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>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Sa%E2%80%99eh_Library
Source:
<http://rt.com/news/library-fire-lebanon-violence-176/>
http://rt.com/news/library-fire-lebanon-violence-176/
Sadly the list keeps growing
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_destroyed_libraries>
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