A library. A neighborhood. A hope

Abstract

The author presents the experience of the Popular Library of “Bella Vista Popular” on the city of Cordoba, Argentina, installed in a neighborhood built by industrial workers who bought the land in installments in the 1920s, and built their houses doing the work themselves during the weekends. The library opened in the winter of 1990, driven by a dozen survivors of the dictatorship, who made a beautiful and patient work with the children of the neighborhood, whose parents had never entered a library. Currently the activities are coordinated by seventy grantees workshop conductors and twenty-eight volunteers.