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Digital technology save the Iraqi National Library
8/5/2015
Baghdad
Dimly lit and covered by piles of dirt, that if the National Library in Baghdad , which includes a treasure of the ages that have passed on the country. In the old zero leaves many stories about sultans, kings and imperialists, socialists and stories of the occupation and liberation, war and peace. Trustees and academics Iraqis are working feverishly to keep the rest of the library, which includes records of Iraq , as they work in back-office dark in order to use allocated for document imaging lighting, after the library of thousands of documents lost in the height of the invasion, the US-led invasion in 2003, when the process is under way "digitize" the National Library to preserve the historical value that extends for a thousand years.
The head of the department Almaekerovilm Mazen Ibrahim Ismail in a statement carried by the agency "Associated Press" the American, "The Trustees are conducting Document Iraqi Ministry of Interior during the reign of King Faisal II, who ruled between the years 1939 to 1958".
He adds Ismail that "once it is set up and repair some old documents dating back to the era of the Ottoman by 200 to 250 years we'll start photographed on Almaekerovilm," and suggests that "those documents will not be available to the public immediately to ensure that the content alive to any threat in the future ".
As says Director of the restoration department Fatima Khudair that "the process of reform and recovery is not easy, so that each document the story of the puzzle, and that rupture some manuscripts due to excessive use and aging", and follow that "others have been burned due to militant attacks and sabotage, some remained of those petrified manuscripts over time because of moisture and high temperatures and look like large rocks have been extracted from the earth. "
It adds that "these books and documents are the most difficult to re-reform we apply the steam technology using specialized tools to separate pages", and change course, "but sometimes it be great damage to the degree of reform can not be with them."
It is said that the Iraqi National Library, which was created in the twenties of the last century, has affected a large part as a result of the unrest that followed in 2003, it has been the destruction of 25% of the books and 26% of the library archives, including the Ottoman records that are invaluable, while turning its archives from 1997 to 2003, burned to ashes after.
There are 400 thousand documents a rare return to the era of the Ottoman had burned and 4,000 rare book and manuscript destroyed as a result of damaged water pipes These included Hebrew and archives that were transferred later to Washington for repair
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8/5/2015
Baghdad
Dimly lit and covered by piles of dirt, that if the National Library in Baghdad , which includes a treasure of the ages that have passed on the country. In the old zero leaves many stories about sultans, kings and imperialists, socialists and stories of the occupation and liberation, war and peace. Trustees and academics Iraqis are working feverishly to keep the rest of the library, which includes records of Iraq , as they work in back-office dark in order to use allocated for document imaging lighting, after the library of thousands of documents lost in the height of the invasion, the US-led invasion in 2003, when the process is under way "digitize" the National Library to preserve the historical value that extends for a thousand years.
The head of the department Almaekerovilm Mazen Ibrahim Ismail in a statement carried by the agency "Associated Press" the American, "The Trustees are conducting Document Iraqi Ministry of Interior during the reign of King Faisal II, who ruled between the years 1939 to 1958".
He adds Ismail that "once it is set up and repair some old documents dating back to the era of the Ottoman by 200 to 250 years we'll start photographed on Almaekerovilm," and suggests that "those documents will not be available to the public immediately to ensure that the content alive to any threat in the future ".
As says Director of the restoration department Fatima Khudair that "the process of reform and recovery is not easy, so that each document the story of the puzzle, and that rupture some manuscripts due to excessive use and aging", and follow that "others have been burned due to militant attacks and sabotage, some remained of those petrified manuscripts over time because of moisture and high temperatures and look like large rocks have been extracted from the earth. "
It adds that "these books and documents are the most difficult to re-reform we apply the steam technology using specialized tools to separate pages", and change course, "but sometimes it be great damage to the degree of reform can not be with them."
It is said that the Iraqi National Library, which was created in the twenties of the last century, has affected a large part as a result of the unrest that followed in 2003, it has been the destruction of 25% of the books and 26% of the library archives, including the Ottoman records that are invaluable, while turning its archives from 1997 to 2003, burned to ashes after.
There are 400 thousand documents a rare return to the era of the Ottoman had burned and 4,000 rare book and manuscript destroyed as a result of damaged water pipes These included Hebrew and archives that were transferred later to Washington for repair
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