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Brothers of Christian Instruction ‘s Haitian Library

Brothers of Christian Instruction ‘s Haitian Library. Christian Instruction Brothers ’ Haitian Library. History Collection of documetns ( newspapers , fiction, non-fiction, valuable + pics) Budget + Help from other institutions Number of visits Equipment and Services

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Brothers of Christian Instruction ‘s Haitian Library

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  1. Brothers of Christian Instruction ‘sHaitian Library

  2. Christian Instruction Brothers’ Haitian Library History Collection of documetns (newspapers, fiction, non-fiction, valuable + pics) Budget + Help fromother institutions Number of visits Equipment and Services New thingssince 2012 Digitized documents Training (Florida and National Archives) Goals

  3. HISTORY The Christian Instruction Brother’s Haitian library, is the second oldest in the country. It was founded in Port-au-Prince in 1912 for major students of the Brothers of Christian Instruction. From 1920, it opened its doors to the public. By lack of resources - financial, human resources, ... - the BHFIC works in a limited way. We work from Monday to Friday between 9 a.m and 3h pm. We are five people including the Director: an Executive Director, a Secreteray, a Technician in Digitization and an office clerk. Ernest Dion, the founder, by choice and for financial reasons, accentuate this documentation on Haiti and its history of people, their culture and legislation, geography, flora, rich religious history, education and medicine in Haiti. Numerous collections of newspapers from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries can be consulted.

  4. Collection of documents (1) The BHFIC has about 10,000 documents. (this number doesn’t include the newspapers that are more than two hundred titles). The documents are about the pre-Columbian period, the Spanish occupation of Haiti (1492-1697), relations with Santo Domingo, the heroic struggles, the general revolt with heroes like Dessalines, Christophe, Petion, the official reports on the American occupation (1915 - 1934), complete collections writers like CoriolanArdouin, Thomas Madiou, Georges Corvington, Roger Gaillard, Leslie Manigat, ... For Haitian literature, the library has more than 1,200 works of fiction, La Ronde, Haiti Littéraire et Sociale.

  5. Collection of documents(2) It is important to note “Le Temps”, a magazine of years 1932 – 1940 printed in 15 strong volumes, real mines of literary texts, biographies of writers and various analyzes. Our volumes of Haitian legislation, including 63 codes and 200 volumes of the “Moniteur” attract particularly students, professional or private individual looking for a law, decree or notice of divorce.

  6. Newpapers (1) Haïti-Journal :1930 – 1970 (41 years) L’Action Nationale :1936 – 1937 (2 ‘’) L’Elan : 1935 (1 ‘’) L’Essor : 1917 – 1927 (11 ‘’) L’Humour : 1897 (1 ‘’) L’Informateur haïtien : 1919 (1 ‘’) L’Information : 1934 – 1935 (2 ‘’) L’Opinion : 1935 – 1936 (2 ‘’) L’Opinion nationale : 1861 – 1865; 1891 – 1893 (8 ‘’) La Poste : 1922 – 1926 (5 ‘’) La Presse : 1929 – 1931 (3 ‘’)

  7. Newspapers (2) 12) La Vérité : 1886 – 1889 ( 4 years) 13) Le Courrier du Soir : 1919 – 1921 (3 ‘’) 14) Le Courrier haïtien : 1920 – 1922 (3 ‘’) 15) Le Lien : 1928 – 1931 (3 ‘’) 16) Le Matin : 1907 – 1984, 2004 – 2013 (87 ’’) 17) Le Mouvement : 1935 – 1941 (7 ‘’) 18) Le Nouvelliste : 1899 untilnow (exc.1914) ( 115 ‘’) 19) Le Papyrus : 1933 – 1936 (4 ‘’) 20) Le Soir : 1899 – 1908 ( 10 ‘’) 21) Le Télégraphe, gazette officielle: 1821 – 1839 (19 ‘’) 22) Le Temps : 1922 – 1932 (11 ‘’)

  8. Valuables Money: a lot of bank notes and coins (about twothousand) are packed in boxes. Sometimestheydon’t have any documentation. Pictures: alsopictures of former presidents and otherpersonnalities of the haitianhistory. Collection of stamps: more than a thousandstamps are alsopacked in boxes. Other: wealso have thingslikeswords, arms, macaroon of former presidents. Theycanmake a beautiful collection for a museum.

  9. Budget Between painting, boxes of paper, cartridges for printers and copier, water, telephone and internet subscription, antivirus for computers, equipment for cleaning, and unexpected (light bulbs or toilet repair , grilled fan to replace ...), staff salaries, purchase of new books, the Library FIC has a budget of 1,000,000 (one million) gourdes per year. ( about $20.000 us) But, because of the verytrestrictedincomes, the librarycan’tcover the costs.

  10. Help fromother institutions Unibank: Since 1997, Unibank provides us with a monthly grant of 2,500 G. ($55 us). After the earthquake in 2010, the suvention increased to 4,000 gourdes. ($ 90 us). Fokal: In 1998, Fokal provided assistance of 60,000 G ($1.300 us) and after the earthquake of 2010, $ 10,000 to repair the library. In summer 2013, they paid the training in Florida for one of our employees. National Archives: In summer 2013, the National Archives has agreed to pay for training for one of our employees. C3 Editions: Since 2013, “Editions C3 regularly” send us their new published titles. Others: Authors and researchers bring us new titles that expand our holdings.

  11. Total: 960 Number of visits

  12. Number of visits Total: 1.227

  13. Equipment and Services Equipment 3 desktops 1 laptop 1 small scanner (8.5’’ x 11’’) 1 photocopier 1 scanner for newspaper / big format (fromdLOC) Services Consultation on site Photocopy Scan

  14. New thingssince Sept 2012 Mail address : bhfic1912@gmail.com BHFIC logo Facebook page : BHFIC Piece of furniture for the new books New stands for books and newspapers Register of grievances ( to know about researchers feelings) Plasticizedmemberscards Water for employees Flower pots New employee (Jan 2013) Phone number(+509 3770 9642) Office identifiedwith the name of the library Air conditioning in the ExecutiveDirector’s office Security cameras Fireextinguisher New room for digitization

  15. Digitized documents Small documents : 197 GB Books Les Bigailles :1901 Haïti Littéraire et scientifique : 1912 Haïti Littéraire et sociale : 1905 La Ronde :1898 Zobope :1944 Newpapers : 500 GB Haïti Journal: 5 years – from 1940 to 1945.

  16. Employers’ training Florida summer 2011: Training on digitization in partnershipwithdLOC. Florida summer 2013: Training on Advanced topics, large format materials, stillwithdLOC. National Archives (Haïti) november 2013: In partershipwithdLOC, in the National Archives, weparticipate in a training based on digitization of big format.

  17. Goals Digitization Camera + Lamps Computer New employee Salary New room for meeting or conference Chairs (50) Table Projector White board Air conditioning Conference stand Access to the database Ncomputing Separate computers Fairthatlasts one year BHFIC on line

  18. Reading room Pre-columbian stones Equipment for digitization

  19. Stamps Swords Money

  20. Written by Marie-France GUILLAUME ExecutiveDirector +50936025420 duffrance@gmail. 180, Rue du Centre Port-au-Prince / Haïti Tel.: +509 3770 9642 P.B.: 1758Facebook: BHFIC BHFIC’saddress

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