The Victor Civita Latin American Library (in Portuguese ''Biblioteca Latino-Americana Victor Civita'') is a

public library A public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by librarians and library paraprofessionals, who are also Civil service, civil servants. There are ...

which is part of the

Latin America Memorial The Latin America Memorial (in Portuguese, ''Memorial da América Latina'') is a cultural, political and leisure complex, inaugurated in 1989, in São Paulo, Brazil. The architectural setting, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, is a monument to the cultur ...

in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The architectural complex, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, is a monument to the cultural, political, economic, and social integration of Latin America. Its cultural project was developed by anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro.Grande Enciclopédia Larousse Cultural, 1998, pp. 3920. It is a state public law foundation, with financial and administrative autonomy, linked to the State Secretariat of Culture. The Memorial has a permanent collection of works of art, exhibited along the esplanade and in the internal spaces, and has a documentation center for Latin American popular art. The library has some 30,000 volumes, as well as a music and image section. The complex promotes exhibitions, lectures, debates, video sessions, theater, music and dance performances. It maintains the Brazilian Center for Latin American Studies, an organization that promotes academic research on Latin American subjects. It regularly publishes the magazine Nossa América and a variety of books.Bravo! Guia de Cultura, 2005, pp. 138. It served as the headquarters of the Latin American Parliament from 1989 to 2007 (currently located in Panama City).

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Libraries in São Paulo Central Zone of São Paulo Libraries established in 1989 1989 establishments in Brazil {{Library-stub

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