Manaus Ágil tourism and culture of AmazonasHistorical texts and documents, legislationções, literary works and studies, photographs, cartographic collection and audiobooks can be accessed, in part or in full.
Having free access - anytime and from anywhere - to books, historicalórich documents and magazines é a reality for readers of the Amazonas Virtual Libraryof the State Secretariat of Culture (SEC). The online space provides about threeês thousand digitized works between cartographic collection, audiobooks, texts and historical documents, legislationções, works and literary studiesás, photographs, as well as informationções about the state libraries from different épocas.
With the objective of making available documentary sources about Amazonas and Amazônia, the Virtual Library makes it easy to access works such as "The Cabanagemby Jorge Hurley; "Antiguidades do Amazonasby João Barboza Rodrigues; "Amazonia, Culture and Societyby Djalma Batista; "Artesanato Popular" (Popular Handicraft)by Mario Ypiranga Monteiro; and "Azul Geral" (General Blue)by Ernesto Penafort and Tenório Telles (coord).
The cartographic collection contains maps, plans, and architectural projects related to the architecture and cartography of Amazonas. In addition, the main newspapers that circulated in the city from 1854 to 1986 and several books in full version can be made available upon request by e-mail [email protected].
Aiming to assist the visually impaired, some works are also offered in audiobooks (spoken books), with excerpts from great works of Amazonian, Brazilian, and world literature.
Space for research
Among the users of the Virtual Library is civil engineer Valter Bonetti. He manages the "Manaus Belle Époque" page on Facebook and used the library with the purpose of collecting files for his profile.
"From the time I started using the library, I never wanted to stop. I donãt work in history, I do it all for personal passion," she points out. "The author I consulted the most was Mario Ypiranga Monteiro, in a book about the streets and avenues of Manaus, and also a collection about the Adolpho Lisboa Market.
Asked about the reasons why he would recommend the Virtual Library, the engineer replies: "The Internet is an inexhaustible source of knowledge. When someone is interested in the content of my page and asks where I found the information, I recommend the Virtual Library, even to my friends from other states," he says.
To check out the works, just access the Portal da Cultura and click on the ícone of the Virtual Librarycone, located in the right corner of the screen.
