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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] In 2003 it was renamed Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico by Act 188 of August 17 of that year. [4] The library is ascribed to the Institute of Puerto Rican ...
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 ...
This building was built in 1897 in the Neoclassical style, and served as the Ponce Criminal Court, District Court for the Puerto Rico Court System, Centro Español de Ponce headquarters, and as the Ponce campus of the Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico as well as for Caribbean University. [6] [a]
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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.
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.
The maximum length of the main island from east to west is 110 mi (180 km), and the maximum width from north to south is 40 mi (64 km). [82] Puerto Rico is the smallest of the Greater Antilles. It is 80% of the size of Jamaica, [83] just over 18% of the size of Hispaniola and 8% of the size of Cuba, the largest of the Greater Antilles. [84]
Digitized issues available at Newspaper Digital Library: Digital Library of the Caribbean (Gazeta ('sic') de Puerto Rico). [28] and on the Library of Congress website. [29] Digitized issues also available at Colección Puertorriqueña. [30] Official organ of the Government of Puerto Rico. [31] Diario Económico de Puerto Rico: San Juan 1814 [27]