New Library of Alexandria
Bibliotheca Alexandrina opened on 17 October 2002. The new Library of Alexandria cultural edifice, and culturally, and engineered exceptional achievement. It was the new building of the Library of Alexandria in about the same old site, in the neighborhood near the royal palace, and the library from abroad designed in the form of an incomplete sun disk sunshine descending into the waves and disappears behind a wall, and a total height of 160 meters. And surrounded by a stone fence Aswan (Granite) crescent-shaped engraved with letters of the alphabet with a hundred and twenty different languages.
Ancient Library of Alexandria
Established the Library of Alexandria first in 288 BC, established the ruler of Egypt Ptolemy I on the advice of his advisor Demetrius Alvaleri, was the library of more than 900 thousand manuscript at the height of its glory, and I have been the library to accidents and fires several most famous fire charges Mothoradtha and Nfaúsha had to reign Roman Emperor Julius Caesar nearly in 48 BC during the War of Alexandria.The library has seen increasing Admhlala during the third and fourth centuries, and was burning what's left of it in the Serapeum in 391 AD, and killed Habathia (mathematics mark) and daughter last known scientists library (Theun) by a mob in 415 AD. That was before entering the Amr Ibn El-Aas to Egypt more than 230 years, and then disappeared Library
New Alexandria Library is located between the sea and complex theoretical faculties at the University of Alexandria, Shatby area, overlooking North encountered on the Mediterranean when the smooth tongue.The new library site is the same site Albrookyum (old Royal Quarter belongs to Greco-Roman civilization) as evidenced by the archaeological excavations carried out in the region in 1993 .
Library items:
Complex includes the Library of Alexandria: Main Library, Library Taha Hussein, Young People's Library, Children's Library, Media Library, multiple electronic resources, Internet Archive, manuscripts, rare books, the Archaeological Museum, the Museum of the lines, the Science Museum, Planetarium, Discovery Institute International Information Studies, Center for Special Studies and Programs, Manuscript Center, the National Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage, center lines, the Center for the Study of Alexandria and the Mediterranean Sea, arts center, conference center and ancillary services .
Library logo:
Library logo consists of three elements: the sun, the sea, Fanar .
And reflects "the sun" incomplete idea of continued research and Rehabilitation where the sun comes out from the sea will certainly life and light to the land of Egypt, which has been associated with the sun its civilization throughout the ages, as expressed element "ite" high above "sea" City Alexandria bride Mediterranean, home of the ancient Great Library.
Sections of the Library:
The library consists of the following sections :
- Main Library: It is equipped to serve the needs of the average reader, as well as researchers alike, have been distributed collections of books on seven levels starting with the roots of knowledge and ending with modern technology.
- Taha Hussein Library (for the blind and visually impaired): interested in making available all the resources in the library accessible to blind and visually impaired and by means of a special program that converts written material that appears on the screen to audible or written material in Braille. They can also search the library's catalog mail (OPAC).
Young People's Library: a specialized library for young people aged between 12 - 18 years, and aims to rehabilitate young people and trained to read and search until all of them are able to use all the services and facilities in the library home while under the age of 18 years .
- Children's Library: It is intended for children aged between 6-12 years, and aims to encourage children to read and how to search and is also designed to prepare children to use the main library in the future with all its services and capabilities .
- Multimedia Library: The library is a multimedia key elements in the library of Alexandria, where containing a selection of audio and video disks ROM (CD / DVD) in addition to cassette tapes and video tapes and CDs and slides and optical images covering all cultural purposes, next to books and periodicals in the field of music, cinema, theater and photography.
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Egypt