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The Book of [the] Iran National Library. Tehran National Library and Archives of the Islamic Republic of Iran 2005 40p English text 112p Farsi text No ISBN
The political importance of national libraries has long been recognised in western countries. Middle Eastern and Asian countries with their very different political, religious and social contexts are no less aware of what is involved, although circumstances have, in many cases, been unfavourable to their aspirations. Iran is a country whose tangled history, which includes the 1979 Islamic Revolution, has, in terms of library development, made early efforts to promote libraries, but until recent times with limited success. The story of the National Library of Iran (NLI) is too involved to go into here, but the publication of a fine illustrated book to mark the inauguration of stage one of a splendid new building must be seen in its full historical dimension for an accurate grasp of the significance of the occasion. This review offers comments on both the progress of NLI and on the volume in hand.
The Book of [the] Iran National Library, issued in 2000 copies, celebrates the completion of stage one in May 2005. This stage provides a building with some 65 000m2 of space distributed over eight storeys, of which four are partly underground.…
Source: HighBeam Research, The Book of [the] Iran National Library.(Book review)