Dear colleagues,
As you may already know, the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro (Museu
Nacional) has been destroyed in a tragic fire this last 2nd of September.
The Francisca Keller Library, one of the most important anthropology
libraries of Latin America, has also been affected and all its collection
has been completely lost in the fire.
A website has been created to help to rebuild the library through book
donations.
Please circulate widely,
*https://franciscakeller.weebly.com/english.html
<https://franciscakeller.weebly.com/english.html>*
*Reconstructing the Francisca Keller Library*
The Francisca Keller library is part of the Graduate Program in Social
Anthropology of the National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
(PPGAS/MN/UFRJ). Before the recent fire, it was considered to be one of the
most important social science libraries in Brazil and Latin America,
holding a priceless collection of some 37,000 volumes, collected over the
last 50 years of the library’s existence.
The Francisca Keller Library today lies in ashes, but it is not dead. A
library only dies when there are no more readers and we have readers.
Now we need books.
PPGAS, together with UFRJ’s Library System, is beginning a book donation
campaign. We ask all of you to aid us in this new beginning.
In order to organize this process, we have created this webpage where you
will find important information about how to donate. Please do not send
anything without first consulting us, so that we can work within our
current technical means.
We thank you for your solidarity from the bottom of our hearts!
Committee for the Reconstruction and Renewal of the FKL.
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