Haiti

IFLA and the Prince Claus Fund sign contract to help preserve Haitian cultural heritage

IFLA — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:52:33 +0200

Christa Meindersma, Director of the Prince Claus Fund for Culture & Development and IFLA Secretary General Jennefer Nicholson

IFLA’s involvement in Haiti reconstruction efforts during 2010

IFLA — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 05:53:39 +0100

A man retrieving documents from the rubble in Haiti

Dear Colleagues

As a result of last year’s devastating earthquake in Haiti, more than 220,000 Haitians were killed and thousands more injured; up to 1.6 million were displaced and settled across 1300 makeshift camps throughout the country. Some 500,000 have fled Port-au-Prince.

Good news from the National Library of Haiti

IFLA — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:48:06 +0100

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Two shipping containers loaded with shelves, mobile cabinets, textbooks and books on general culture have just arrived in Haiti.

Swiss libraries with BSF send 2 containers of equipment to Haitian libraries

IFLA — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:18:35 +0200

A number of Swiss libraries, along with assistance from Libraries without borders (BSF), have sent two shipping containers loaded with books and shelving for Haïtian libraries

Preservation workshops organised in Haiti

IFLA — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:58:27 +0200

A workshop participant busy with small repairs and gap filling

Blue Shield actions for safeguarding heritage in Haiti

IFLA — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:18:40 +0100

Paris, 22 March 2010
PRESS RELEASE

The international Blue Shield network has worked hard in the last weeks on defining an action plan for helping our Haitian colleagues. You will find in this press release all the actions we are developing and proposing to our partners. Some have already been done, others are ongoing. If you want to help us by becoming a partner of these actions, please feel free to join us.

News and Developments Regarding Libraries in Haïti

IFLA — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:48:11 +0100

Bibliothèque haïtienne des Pères du Saint-Esprit (also known as San Martial)
Courtesy of Dominique Franck Simon, director of the Alumni Association for San Martial College

News about Haitian libraries

IFLA — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:50:44 +0100

Dear Colleagues,

We are ALL in solidarity with Haiti / Todos estamos en Accion Solidaria con Haiti

IFLA — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:03:48 +0100

UNIVERSIDAD DE PUERTO RICO, RECINTO DE RIO PIEDRAS
ESCUELA GRADUADA DE CIENCIAS Y TECNOLOGIAS DE LA INFORMACION
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ACURIL
(ASSOCIATION OF CARIBBEAN UNIVERSITY, RESEARCH AND INSTITUTIONAL LIBRARIES)

18 January 2010

Dear All Acurileans:

A message from the Director-General of the National Library of Haïti

IFLA — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:59:26 +0100

Saturday, 16 January 2010

By way of CDNL, IFLA has received the following message from the Director-General of the National Library of Haïti:

The building of the National library is safe, the shelves and holdings have shifted...we will prevail ...our building is the only one standing in the whole area.

I have not yet been able to locate all the personel, but half of them are safe...we keep on checking.

We will keep you posted.