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The Puerto Rico National Library (Spanish: Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico) is the national library of Puerto Rico. It was created in 1967 as the Biblioteca General de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico General Library) by Joint Resolution No. 44 of the Puerto Rico Legislature. [2] It opened on April 11, 1973. [3]
Library City or town Image Date granted [1] Grant amount [1] Location Notes 1: San Juan: San Juan: Oct 4, 1901: $100,000 7 Ave Juan Ponce De León: Opened July 27, 1915, this library in the Puerto Rico was the first building to be built there for the specific purpose of a public library.
Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, also known as the Father of Puerto Rican Literature, ushered in a new age of historiography with the publication of The Historical Library of Puerto Rico. Cayetano Coll y Toste was another Puerto Rican historian and writer. His work The Indo-Antillano Vocabulary is valuable in understanding the way the Taínos lived.
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The Biblioteca Carnegie (or Carnegie Library) on Avenida Juan Ponce de León in Puerta de Tierra, San Juan, Puerto Rico [2] is a NRHP-listed Carnegie library funded through a $100,000 donation from the Carnegie Foundation, [3] becoming Puerto Rico's first purpose-built library [4] when it was completed in 1915.
This is a list of libraries in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Both, public and private libraries are listed. Both, public and private libraries are listed. Also listed, for their environment conductive to study and research, are non-circulating, archive organizations.
The Ponce Municipal Library, formally, Biblioteca Municipal Mariana Suárez de Longo (English: Mariana Suárez de Longo Municipal Library), and also known as Biblioteca Publica de Ponce (English: Ponce Public Library), is the library system of the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Founded in 1870, it is the oldest public library in Puerto ...
In 1898 the structure was taken over by the US Army, upon its invasion of Puerto Rico in July of that year. Eventually the property was acquired by the government of Puerto Rico, and a new building was erected at this corner lot to serve as the site of the Puerto Rico Criminal Courthouse for the District of Ponce. [ 2 ]