HJH Libraries for All Program

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Hester J. Hodgdon Libraries for All Program is a Colorado-based, tax-exempt charitable foundation established in 2003 to support the San Juan del Sur Biblioteca and to promote lending libraries in Central America.

In addition to its ongoing work in San Juan del Sur, the program has developed a variety of protocols and materials for new libraries, and its "library in a box" program has helped service groups, church groups and individuals to establish more than 12 additional libraries in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica. The signifance of these efforts lie in the fact that historically libraries in Central America do not loan their books and there is little or no access to books and information for any but the very wealthy.

The program has established relationships with publishers, book wholesalers, library associations, graduate programs, and others in the library field with the aim of providing the most important literacy tool of "books in the hands of children and adults" to increasingly larger populations in Central America.

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