I was never there, but our dear friend @Bartleby is carioca (from Rio de Janeiro) and he, probably, was there.Coincidentally, today I've been reading poems by Cecília Meireles, who happened to set up Brazil's first ever children's library, in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, in 1934. Do any of our Brazilian friends know if it's still there? Have you ever visited?
Welcome back,Benny. Hope you had a very electric carnival!
Yes, I had a wonderful Carnival locked in my room with a lot of books of Economics, Constitutional Law and Public Policy. ?Welcome back,Benny. Hope you had a very electric carnival!
I was looking this up on the internet, and it appears that this library only worked from 1934 to 1937. Here's an old photo:Coincidentally, today I've been reading poems by Cecília Meireles, who happened to set up Brazil's first ever children's library, in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, in 1934. Do any of our Brazilian friends know if it's still there? Have you ever visited?
There are Carnegie libraries across the whole English-speaking world. There's even a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, named 'Carnegie' in his honour that borders the neighbourhood where I grew up – although even with the name change they missed out on library funding.2,509 Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929
Indeed you're quite right. I read too fast. The 2,509 encompasses libraries around the world. In the US, there are 1,689 and, according to the same sentence I quoted above but didn't read all the way through, there are 25 in Australia and other places such as Serbia, Belgium, South Africa, Malaysia and more! Wow! In fact, if anyone is interested, the story behind the libraries is fascinating.There are Carnegie libraries across the whole English-speaking world. There's even a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, named 'Carnegie' in his honour that borders the neighbourhood where I grew up – although even with the name change they missed out on library funding.
And the blocos passing under the window. At least it was a useful way of spending carnival.Yes, I had a wonderful Carnival locked in my room with a lot of books of Economics, Constitutional Law and Public Policy. ?
Funny how your memory works. I have such wonderful memories of the library I spent countless hours in when I was a kid: downstairs was entirely for children and upstairs for adults. In the late 19th century, Andrew Carnegie (a Scottish immigrant to the US who made a fortune in the steel industry) personally paid for the building of libraries across the entire country. According to Wikipedia, "2,509 Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929." Indeed, he donate nearly $60 million dollars for the libraries alone as well as additional monies for all kinds of charitable purposes...an extraordinarily public-minded and generous man. Mine was one of those libraries. Looking back, wonderful memories notwithstanding, I can see now that the outside was, at best, not particularly, um, inviting.
I'm amazed at these educate whispering children, who in spite of it seem to disturb the adults.Public reading in my city (within an institution) begins in the Popular Library organized in the University Library building. The Popular library, intended for the general public, was inaugurated on May 14, 1921. It had a hall with 70 seats and a warehouse, which held 1500 volumes in Romanian and 500 in Hungarian, approximately the number of books that @Stevie B has ?. In 1935, as a result of the increase in the book collection and the number of readers, the popular library will expand, operating in two reading rooms, with a total of 220 seats . One of the rooms was intended for children. "To keep the peace in the large reading room, the children were moved to room No. II, because in addition to all the orders and measures taken, the 6-8-10-year-old children with their movements and whispers disturbed the adult readers. Popular Library it is open not only on working days, but also on Sundays and holidays between 2-8 p.m., thus giving the working class the opportunity to take advantage of the library on days off as well. In winter, the younger children are sent home after 6 o'clock." (Barbul, Eugen (1935). Biblioteca Universității Regele Ferdinand I din Cluj).
In the 1950s the library has been moved to several locations due to the increase in the number of books, and in the 1960s they began to open branches in the neighborhoods. In the 1990s, being threatened with eviction from the building in which it was based, the County Council introduces a new building for the library in the investment plan, on a 5040 m² plot of land provided by the Municipal Council, outside the Historical Center, in the neighborhood where I grew up. In 2002 the new headquarters was inaugurated, View attachment 2418almost every day I find a post with events, clubs that take place within the library. Yesterday, as part of the "I want to be a character in a story" project, children dramatized "The Human Stupidity" by Ion Creangă. I was fascinated by this story when my mom read it to me.