Bibliotheca Alexandrina to open this fall

Matt Eberle suggested
This One from The Washington Post on the Bibliotheca Alexandrina which is scheduled to open in the fall.


As with all large projects, they are dealing with years of delay, budget overruns and controversy over its warehouse-style collection policy.


\”We want to give maximum freedom to allow it to be an interlocutor\” with the world\’s great academic and research institutions, said Serageldin, The library director. \”One of the benefits is that it churns up intellectual activity in Egypt.\”