Evening star., 1944-07-16

tor Of the Municipal Library Of Havana.
Cuba, first to be chosen, Is here for
three months as consultant In Cuban
photography. Director of the "Amerio
Bibliografico Cubano" since 1897, Dr..
6arausa is known for historical and 1T
erary as well as bibnographical publ
cations.
DR.. Christovam Leite de Castro, editor
Of the Brazilian Geographical and Sta
tistical Review and secretary Of the Bra
lillian Institute Of Geography and Sta
tistics, is the second consultant chosen.
He is serving In the fields named above
The foundation, Dr.. Hanke said. next
expects to invite . specialist In the doc
umentation Of the Mexican Revolution
and one from Portugal to advise on
strengthening the weak spots in the lit
eratures and history Of that country. :
A clair Of Hispanic studies, repre-
senting the highest honor . scholar,
poet, architect. composer, librarian,
novelist or artist in the field could
obtain, Is planned, DR.. Hanke said. The
only limitation would be that the selec-
ton must be Of Latin American,
Spanish or Portuguese personality. The
appointment would be for one year.
Broad Program.
A program now functionins revolves
around sending Library Of Congress per-
sonnet to Latin American institutions
appealing for help to train library STATS.
In l94l Miss Margaret J. Bates was sent
to teach library science to the Brazil
Civil Service Library. The following
year Miss lone Kidder assisted the
National Library Of Venezuela In organ
izing its services. Last year i've persons.
three Of them sta11 members, were sent
to the Lima Library School in Peru to
teach library science.
These continuing programs may be
supplemented by emergency ones. Such
as the present effort to help the National
Library Of Peru, at Lima, recover from
the fire in May, 1s43, which destroyed
its building and its resources. A month
after the fire Secretary of State Hull
appointed Archibald MacLeish to head
a committee to aid the library and the
Lima Geographical Society, also a
victim Of the fire.
Senior Jorge Basaore, director of the
National Library, was asked to list those
items needed which we could assist in
supplying. He did. Today, year later.
more than 5000 gifts Of books and other
material have been received. In addi-
ton, the American Library Association
has set aside $4,000 for new books for
the Peruvian institution.
The foundation has tried in other
ways to cement friendly relations with
Latin American countries Books on the
constitutional history Of the United
States have been provided q legal his
torian in Argentina.
And the library arranged with the
Carnegie Endowment for international
peace to send valued collection of
international law works to the Library
of the Faculty Of Law at Port-au-Prince,
Haiti.
The Brazilian Embassy recently pre-
sented the foundation with more than
200 volumes Of the Brazilian civilization
series. Peru recently sent a plaque
signifying its appreciation of the
foundations efforts.
Another phase is being carried on BY
the music division, through the Archive
of American Folk Song, the director
being DR.. Benjamin A. Botksn, editor
OF the best selling anthology "A Treas
ury Of American Folklore" This con-
ssts Of two-fold program Of folk
music in the United States and Latin
America. As part Of our cooperation
with Latin American countries, the
Library has received an appropriation
to exchange phonograph records Of our
folk songs with some so universities,
libraries and museums
The other half provides for record
Ing expeditions In Latin American
countries. In 1912 Or. Melville J. Her
skovits and his wife Frances went into
Bahia. In the interior Ct Brazil, with q
portable recording machine to record
cult songs in various dialects. Today
there are recording expeditions In Bra
! I'll, Panama, Mexico, Guatemala and
Cuba.
The sale Of more than 5000 records
indicate the popularity Of these record
ings with Americans. These were sold
within the last year to libraries and In
dividuals.
Exchange Of Records.
In exchange for rsccrds sent % Latin
American inst1tutionss ~ luxury &C.