Plans to Upgrade the National Library of Jamaica Announced

From the Jamaican Government:

• Plans to upgrade the National Library of Jamaica (NLJ) to facilitate the growing catalogues and collections created by local artistes and historians are to be undertaken by the Government.
• Short-term plans will include the offsite storage of newspapers from Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, and Guyana, which the library had acquired during its time as the West India Reference Library.
• Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Minister, Hon. Olivia Grange used the opportunity to urge local creators of content, in whatever field, to deposit their material at the NLJ.

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Meanwhile, the Minister informed that in the long term, a modern and larger facility will be required to effectively carry out the Library’s mandate of preserving documents published in Jamaica by Jamaicans and about Jamaica.

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