[Libs-Or] [Fwd: [alacoun] An update on ALA's Haiti library relief/reconsruction efforts]

[Suzanne Sager]

FYI,

Suzanne L. Sager

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Subject: 	[alacoun] An update on ALA's Haiti library 
relief/reconsruction efforts
Date: 	Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:27:37 -0400
From: 	Keith Michael Fiels <kfiels at ala.org>
To: 	ALACOUN <alacoun at ala.org>



*Thanks to many recent donations ALA has raised and distributed $40,000!***

These funds have helped to build a temporary building for the 
Bibliotheque Haïtienne des Pères du Saint-Esprit, which was founded in 
1873 and holds resources documenting the history of Haiti, French 
colonization, slavery and emancipation. The new facility is only 1/4 the 
size of the old library, but it will allow the library to begin 
re-establishing its collection and providing access to materials.     A 
photo of the new library can be seen at www.ala.org/haiti 
<http://www.ala.org/haiti>

ALA continues to raise funds for two other libraries: the Petit Goave 
Public Library, the Centre Culturel Pyepoudre Community Library

Francoise Thybulle, Director of the Bibliotheque Nationale d' *Haiti, 
and Elizabeth Pierre Louis of the *Fondation Connaissance et Liberté 
(FOKAL) have been invited to ALA Annual in New Orleans to provide an 
update on Saturday, June 25 from 4:00-5:30.

 

Keith Michael Fiels

Executive Director

American Library Association

50 East Huron Street

Chicago, Illinois 60611

(312) 280-1392

_kfiels at ala.org_

 


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