“Any Antiguan and Barbudan forty years or younger would not have known or had the benefit of a properly, well run, well resourced national public library.
“Whenever we lament the weakness in literacy over the last four decades we should look back at how culpable we are as a nation in not providing the appreciation for books, for intellectual stimulation, which is a symbol in a national public library,” said Education Minister Dr Jacqui Quinn-Leandro. The 20,000-square-foot project on Hails Prominard Road succeeds a temporary library which had been operating on Market Street. The completion of the project comes four decades after the country’s public library was damaged by an earthquake. Above: the new National Library in AntiguaĪntigua and Barbuda has completed construction on the country’s new national public library.
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