The history of the library

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AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS FRANCISCO DE HOLANDA: HISTORY OF OUR SCHOOL LIBRARIES

Public Library - Guimarães

The second place of the Public Library  

The Public Library was installed in the former Paços do Concelho building from 1975 to 1992.            

 Praise for reading
The Raul Brandão Municipal Library celebrated on 7 March 2012 its 20th anniversary, in the space where it is located and with its current name. To mark this date, the library promoted a set of initiatives open to the entire population.
On that same day, there was a reading session - Praise to Reading - led by about 600 students from Guimarães, who came from different schools and gathered in the library square. It was a real compliment to the book and to reading. Each school rehearsed their pupils who coordinated when they arrived at the library square.

At that time, the public presentation of the new itinerant library was made.

Who was Raul Brandão?

Raul Germano Brandão (12 March 1867, in Foz do Douro, Porto – 5 December 1930, in Lisbon) was a Portuguese writer, journalist, and military officer, notable for the realism of his literary descriptions and the lyricism of his language. Brandão was born in Foz do Douro, a parish of Porto, where he spent the majority of his youth. Born in a family of sailors, the ocean and the sailors are recurring themes in his work.

Brandão completed his secondary studies in 1891. After that, he joined the military academy, where he initiated a long career in the Ministry of War. While working in the ministry, he also worked as a journalist and published several books.

In 1896, Brandão was commissioned in Guimarães, where he would meet his future wife. He married in the next year and settled in the city. Despite living in Guimarães, Brandão spent long periods in Lisbon. After retiring from the army, in 1912, Brandão initiated the most productive period of his writing career. He died on 5 December 1930, at age 63, after a lifetime of writing and publishing.

                                                                                             https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raul_Brand%C3%A3o

Comparative scheme of the two public libraries