More than 10,000 titles from the personal collection of Emilio Rodríguez Demorizi are available at INTEC
Santo Domingo. After a meticulous work of three years, the Library Emilio Rodríguez Demorizi of INTEC puts at the disposal of the user community (researchers, teachers, students and interested parties) three large databases with the personal collection of who is considered the father of historiography modern Dominican
From 1986, the year of the death of Rodríguez Demorizi, the INTEC library bears his name, as a way of honoring the memory of who he was, not only the most prolific Dominican author (more than 120 books) but of which there are more registered titles in the catalog of the Library of Congress of the United States (some 140).
The collection consists of 10,988 titles of monographs, an inventory of the 1,546 titles of Dominican periodicals from the first half of the 52,813th century, and XNUMX articles from periodicals, which the author treasured at his home in the Colonial Zone, can be consulted today through the website http://www.intec.edu.do/biblioteca.
Lucero Arboleda, director of the library, said during the presentation that one of the objectives of the bibliographic work is to act as a meeting point, as a social institution committed to the democratization of spaces and resources for reflection, recreation or study.
"It is a representative collection of universal humanistic knowledge: history, literature, art, philosophy and sociology, of this author and patriot of the Dominican Republic. In this way, INTEC identifies, once again, with those who believe that culture is the universal way of accessing human dignity, "said Arboleda in his speech to present the collection.
The event was led by Leandra Tapia, Academic Vice-Chancellor, Bernardo Vega, representing the Emilio Rodríguez Demorizi Foundation, the historian José Chez Checo, who presented a portrait of the author, and Cayetano Rodríguez, representing the family, who spoke of the little-known facets of this author and his friendship with constitutionalists during 1965, despite having exercised functions as a diplomat during the Trujillo dictatorship.
The event was moderated by Professor Manuel Matos Diedoné, who presented an analysis of his students of the play "La tertulia de los solterones".
The Library initiated the digitization process of the titles of the hemeroteca collection with the greatest bibliographic value.
The "Emilio Rodríguez Demorizi" fund is added to other valuable personal collections delivered to the INTEC Library as a donation, such as that of Don Francisco Comarazamy, which allows contributing to the preservation of the national bibliographic heritage that makes it available and accessible to through services for virtual or face-to-face communities.