SUBSCRIBE
SUBSCRIBE
EXPLORE +
  • About infoDOCKET
  • Academic Libraries on LJ
  • Research on LJ
  • News on LJ
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Libraries
    • Academic Libraries
    • Government Libraries
    • National Libraries
    • Public Libraries
  • Companies (Publishers/Vendors)
    • EBSCO
    • Elsevier
    • Ex Libris
    • Frontiers
    • Gale
    • PLOS
    • Scholastic
  • New Resources
    • Dashboards
    • Data Files
    • Digital Collections
    • Digital Preservation
    • Interactive Tools
    • Maps
    • Other
    • Podcasts
    • Productivity
  • New Research
    • Conference Presentations
    • Journal Articles
    • Lecture
    • New Issue
    • Reports
  • Topics
    • Archives & Special Collections
    • Associations & Organizations
    • Awards
    • Funding
    • Interviews
    • Jobs
    • Management & Leadership
    • News
    • Patrons & Users
    • Preservation
    • Profiles
    • Publishing
    • Roundup
    • Scholarly Communications
      • Open Access

December 18, 2018 by Gary Price

Princeton University’s New Brazil LAB Leads Relief Efforts for Brazil’s National Museum and a Important Anthropology Library Lost to Fire

December 18, 2018 by Gary Price

From Princeton University:

On the morning of Sept. 2, 2018, the world community woke to the news that Brazil’s National Museum in Rio de Janeiro had caught fire, destroying one of Latin America’s oldest and most important scientific and cultural institutions.
[Clip]
The Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology (PPGAS), based at the National Museum and affiliated with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, was particularly hard hit. In the year of its 50th anniversary, the program lost its entire infrastructure — administrative and faculty offices, classrooms, meeting spaces, ethnological collections, and an audiovisual lab with film and editing equipment.
Also destroyed was the Francisca Keller Library, the principal anthropology library in Brazil and among the best in Latin America containing more than 40,000 volumes, as well as research materials collected from over 50 years of fieldwork in Latin America. The loss of the Documentation Center for Indigenous Languages ​​(CELIN), which specialized in collecting text, images and sound of Indigenous languages ​​and varieties of Brazilian Portuguese, was especially devastating since most of the materials never were digitized and are irreplaceable.
[Clip]
After talking to the Brazil LAB’s co-director Pedro Meira Monteiro, the Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and chair of the department, Biehl reached out to Federico Neiburg, an anthropologist at PPGAS, with whom he has collaborated many times. Their conversations led to an offer of help not only from the Brazil LAB, which was officially launched this semester, but also from the Princeton University Library and Princeton University Press to replace books and research materials.
“This new collaboration is based on previous exchanges headed by João and myself involving workshops in Rio de Janeiro and Princeton and ongoing collaborative research projects,” Neiburg said. “In this sense, Princeton’s solidarity was not surprising. What was surprising, indeed, is the size of the concrete actions being taken and their impact on reconstructing PPGAS.”
The largest immediate impact will come from a donation of 4,000 books spearheaded by Christie Henry, director of Princeton University Press, to restock the Francisca Keller Library.
Henry offered to replace any Princeton University Press edition housed in PPGAS’ library, and she also invited Neiburg and his colleagues to request additional books from the Press’ catalog. She then reached out to her peers at university presses across the United States, who agreed to do the same: “The response has been staggering in all wonderful ways.”
“I thought this would be something I would send to the listserv, and if a handful of people would have responded, I would have been thrilled,” Henry said. “I was completely unprepared — and my email was completely unprepared — for the rapidity of response.”
To date, more than 75 university presses have joined the effort. Princeton University Press’ donation totals about 300 books so far, including physical and digital editions. While some publishers are sending books directly to PPGAS, others are being consolidated and shipped by Ingram Content Group. The company’s chairman, John Ingram, is a Princeton alumnus.

Learn More About Brazil Lab in the Complete Article

Filed under: Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News

SHARE:

About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

ADVERTISEMENT

Archives

Job Zone

ADVERTISEMENT

Recent Articles on LJ

From the Top: Library Leaders Talk EDI | Equity

There Are No Lanes: Rural Libraries Do It ALL | Backtalk

Prince George’s County Memorial Library System Targeted by Anti-LGBTQIA+ Vandalism

DEI Audits: The Whole Picture | Equity

On Critical Cataloging: Q&A with Treshani Perera | Equity

ADVERTISEMENT

Related Infodocket Posts

DPLA Receives $150,000 Grant From the Knight Foundation to Expand the Palace Marketplace and Palace Bookshelf

From a DPLA Announcement: DPLA’s ebook work is a key part of our mission to advance digital access to knowledge for all. Earlier this month, The Palace Project app and platform ...

Brown Library, Together with Emory University, Releases Report on Digital Scholarly Publishing: "Multimodal Digital Monographs: Content, Collaboration, Community"

From Brown University Library: In spring 2021, Brown University Library and Emory University’s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry co-hosted a summit on multimodal digital monographs – born-digital publications that offer ...

Association of American Publishers (AAP) Granted Declaratory Judgement in Maryland E-Book Lawsuit

UPDATE 2: Judge in Maryland Strikes Down Library E-Book Law (via APNews) Maryland U.S. District Judge Deborah L. Boardman issued her decision Monday, four months after she had enjoined the ...

Report: "Comics Librarians Are Up for the Fight"

From Publishers Weekly: Sales of graphic novels—especially manga—have boomed during the pandemic, as have their readership in libraries. Despite lockdowns and supply chain issues, comics remains one of the most ...

Report: "Internet Archive Says 'Emergency' Digital Library Protected By Fair Use"

UPDATE June 14: Publishers & Internet Archive Both Seek Piracy Lawsuit Win Without Full Trial (via TorrentFreak) UPDATE June 13: Internet Archive, Publishers to Seek Summary Judgment in Book Scanning ...

Ithaka S+R Releases Results From "Streaming Media Licensing and Purchasing Practices at Academic Libraries" Survey

From an Introductory Blog Post by Danielle Cooper, Dylan Ruediger, and Makala Skinner: Today Ithaka S+R releases the findings from the most comprehensive survey to date of academic library streaming ...

Digital Books: ReadersFirst Introduces "Publisher Price Watch"

From a ReadersFirst Blog Post by Michael Blackwell: Librarians need to know how publishers compare with each other, although of course we will often be forced to license from some ...

The Palace Project Officially Launches New Library-Centered Platform, App For Digital Content and Services

From LYRASIS: The Palace Project, the nonprofit library-centered platform and ereader app for digital content and services, announced its official launch today. Informed by librarians and supported by a multi-year, ...

A Statement From NCAC, ALA, Virginia Library Assoc and Other Organizations: "Virginia Legal Action Threatens the Freedom to...

UPDATE: ALA has also released a statement. Full Text of Statement From the National Coalition Against Censorship, ALA, Virginia Library Association and Others: In May 18, 2022, in a legal ...

New From The Internet Archive: A Digital Collection of Backlist Titles From the Music Library Association

From an Internet Archive Blog Post by Caralee Adams: For librarians who specialize in caring for music collections, it can be challenging to keep up with the latest technology and ...

Plan S Journal Comparison Service is Now Open for Publishers to Register and Deposit Price and Service Data

From a cOAlition S Announcement: cOAlition S is excited to release today the Journal Comparison Service (JCS), a secure, free and long-anticipated digital service, that aims to shed light on ...

Roundup (May 24, 2022)

Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Comments on US Federal Priorities for Information Integrity Research & Development Athletes: A Collection of Free to Use and Reuse Images From the Library of ...

ADVERTISEMENT

FOLLOW INFODOCKET ON TWITTER

Tweets by @infodocket

ADVERTISEMENT

This coverage is free for all visitors. Your support makes this possible.

This coverage is free for all visitors. Your support makes this possible.

Primary Sidebar

  • News
  • Reviews+
  • Technology
  • Programs+
  • Design
  • Leadership
  • People
  • COVID-19
  • Advocacy
  • Opinion
  • INFOdocket
  • Job Zone

Reviews+

  • Booklists
  • Prepub Alert
  • Book Pulse
  • Media
  • Readers' Advisory
  • Self-Published Books
  • Review Submissions
  • Review for LJ

Awards

  • Library of the Year
  • Librarian of the Year
  • Movers & Shakers 2022
  • Paralibrarian of the Year
  • Best Small Library
  • Marketer of the Year
  • All Awards Guidelines
  • Community Impact Prize

Resources

  • LJ Index/Star Libraries
  • Research
  • White Papers / Case Studies

Events & PD

  • Online Courses
  • In-Person Events
  • Virtual Events
  • Webcasts
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
  • Media Inquiries
  • Newsletter Sign Up
  • Submit Features/News
  • Data Privacy
  • Terms of Use
  • Terms of Sale
  • FAQs
  • Careers at MSI


© 2022 Library Journal. All rights reserved.


© 2022 Library Journal. All rights reserved.