Research library preserves country's great literature.

(From The Jakarta Post)

As part of World Literacy Day which fell on Sept. 8, The Jakarta Post's Leony Aurora has been investigating library facilities in the city. Today, we take a look at a literary-research library.

Time and bookworms have eaten away the edges of the translation of Alexandre Dumas' masterpiece The Count of Monte Cristo kept in the dim library of the HB Jassin Literary Documentation Center (PDS HB Jassin).

Visitors can still browse and even photocopy the brittle pages of the book, published in 1900, at the center, which is located on the second floor of a blue building behind the planetarium in the Taman Ismail Marzuki arts center …