Bibliotecas en la vida intelectual, científica y cultural de Puerto Rico a finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX
| Main Authors: | Suárez-Balseiro, Carlos, Díaz López, Aura, Ledesma Amador, María, Vera Collazo, Iris |
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| Format: | Proceeding PeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | es |
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, 2015
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/33522/1/texto_ponencia_ICOM2015_puertorico.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/33522/ |
Daftar Isi:
- The nineteenth century and the first years of the twentieth constituted a convulsive period in the history of Puerto Rico. It was a time characterized by the awakening of the conscience of Puerto Ricans, the establishment of political parties and workers' societies and the struggle for women's rights. This paper explores the role that the Library of the Puerto Rican Athenaeum and the Insular Library, the two most emblematic institutions of its time, had in that context. The documentary analysis and the interview are used as techniques for data collection. The interviews have been made to researchers who are knowledgeable about the history of Puerto Rico and, in particular, about the socio-economic and political conditions in the period studied. The Library of the Puerto Rican Athenaeum and the Insular Library are two pillars in the development of library practice in Puerto Rico, both in terms of the organization of library resources and in the offering of services. In addition, both served as custodian and reinforcement of the Puerto Rican identity, were spaces for politics and discussion of the most advanced ideas of the moment, contributing to the formation of the Puerto Rican intellectual class differentiated from the Spanish, as well as an option to education formal and a vehicle for the betterment of society.