The oldest library of Haiti

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1 The oldest library of Haiti

2 In 1873, Père Daniel Weick funded the library And later the Observatoire At the same time, the first free branch of the fire brigade of Port-au- Prince

3 Gabriel Débien s opinions The «Bibliothèque Haïtienne des Pères du Saint-Esprit», the Eighteenth Century and colonial Saint-Domingue library, hosts one of the most famous collection about slave history. The BHFIC (des Frères de l Instruction Chrétienne), is the haitian s nineteenth th century Library.

4 The oldest book: sixteenth century EDEN. Richard.The Decades of the newe worlde or west India, Imprynted by Rycharde jug; In ædibus Guilhelmi Powell: Londoni, o British Library have a copy

5 Ouvrage du 16ème siècle The sixteenth century book Voyages et conquêtes de Ferdinand Courtois aux Indes Occidentales/ traduit par Guillaume Le Breton. Paris, 1588.

6 Foundation of BHPSE The evangelization and the education project of the Holy Ghost, and the alumni rooting at the alma mater are the main enrichment and anchorage points of the library Catholic Church h services Haitian nation services

7 BHPSE Specificities In the begining the library project was to offer documentation around 3 main subjects: Haïti, (history, literature, culture); American history (Caribbean...); The slave history of the world. New section: due to the exile of the Haitian Holy Ghost ( ) The Haitian s refugee history and economy from the 1960s to today.

8 The slaves regulations Le code noir La police des noirs

9 Science at Saint-Domingue The printing i arrived at Saint- Domingue to reinforce the repression and administrative tools against the fugitive slaves. Arthaud and Le Cercle des Philadelphes (the Saint Domingue Academy of science affillated with the Benjamin Franklin society) used it in a most constructive way, printing scientific books, very useful at that time.

10 The first imprint at Saint Domingue, 1764 (65) Almanach de Saint- Domingue pour l'année 1765, contenant les noms des personnes en place dans la colonie. Cap-François : Chez Marie, Imprimeur breveté du Roi pour toute l Ifle St- Domingue à l exclusion l de tous autres, 1764? (BHPSE)

11 The collections: Linstant de Pradines; Semexan Rouzier; Michel Oreste; Edmond Mangonès (4,000 books and around 20 archives boxes); Recently the Dupuy s Family, around monographs and handwritten; Milo & Odette Rigaud records collection.

12 Lois Constitutions de Moreau de Saint-Méry (83 titles) The only copy of volume 7

13 Toussaint Louverture, General Governor

14 Estimation... 20,000 books; 1,000 titles of scientific journals; 500 maps and other materials Many rare books, some are one of a kind, from the sixteenth, th seventeenth, th and eighteenth centuries, as well as nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

15 Modernisation of BHPSE Holy Ghost s exile: (books on box) Homecoming: 1986 Digitalization solution to the crisis

16 Preservation and diffusion CULTURE : Fonds vaudou Odette M. Rigaud HISTORY : Fonds esclavage et son abolition Fonds imprimés à Saint-Domingue DEVELOPMENT : Descourtilz Fonds Lois et actes d Haïti ( )

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18 Numérisation des fonds en danger

19 Fonds colonial

20 Partenariat 3 bibliothèques patrimoniales Bib=CA &vid=00011 B N H B H P S E B H F I C

21 Researching plants

22 Fonds Esclavage

23 Low cost 500 $ 8 secondes page 2000 $ 500p hour

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25 Diffusion Preservation

26 Lois et Actes

27 Full text OCR & Data Base by subject pages entries 103 textes Sujet recherchable COMMERCE

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31 Thanks Patrick D. Tardieu, M.Sc. Conservateur