Library exhibit looks at hurricanes
We’ve been hearing a lot lately about high tech additions to our schools and libraries in the form of internet connected computers. But there is more going on at the nation’s libraries than electronics. One old fashioned exhibition is reminding students that hurricanes are nothing to play with.
Jacqueline Woods, Reporting
The exhibition is part of a promotional campaign by a group of employees at the Leo Bradley National Library Service.
Glen Barrera, Library Assistant
“Every month we do different programmes. Like, for example, we did Black History Month, we did Easter Month, we did Mothers Day, Commonwealth Day. Every month we try to do educational programmes, so we can attract the children, especially to come to the library and join the library and be members of the library.”
This month, Library Assistant Glen Barrera and his team went into
their archives and collected a series of dramatic photographs that
show the destruction caused by tropical storms and hurricanes. This particular collection dates back to September twenty-seventh, 1955, when Hurricane Janet laid waste to Corozal.
The display not only highlights the devastation, but the pictures also let you know just what progress has been made after the storms.
Glen Barrera
“While we were doing the one on hurricane Hattie, I had seen them over and over being that I work here, but to every time I look at it, it just gets more amazing; how the country has changed compared to back then and now. You know looking at it now you see the vast advancements and also the destruction, cause you can’t forget that, but it is just interesting that every time you look at it gets amazing.”
The Library is working closely with the National Meteorology Service. Throughout the week, a number of presentations will be made by personnel from the Belize Weather Bureau and the National Emergency Management Organisation, NEMO. Jacqueline Woods reporting for News 5.
The exhibition officially opens on Wednesday. Twenty-six primary schools are expected to attend. The show, which runs through June twenty-ninth, will be open from Mondays to Fridays from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and on Saturdays from 9:00 to 1:00.
