This week, Library Without Borders (BSF) has signed with the Rector of the University of Haiti, a protocol for the construction of a central reserve of Haitian university libraries, where will be stored and retained 300,000 books.

According to Patrick Veil, the Director of BSF, the French NGO, is currently in the process of identification of partners for the project whose total cost is estimated at 5 million euros, indicating that the collection of the books has already begun. The BSF Director recalled that currently the public library of the University of Haiti, has about 10.000 books scattered in the various faculties of the capital and that the project objective is to increase this number to 300,000 in a horizon of two to three years. He indicated that this approach, is the new model that develops currently in France [with the Technical Centre of the book] and to the United States, in universities such as Yale.

The central reserve will be built next to the campus of the State University, to the north of Port-au-Prince.

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