A few days ago, Sandra Rodríguez Castañeda, anthropologist and friend of Bibliotecas Rurales, sent us some copies of the magazine Lectura. In the first edition of this magazine, December 2024, there is an article that Sandra wrote -from her experience and her heart- about the Network.
The article is entitled Domesticating the Word, Recreating Utopia and refers to Sandra's opinion and vision of our organisation and the lessons she learned in her conversations with Alfredo Mires - such as ‘getting to know oneself’. But Sandra's article is also an attempt to narrate the history of Bibliotecas Rurales: our beginnings, our concepts and our conception, our wanderings and growths, our stumbles and challenges, our dreams and visions, what we are and what we want to continue to be.
In an affectionate way, Sandra reminds us of Alfredo and the things he taught us over the years. She says: ‘Because after so many years, Alfredo continues to be an interlocutor in my head and the work of Rural Libraries a reference for me’.
It is the same for us, dear Sandra.
Thank you for your clarity, for your reflections and for this tribute.
