>The Al Sa’eh Library was recently burnt, it was located in Tripoli, Lebanon, and held 80,000 books and manuscripts.
>Stub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Sa%E2%80%99eh_Library
>Source: http://rt.com/news/library-fire-lebanon-violence-176/
>Sadly the list keeps growing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_destroyed_libraries

Seeing things like this always saddens me.  Does anyone know if there were any copies of some of the older books?  Did they have any sort of scanning project in place?

Thank you,
Derric Atzrott