"I don't know why everything promising, everything good, in this country must be destroyed by the government and the officials with their greed and cooperation with the businessmen," said Zeinobia, a prominent Egyptian blogger.Hopefully we will hear more positive reactions from the Bibliotheca’s administration. This will be a black point in the record of Dr.Ismail Sarg El-Din if he insists on it.
By the way are you interested to know which chains are going to open in the bibliotheca ??
If you are interested then be my guest
a. Cilantro
b. Cinnabon
c. Mo'men (Bib. Alex. Admin says it would serve mainly 'dry food' which I highly suspect , Mo'men is an Egyptian fast food chain that does not have that sort of dry food in its menu)
d. Ben's cookies
e. Mr. Ice Cream (Shall I scream !!)
f. Diwan bookstore
Again and again does the Congress library have all those chains for its visitors and it is the CONGRESS LIBRARY ??
It is not about a dry food or coffee or a bookshop , it is about a matter of principle, people do not go there to eat but to read and to learn , they do not go to feed their bodies but their minds and souls.
Congress Library is not that loosing project as the Bibliotheca. To have losing library is the same as to have public restaurants which wouldn't be visited. It just costs money.
ReplyDeleteImagine a situation that Google would offer to scan all the books and create a search engine for free - the only price would be advert from adwords related to search. Is this against non commercial principle of library? There is no such a principle, if fast foods will attract more people to the library it's a win win situation, if not they will go bankrupt.
btw yahoo register 4000 restaurants in very very close distance to Congress Library
and so, the Alex bibliotheca follows on the footsteps of the Cairo book fair which should acutally be renamed "Cairo sandwich and book fair" hmmmmmmmmm yummy
ReplyDeleteI went to the Alexandria library last November. Read what exactly?
ReplyDeleteTHAT LIBRARY NEEDS BOOKS AND BADLY. The smallest public library in Canada has more books than that fancy building that has more space than shelves. The LIBRARY ADMINISTRATORS NEED TO GET DONORS DONATING EITHER BOOKS OR MONEY TO BUY BOOKS.
I was so very disappointed in the amount and quality of books there. Really, they should stop trying to make every damn thing in Egypt a tourist attraction to attract foreign currency while making it not worth seeing.
European and North American tourists have pretty deluxe museums and libraries.
Perhaps this is a lesson that you can rebuild what once was. Pretty building though even if it lacks books.
@John but did the administration of the Library open restaurants and cafes in the library itself ??
ReplyDeleteThere are other ways to generate money for the library
@helper F1 , do not even remind me with the Cairo book Fair
@La belle Canadienne, well people spoke about this problem also , the library up till depends on donations of books which is not enough still the solution is not to open a food court
This is just a bunch of BS, I mean come on!!!!!! A food court in a library?
ReplyDeleteWhy aren't people protesting????