Biggest library in Middle East to open in Iran

A Very Short Blurb says the National Library and
Archives and Islamic Encyclopedia, expected to be the biggest library in the Middle
East, is currently being constructed in Iran.

The library is being built on a 100,000-square-meter
piece of land and will, hopefully, be inaugurated on February 11,
2004. The library would contain millions of books that
will meet the needs of scholars and researchers both in and out of the
country.