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Assessment of damage to libraries and archives in Iraq, May 2003

Title
Assessment of damage to libraries and archives in Iraq, May 2003

Date
1 May 2003

Report
ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGE TO LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES IN IRAQ

1. Update based on:

2. Libraries in Baghdad:

Roper also lists 7 other manuscript libraries in Baghdad about which no information available.

3. Libraries outside Baghdad: Very little information yet available: a real urgency for this to be collected on the ground. NB It may yet well turn out to be that -as in Baghdad - the staff of libraries in other cities took precautions before the war and evacuated part or all of their collections:

Mosul

Basra

Other Cities

4. General conclusion re: libraries and archives in Iraq:

1 May 2003
Graham Shaw
British Library

Source
Assessment of damage to libraries and archives in Iraq, 1 May 2003