Library of Alexandria in five years
The project to rebuild the Alexandria Library of the largest projects in the new millennium.
The library opened since the establishment of seven specialized research centers, opening a number of museums, and the addition of tens of thousands of books, whether through the supply plan and direct acquisition or through private gifting, in addition to organizing many activities and cultural events, scientific and educational local, regional and international levels.
And tracking the BA strategy objective, which complement and support activities for each unit activities related to other units in an integrated and harmonious has developed a strategy to achieve four main objectives of this institution as follows, which can library to become: the world's window on Egypt, and Egypt's window on the world, The leading institution in the new digital age, and a center of learning and dissemination of the values of tolerance, dialogue and understanding between peoples and cultures.
Library joined the World Federation of Library Federation, which includes a library of 30 major world libraries topped Library of Congress has not joined the Union over the past ten years only Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Alexandria Library contains time opening in October 2002 on a series of books and reached 200,000 in the coming five years was revised groups and increased, as has been the creation of a special group of multimedia for children and young people, and was created Web resources where we can count more than 25,000 online magazine and about 20,000 E-book.
BA set up the first digital library tracking systems in modern technological knowledge dissemination, where BA harness their energies and capacities to achieve global leadership in the digital area through a number of digital and technological projects, seeking in this regard to the establishment of several companies with cultural institutions And their counterparts from major libraries around the world, where aspiring through to achieve the dream of knowledge available to all, where each could have a link to the Internet and computer access to books and reading mothers and assets of human knowledge, and complementary roles of a number of specialized centres Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the numbering several projects for the conservation and heritage, and dissemination of available knowledge, and play the International Institute for Studies of informatics ISIS pivotal role in the implementation and the development of these projects.
Global Digital Library Project
Bibliotheca Alexandrina jointly with the U.S. Library of Congress largest global electronic library, under the project carries the name (World Digital Library)
www.worddigitallibray.org, which is based on digitization of rare and unique materials, including the following: manuscripts, maps , Rare books, composed music, sound recordings, films, literature, photographs, drawings and engineering libraries and cultural institutions from around the world, and work to make these materials free of charge The International Network of information (the Internet) through the portal is a huge global digital library, this project aims to support the global development and international understanding across different cultures, and enrich the international network of information and material content and cultural contribution to support research Academic and scientific, and this project seeks to develop the capacity digitisation office in the developing world so that all nations to participate and represent themselves in the global digital library, the project includes international partners including UNESCO, the International Federation of Library Associations ( IFLA) in addition to a number of major libraries in the continents of Asia, Europe, Africa and North and South America.
Draft million book
BA is working through a million books, in collaboration with its partners from China, India and the United States of America to research the book digitization million over three years, and made available via the Internet site, is expected to take the Alexandria Library at the forefront in this area , Through its survey and digitization of 75,000 books in Arabic during the three years, since the month of October 2003 by specialists through the use of five units scan, No. 10500 book, as the composition The data base includes details of these books, this project aspires to a long-term conversion of all books published books to digital, which represents a partnership between BA and many international institutions, to allow the creativity of human thought for the millions of people in the world sustainably .
BA also launched in collaboration with the Development Gateway Foundation in Washington, in the first week of March 2007, the digital version of the Arab Development Gateway, a portal on comprehensive and sustainable development. In this framework provides the Arabic version For the Development Gateway web site with specific mechanisms, frameworks and innovative art which aims to increase the effectiveness of national efforts for comprehensive and sustainable development, as put forward ideas about the scientific underpinnings and effective to build local capacity and facilitate the combination of national partners to further positive change In the common areas.