Summary
The public library in Vermillion, S.D., celebrated its 100th anniversary last year. It also exemplified the freedom to read in this country by being the only American public library to show concern for those independent Cuban librarians whom Fidel Castro sent to prison for 20 and more years in 2003 for daring to allow Cubans the freedom to read.
On Nov. 18, the Vermillion Public Library Board of Trustees voted to sponsor the Dulce Maria Loynaz Library in Havana, which, like other imperiled independent libraries in Cuba, offers public access to books not obtainable in Cuba's censored "public" library system.See the full content of this document
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[ Sweet Land of Liberty ]
As a sponsor, the South Dakota library will be sending books to its sister library in Cuba, paid for solely by private contributions. The first two in Spanish-language editions, sent to library director Gisela Delgado, ar...
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