Biblioteca Nacional de São Tomé e Príncipe

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Biblioteca Nacional de São Tomé e Príncipe
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The national library in the capital São Tomé

founding 2002
Library type National Library
place São Tomé , São Tomé and Príncipe Coordinates: 0 ° 20 ′ 10 ″  N , 6 ° 43 ′ 53 ″  E
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management Nazaré de Ceita

The Biblioteca Nacional de São Tomé e Príncipe in São Tomé is the national library of São Tomé and Príncipe .

In São Tomé and Príncipe, the law on legal deposit in the Portuguese colonies , passed in 1952, is still valid today, and has to be delivered to today's National Library of São Tomé and Príncipe. An update and a new version is discussed.

history

Until the country gained independence in 1975, the library of the city administration ( Câmara Municipal de São Tomé ) was the most important library with a collection of 3,500 titles and 5,000 copies. After that, the library gradually fell into disrepair after new departments were set up in the city administration building. In the meantime, the libraries of the Portuguese and French cultural centers in the capital were the only public reading rooms in the country.

In the mid-1980s, the library of the French cultural center was dissolved and its holdings were divided between the two libraries that had been created in the meantime, the scientific documentation center Centro de Documentação Técnica e Científica and the public library Sala de Leitura Francisco Tenreiro . In the mid-1990s, the owners asked for the building that housed the two libraries back. The state then united the two libraries and created the Centro Cultural Francisco José Tenreiro , named after the São Tomé poet Francisco José Tenreiro (1921–1963).

In 1994 the Biblioteca da Assembleia Nacional , the library of the Parliament, the Assembleia Nacional was created . She took over the function of a national library.

Demands for a modern and appropriately equipped national library were loud, so a new building was built, financed by the People's Republic of China . Today's National Library was founded and inaugurated in its new building in May 2002.

In March 2015, the Biblioteca Nacional, in cooperation with the Brazilian University of Minas Gerais, started its mobile library project to encourage reading among children and young people. International children's and youth literature in Portuguese is transported in a van to small towns and made available to the children at local schools. The country has had libraries on wheels since the mid-1980s, which were initially created with the help of French development aid and later the Portuguese Gulbenkian Foundation , even before the national library was founded.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article of October 9, 2013 on the announcement of World Heritage proposals by the state of São Tomé and Príncipe ( memento of March 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) with mention of Nazaré Ceita as director of the national library and national UNESCO commissioner, news portal stpdigital.net, accessed on March 28, 2016
  2. ↑ a b Entry on the Biblioteca Nacional de São Tomé e Príncipe at www.bibliotecadigitallusofona.org, accessed on March 28, 2016
  3. ↑ a b Fernando Cristóvão (ed.): Dicionário Temático da Lusofonia. Texto Editores, Lisbon / Luanda / Praia / Maputo 2006, p. 152 ( ISBN 972-47-2935-4 )
  4. ↑ TV report about the beginning of the rolling children's and youth library , recording on YouTube , accessed on March 28, 2016