Bats Help Preserve Old Books in Portugal

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Patricia Kowsmann, The Bats Help Preserve Old Books, But They Drive Librarians, Well * * * ' Staff wearies of endless tourists questions about bats that devour paper-loving bugs. Wall Street Journal, June 18, 2018 (front page).
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the ... ll-batty-1529251660
http://www.cetusnews.com/life/Th ... atty.B13kX7N-X.html

Note:
(a) "University of Coimbra's 300-year-old Joanina Library * * * The university—which was named a Unesco World Heritage site five years ago [in 2013] * * * the library, built in 1728 [construction started in 1717 and completed in 1728]"
(i) University of Coimbra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Coimbra
(1290- ; public;  in Coimbra, Portugal)

Cities of Coimbra and Mafra are 125- and 20-mile air distance from Lisbon. Relative to Lisbon, the former is at its 1 o'clock direction and the latter, 11 o'clock.
(ii) Joanina Library (Portuguese: Biblioteca Joanina) was built in the time of João V (English: John V; 1689 – 1750, reign 1706 – 1750) of Portugal. See (d).
(iii) Joseph HD Allen, Jr, Portuguese Word-Formation with Suffixes. Language (journal), 17: 3-143, at page 57
http://www.jstor.org/stable/522032
("§72. -INO, -INA")

Click the the blue tab in the right column with white-lettered "Download PDF" on the tab. This is the best I can get about the this Portuguese  suffix.

(b) Jorge Manuel Neves Justo Alexandre, who has been caretaker of Joanina since 2000 * * * Mr Alexandre was recently discussing the issue with Celeste Mateus, a library worker who was vacuuming the main entrance
(i) Equipa. Biblioteca, Universidade de Coimbra, undated
https://www.uc.pt/bguc/Informacoes/Equipa
("Assistentes Operacionais [which is the heading, whose English translation is: Operational Assistants] Jorge Manuel Neves Justo Alexandre [among many others]" )

The word equipa is Portuguese noun feminine for "team."
(ii) caretaker (n): "one that takes care of the house or land of an owner who may be absent"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/caretaker
(iii) Celestia (name)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestia_(name)
(means "heavenly" or "of the sky" in Latin)

(c) "The library's bats are small, often no more than 1 1/2 inches long, from a species called pipistrelle. A second species, called European free-tailed, may be present as well"

common pipistrelle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_pipistrelle
(Pipistrellus pipistrellus; is a very small species of bat)

Please check the genus name Pipistrellus in the Wikipedia for the meaning of the Latin word.
(d) "Years ago, when workers removed part of a shelf to repair it, they discovered a pile of bat guano about one yard high. A dark stain on the wall next to an opulent portrait of Portuguese monarch Dom João V seems to be a favored spot for bats to urinate."

guano (n; etymology)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guano

(e) "Joanina's treasures include the first edition of 'The Lusiads,' a Portuguese epic poem written in 1572 by the country's most famous author, Luís de Camões. * * * Mr Maia do Amaral ['Joanina deputy director António Maia do Amaral' is mentioned previously in this article] acknowledges that many of the library's visitors aren't really interested in those facts."
(i) Os Lusíadas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Os_Lusíadas
(ii) Portuguese-English dictionary:
* os (article): "masculine plural of article o"  (See do below.)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/os
* Maia (proper name): "a surname"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Maia
* do (contraction from [preposition] de of, from + [definitive article] o the)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/do#Portuguese
* Amaral (proper name; etymology: from amaral "a place with an abundance of sages"): "a toponymic surname"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Amaral
(iii) The Lusiads: "Its title is taken from the word Lusiads, which means 'Portuguese' and in turn comes from Lusitania, the ancient Roman word for Portugal. The Lusiads celebrates the glorious deeds of Portuguese explorers" in Great Discovery
Britannica Kids, undated.
https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/The-Lusiads/315649
(f) "Joanina's approach is unusual. Its librarians know of only one other site, the 238-year-old Mafra Palace Library, northwest of Lisbon, that has literature-preserving bats."

Palace of Mafra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Mafra

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(2) Julie H Case, These Portuguese Libraries Are Infested With Bats—and They Like It That Way. Smithsonian.com, June 7, 2018
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/t ... y-it-way-180969276/

three consecutive paragraphs:

of Joanina Library: "Want to see the bats for yourself? The best chance at glimpsing them in action comes at nightfall: Stand on the steps just outside the library's dense teakwood door, and wait for them to emerge and wing their way across the cobbled town square and into the hills.

"You can also try visiting the library on a rainy day, when the chirps and squawks of bats will often resonate from deep within the stacks. Librarians say they often hear the bats 'singing' — emitting social vocalizations — late in the afternoon on drizzly days.

"Some 125 miles to the south, just northwest of Lisbon, another colony of indoor-outdoor bats is in residence at the 300-year-old Library at the National Palace of Mafra. * * * Catching a glimpse of the bats here [Mafra] can also be difficult. The library closes before nightfall

Note:
(a) There is noneed to read the rest.
(b) tealwood  柚木
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/柚木
(原產地為緬甸 (Kyun)、印尼(Teak)、泰國(Teak)、婆羅洲、爪哇、台灣等)

does not produce pomelo 柚子.