Marķa Antonia Carrato Mena
Chair of NAPLE
Head of the Subdirectorate General for Library Coordination of the Ministry of Culture
Marķa Antonia Carrato Mena is Head of the Subdirectorate General for Library Coordination of the Ministry of Culture since the beginning of 2005. Previously she worked at the Madrid Community managing its library system and she also worked in the Music Department at the Spanish National Library. At the present time, she is responsible for development and coordination of the Spanish library sector and the promotion of international relations concerning libraries. In regard to library cooperation, the Subdirectorate is the secretariat of the recent created Council of Library Cooperation, wich is the body responsible for the administration of library cooperation among all the public administrations and all the different type of libraries national and regional, public, school, academic and special libraries.