Le Monde des Livres, which comes out on a Friday, is much better than the British press at covering library stories. I've made this point before about their articles on Google, and in today's there's a front-page article on the Bibliothèque Nationale de France's (BNF) donation of half a million books to the Bibliotheca Alexandria. The Bibliotheca Alexandria's Director, Ismail Serageldin, describes this as the largest donation of books in history. Le Monde says that the donation consists of second copies of everything recevied on legal deposit by the BNF between 1996 and 2006. However, the article notes notes that 250 'livres ouvertement pornographiques' were excluded from the donation.
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