LISNews: Librarian News

Yet Another Story on the Great Library of Alexandria, this one from National Geographic doesn\'t break any new information, but does have a really nice picture. Here\'s Another.
You can also read Address of president Mubarak inaugurating Bibliotheca Alexandria.

\"Maintaining intercultural dialogue and interaction is the only rational way to eliminate violence and tension and build bridges among peoples using knowledge and peaceful coexistence as common bases of communication.\"

Charles Davis contributes this Guardian story:

\"A scholarly row has blighted the reopening of
Alexandria\'s great library.
It has taken 1,700 years to replace. But now the great library of Alexandria, whose precious manuscripts were torched in AD271, is about to reopen - to a reception blighted by controversy.\"

Read the full story.

Charles Davis writes \"From story at
Jordantimes.com. A total of 16,477 books are expected to arrive in Iraq
today as a show of solidarity in an initiative that has received
global support.

A 25-member Jordanian delegation from a number of
organisations will deliver the books to the ministry of higher
education in Baghdad, where they will be distributed to facilities for
higher education. \"

The Friends of Cuban Libraries write: \"The Friends of Cuban Libraries are making available information on a recently
transcribed BBC broadcast focusing on Cuba\'s independent librarians, which
was aired on May 1, 2002.

Since the BBC broadcast was aired, two of the volunteer librarians
interviewed on the program have received international awards for their
pioneering work in defense of intellectual freedom. Gisela Delgado was
awarded the Swedish Liberal Party\'s Democracy Prize, and Human Rights Watch
named Victor Rolando Arroyo as a winner of the Hellman-Hammett Prize, an
annual award given to persecuted writers and other defenders of intellectual
freedom.

Here is the text of the broadcast: -- Read More