Paraná Public Library, Public library in downtown Curitiba, Brazil.
The Paraná Public Library occupies an 8,500 m² building near Praça Tiradentes, designed by engineer Romeu Paulo da Costa and inaugurated on 19 December 1954. Its collection exceeds 770,000 books, including Braille volumes, alongside newspapers, maps, sheet music, manuscripts, vinyl records, CDs and videos. A regional office of the National Library Foundation's Copyright Office also operates on site.
The institution was founded in 1857 and relocated several times during its development before moving to its current building in 1954. The building was later recognized as a heritage site due to its importance to the region's cultural legacy.
The library hosts exhibitions, book launches, seminars, literature, visual arts and craft workshops, film screenings, poetry readings and musical performances. It also houses a regional office of the National Library Foundation's Copyright Office, where unpublished and published works can be registered. Around 3,000 users pass through daily, with roughly 2,000 book loans.
The library stands at Rua Cândido Lopes 133, near Praça Tiradentes in central Curitiba. The building is listed as temporarily closed, so check before travelling. Its 8,500 m² hold around 3,000 visitors and 2,000 loans a day, and a regional office of the National Library's Copyright Office registers published and unpublished works on site.
The building was completed in just eight months and inaugurated on 19 December 1954 with President Café Filho present. It was the first work planned for the centenary of Paraná's political emancipation, and the project led to Paraná's first librarianship course, which trained 23 librarians hired by the state.
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