How does the TrasAñihué Library play a role in the island society and its development?
It continues to both play, and discover, that role. We’re not a library that achieves an educational role or comes to make up for deficits or lack of productivity or failings resulting from a bad national educational policy over the past 40 years. Instead, we aspire to be a non-library, one that is more of a library than others. I’ve seen that without even attempting to do so, the library has earned a place within the small town of Añihué, this means that it’s already a part of the community’s organizations, as are the church, the sports teams, the school, cooperatives or the center for parents and guardians. I see value in this. I’ll tell you something: a graphic designer who did his graduating thesis on the Trasañihué Association gave the library a very simple sign that, in my opinion, is very good. It is a piece of wood with a drawing of a book that looks like a bird, and it says, “Trasañihué Library”. The librarian put this sign on the entrance to the library. Soon I saw that a spo
