Biblioteca Engiadinaisa

Founded in 1961, Biblioteca Engiadinaisa is a foundation based in Sils im Engadin/Segl, Switzerland working on arts & culture, education, heritage.

The Biblioteca Engiadinaisa is a public library in Sils im Engadin, Switzerland, run by the Stiftung Biblioteca Engiadinaisa. Founded in 1961 by Louise Silverberg, it holds around 23,000 media items for adults and children in German, Romansh, Italian, French and English, and lends books, audiobooks, e-books, films, CDs and maps free of charge to residents and visitors. The foundation's purpose is to maintain a general public library in the Engadin that is freely available to the local population and to help promote and preserve the Romansh language. It also awards grants to private individuals and institutions for Romansh language preservation, local culture and adult education, and to public libraries in the Engadin, Val Müstair, Bergell and Puschlav. The library organises readings, book presentations, exhibitions and events, including work on the Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Friedrich Nietzsche heritage connected with UNESCO's Memory of the World register.