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Two months ago I started learning the Indonesian language, (or “Bahasa Indonesia”, in Indonesian). As I am a librarian, one of the first curiosities that I had about the country concerns its libraries, so I started googling using the following expression: perpustakaan site:id The National Library of Indonesia appears in the first results. Here is…
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In the last few weeks, more than 400 municipalities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul had entire neighborhoods damaged by the rain, making it the biggest climate tragedy in the state’s history, affecting more than 2 million people. On May 1, the government declared a state of public calamity. Pictures from NASA (the…