Central Library of Jorge Garces Borrero
Description:
The central library of Jorge Garces Borrero is located in the center of Santiago de Cali. It is part of the Friedrich-Karl Lehmann Museum of Natural Sciences.
The library of Jorge Garces Borrero was built in 1953 on the initiative of the Governor of Valle del Cauca Diego Garces Giraldo. He donated most of the books from a library that had previously belonged to his ancestors.
The Borrero Central Library is the second public library in the city.
The library is currently expanding. Its area is trying to increase by fifteen thousand square meters.
The library building is four-story. There are certain types of printed materials on each floor. Borrero has several halls. The largest hall contains eight thousand two hundred copies of books and eight hundred sixteen magazines. Among them are rare printed publications, the release date of which dates back to the beginning of the twentieth century.