Acceso a la información pública, archivos y bibliotecas en la Constitución Política del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia

Study about the nature, content, and scope of the Political Constitution of the Bolivian Plurinational State related to the work in libraries, archives and museums. It analyses the importance of the new Constitution that recognizes the rights of the indigenous peoples, aboriginals, peasants. It replaces in its text the ancient conception of the Cultural Patrimony, centered in a culturalist vision. Different from the other, currently the Cultural Patrimony takes part of the State Patrimony, along with the Economic, and Natural Patrimony. It establishes the obligations and responsibilities of public servants, in the description and preservation of the public documents, prohibiting its destruction; it includes the adds the right to access to public information, and at the same time, it established the reserve to information. It determines the exclusive competencies at state, departmental, and municipal levels, for the creation, development, and maintanance of archives, libraries, and documental centres at all levels of government. It includes the access in its scope the access to new technologies as human rights and it proposes the paradigm to promote scientific research, recording of the knowledge of aboriginal peoples, aboriginals, and peasants, as an integral part to the cultural treasure of all peoples