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Library visits in Chile

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

In Santiago, we visited the National Library of Chile. This is the main reading room.

Biblioteca Nacional de Chile

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.

El Mercurio visit