The Municipal Library of Asunción “Augusto Roa Bastos”. Photo: instagram.com/manzanadelarivera
The Augusto Roa Bastos Municipal Library celebrates its 79th anniversary and celebrates it with a commemorative conversation with former directors and former officials, this Friday, April 14 at 7:00 p.m., in the Ruy Díaz de Guzmán Auditorium of the Carlos Colombino City Cultural Center, Manzana de la Rivera (Ayolas No. 129 almost Benjamín Constant). Access is free and thank you.
Its reading room with shelves full of books on the most diverse themes, are within the reach of children, young people, the elderly and students in general, who come daily. Therefore, public libraries become the most effective tool to eradicate and overcome the darkness of ignorance and illiteracy.
Built in the heart of the capital city, the Municipal Library has occupied its place since 1993, in the space called Vertua Housewhich integrates one of the nine historic houses of the Cultural Center of the City Carlos Colombino Manzana de la Rivera.
Since that year, it has operated with a refurbished premises, suitable for reading and consulting the most varied texts on different topics that make the dissemination of knowledge, with a large area, with all the comforts offered to the reader user.
It was created on April 14, 1944, with the mayor of the city Alfonso E. Dos Santos, who declared the Municipal Library inaugurated in the first popular reading room, which initially had a collection of 1,398 volumes.
The enclosure currently has a bibliographical heritage of approximately 40,000 books. It has a cultural extension program, such as the “Fun Fridays”a program that has the participation of students from educational institutions in the capital, in which interest in the works and their reading is encouraged, through educational and recreational games, led by reading promoters.
They also promote the Literature Workshop directed by the writer Jacobo Rauskinwhere texts of Spanish-American and universal Literature are analyzed and focused.
It should be noted that this library is the only one in the country that opens its doors every day, open from Monday to Friday, continuously from 07:00 to 19:00, and on weekends, from 08:00 to 18 :00 h, with free and open access.
