ARTICLE - REHAB. OF THE EMA LIBRARY

REHABILITATION OF THE EMA LIBRARY
(Haiti Libre) -

As part of a rehabilitation project funded in the amount of about US $40,000 by the Section of Human Rights (SDH) of the MINUSTAH [the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)], the library of the School of Magistrates (EMA) in Haiti has been transformed into a "modern documentation" center.

"The place is much more spacious. It was not like this before. There have been a lot of improvements," pointed out Mr. Jean Joseph Dorcély, Administrative Director of the EMA, indicating that the objective was "to transform the locale, which in 1997 housed a library, the office of EMA and sometimes was used as a conference room, into a true documentation center."

Now, the building of 260 square meters houses not only a library but also a reading room, a room dedicated for computers, three administrative offices, a storage room for documents and a reception hall.

As for the reading room, separated by shelves, it can "accommodate a hundred people and also serve as a conference space." Moreover, a mobile podium has been set up, indicated the director of the center, Mr. Fritz Gérald Tassy, who noted that the space had housed, in October, the opening ceremony of the judicial year..... the center is open to all "judges, legal professionals, students and researchers."