3000 PIECES OF BOOKS TO NAGORNO KARABAKH’S LIBRARIES

Aysor
Nov 6 2009
Armenia

Today the delegation of Armenian National Library in the framework
of the "Biblius" project will donate 3000 pieces of books to NKR
library, informed to Aysor.am Hasmik Ghazaryan the deputy director
of the Armenian National Library.

Half of the books have been transported to Karabakh yesterday, but
the solemn ceremony of donation will take place today.

"We had announced "harvesting" of books, during which was gathered a
rather big amount of literature around 8000 pieces of books. 3000 of
them have been donated by the National Library, more than 5000 books
have been donated by the publishers and those who have a private
library", – H. Ghazaryan explained.

The deputy director mentioned during the interview that only the books
donated by the Natioanl Library have been taken to Karabakh as they
didn’t have enough means to take all the books. In the same time he
informed that the rest of the books will be transported to Karabakh
and will find their place in the Library of Artsakh.

As Hasmik Ghazaryan stated, Karabakh’s libraries, just as it is in
other libraries of Armenian regions, lack for books. She mentioned that
the books denoted to the libraries are mainly fiction; there are also
historical books, informative books, books in different languages, etc.

"Unfortunately we do not get the literature coming out in Artsakh.

There are more than 15 newspapers published in Karabakh, the library
is getting half of them only and in not complete state", – told us H.

Ghazaryan speaking about the present problems.

On this occasion the deputy director of the library informed that the
delegation that has left for Karabakh is going to have meetings also
with the publishers of Karabakh in order to find a solution to those
problems and for strengthening the Armenian – Karabakh ties and to
pass the published literature on time.

It is already 3 years that the program "Biblius" exists and during
this period it has donated a great number of books to the libraries
of different regions of Armenia.