Library visits in Chile
In Santiago, we visited the National Library of Chile. This is the main reading room.
Thanks to a contact Laura has, we were able to visit the Centro de Documentation at El Mercurio, the preeminent newspaper in Chile. I talked shop with the news librarians there — you know, indexing, databases, research, clip files. It was interesting to learn how similar their jobs are to mine.
That’s my gracious host, Veronica Vega, on the right.
Tags: Chile, libraries, Travel
March 8th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
OK, that top picture is just a flat-out fabulous piece of photography. (It does helps that it’s of a lovely woman in a lovely room.) Nice shootin’, Tex!
March 9th, 2006 at 3:56 pm
Looks like the LOC! Any more photos of their collection?
Best,
jenel
March 9th, 2006 at 6:34 pm
Thanks for the flattery, Dorothy! Jenel, I agree, it does bear a resemblance to LoC. We didn’t get any photos of the collection. I peeked into the reference room and tried out the OPAC. Didn’t see the stacks.