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\"alexandriefrancis1<\/a>Alexandria<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Located not far from the ruins of its ancestor, the building containing the new library of Alexandria (Bibalex<\/a>) is alone worth the trip. The exterior of the building designed by the Norwegian firm\u00a0Sn\u00f8hetta<\/a>\u00a0looks like a sort of half-moon sitting on the horizon. The interior contains the largest reading room in the world, composed of seven terraced floors and containing 400 networked computers. The library has a small parchment collection, but the only manuscript that remains from the original library is in Austria. Here, you can only see a replica \u2013 results of a more recent past.<\/p>\n

The stacks currently contain 1.5 million volumes<\/strong>\u00a0(500,000 of which were donated by the French National Library), and can hold nearly eight million. But you get the sense that the library\u2019s importance is in something else \u2013 part of me even wishes it held no paper-bound editions.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore than a library of books, we want to create a series of platforms for disseminating knowledge,\u201d Mariam Nagui, director of exterior communication for the IT section \u2013 which has almost 50 developers \u2013 told me while showing around. Among the library\u2019s digitization efforts are an ancient copy of the Koran and of the Bible (in Arabic), placed side by side. You can search how and when the same word is used in either text, for example, \u201cpeace.\u201d It\u2019s very instructive.<\/p>\n

Books in the digital collections can be annotated and highlighted<\/strong>. Every user can have their own virtual bookshelves, and share what they are reading on Facebook and Twitter. Soon, they\u2019ll be able to share citations. All this is due to the work done by theInternational School of Information Science<\/a>\u00a0(ISIS, appropriately), which is located in the library.<\/p>\n

\"Bibalex<\/a>The Bibalex has received a lot of aid (private and public) from the exterior. One of the most symbolic instances, in my opinion, is that theInternet Archive<\/a>, run by Bruce Khale in San Francisco, installed a mirror containing all Web content from 1996 to 2007 there.<\/p>\n

The library also has a super computer that can be used by Arab researchers, at no charge, for efforts from data mining to genomics. It also contains a collection of PowerPoint speeches, launched with the University of Pittsburgh long before SlideShare.<\/p>\n

Outside of the website, which doesn\u2019t grant access to everything, the library has installed \u201cEmbassies of Knowledge<\/a>\u201d in \u201cseveral socially diverse and geographically distant locations throughout Egypt.\u201d There, people can access the library\u2019s collection of e-books.<\/p>\n

The reading room\u2019s computers are popular with the city\u2019s young people, who can use them for whatever they choose to pay (on average, yearly membership of less than 4\u20ac).<\/p>\n

Skeptics say that they come just to log into their Facebook page, but there\u2019s nothing wrong with this. It\u2019s part of the risks and rewards of web, net, and information technologies.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything we\u2019re doing today is digital,<\/strong>\u201d Nagui said. \u201cWe try to facilitate maximum access to what the library produces.\u201d What a revealing word. In the digital age, a library is not simply a repository of books, a receptacle of knowledge \u2013 it produces. Assembling and making accessible, it is transformed into a platform.<\/p>\n

I hope the Bibalex could last as long as the original, 650 years. That way we\u2019ll know if digital media will resist time as well as papyrus did. I\u2019ve seen many universities are were better funded and better connected, notably Stanford and Berkeley, but none is as symbolically important as this, both for its history and location. I\u2019m not sure how, but I think we should\u00a0all try to help<\/a>\u00a0make it a real place of open knowledge, digitized and distributed.<\/p>\n

Any ideas?<\/p>\n

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