When in January of this year the insurgents torched two libraries belonging to the Ahmed Baba Institute, as they were retreating from Timbuktu, the covert rescue operation was already half-complete - and the libraries themselves had been all but empty for months.
Over the course of two summer internships, I have worked on the Presidential Libraries team to collect a small sample of records related to Americans with disabilities.
Displays about phase two of the scheme will be touring libraries until 16 March.
In Doncaster, where the council agreed on Wednesday to close two libraries and hand 12 branches to volunteers, Mayor Peter Davies was asked on BBC Radio whether volunteers would need training and support.
These two books are important additions to the libraries of readers who want to learn more about how the tax system really works, and explore ways to fix it.
Plans to axe 36 jobs and merge two libraries in North Yorkshire have been approved by the county council's executive board.
But Bell Atlantic, which recently offered all state schools and libraries the means to connect to the Internet for two years, is quite understandably spending most of its capital dollars in the southeast corner, which accounts for 75% of the state's population and revenues.
On Tuesday night, the cabinet of Waltham Forest Council in east London voted to close two libraries.
Two new libraries opened this year, both designed by the architect David Adjaye, who is also on the team designing the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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Totaling 30 rooms including eight bedrooms, 10 baths, two libraries, and formal and informal dining rooms, it was the most expensive co-op price ever paid in the U.S. at the time.
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The most volumes listed in any catalogue is thirty-two million, the number in WorldCat, a database of titles from more than twenty-five thousand libraries around the world.
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