ley de Instrucción Pública" (Public Instruction Law) of 1857, also know as The Moyano Law, permitted masked the beginning of attempts to instutionalise the relaionship between libraries and education, through the use of projects which utilised the library as a pedagogic instrument in the teaching of non-university level Spanish students. These pages will focus of on the period from the enactmen of the 1857 law until the Spanish Civil War. It will analyse the different laws, pedagogical studies and ideas developed by those libraries and educators who linked libraries with basic education and in doing so were the predecessor of school libriaries. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]