Somaliland National Library
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It'll look better once it's filled with books.
Hopefully this will be the first step to having a public library system for Somaliland. Hargeisa will be the knowledge and cultural centre of the region inshaallah.
somali architecture and designing is always so ugly and primitive. but thats so sick!! Is it like a regular library for like books and stuff? or one that holds ancient texts/documents/history etc.
Most likely regular books. Maybe they'll have a section for historical documents as well.
There's a lot of great things that could potentially be done with this library. Knowing Somalis, libraries will be popping up all over in the future.
is it funded by the goverment? or do you have to buy the booksMost likely regular books. Maybe they'll have a section for historical documents as well.
There's a lot of great things that could potentially be done with this library. Knowing Somalis, libraries will be popping up all over in the future.
It's privately funded. There was a charity drive to fund the construction of the building a few years ago.
Hopefully people will continue to give money to maintain and grow the library.
Just copying some interesting tidbits and not the whole article since much of it is filler explaining the history of Somaliland/Somalia (which I assume reer sspot already knows) to its uninformed readers.
http://www.citymetric.com/politics/...campaign-build-national-library-hargeisa-2979
Guys let's try to keep the discussion about the library and NOT about the current political situation in Somaliland and Somalia please.
"Since 2010, the Somali diaspora have been sending money, to pay for construction of the new building in the capital, Hargeisa."
"Rageeh Omar described the site of the new library in his fundraising video. It occupies 6,000m2 in the middle of Hargeisa, two minutes from the city’s main hospital, 10 from the presidential palace."
"And so, the new building will provide “the normal functions of public library, but also... additional services that are intentionally aimed at solving the unique education problems of a post conflict society”. It’ll provide books for a network of library trucks, providing “book services” to the regions outside Hargeisa, and a “book dispersal and exchange system”, to provide books for schools and other educational facilities. There’ll even be a “Camel Library Caravan that will specifically aim at accessing the nomadic pastoralists in remote areas”.
All this, it’s hoped, will raise literacy levels, in English as well as the local languages of Arabic and Somali, and so boost the economy too."
Now the scheme is moving to its second phase: books, computers and printers, plus landscaping the gardens. This will cost another $175,000. “We are also open to donations of books, furniture and technology,” Emli says. “Or even someone with technical expertise who can help up set-up the librarian system instead of a contemporary donation of a cash sum.” The Czech government, in fact, has helped with the latter: it’s not offered financial support, but has offered to spend four weeks training two librarians."
"On internet forums frequented by the Somali diaspora, a number of people have left comments about the best way to do this. One said he’d “donated all my old science and maths schoolbooks last year”. And then there’s this:
“At least 16 thousand landers get back to home every year, if everyone bring one book our children will have plenty of books to read. But we should make sure to not bring useless books such celebrity biography books or romantic novels. the kids should have plenty of science,maths and vocational books."
http://www.citymetric.com/politics/...campaign-build-national-library-hargeisa-2979
Guys let's try to keep the discussion about the library and NOT about the current political situation in Somaliland and Somalia please.
"Since 2010, the Somali diaspora have been sending money, to pay for construction of the new building in the capital, Hargeisa."
"Rageeh Omar described the site of the new library in his fundraising video. It occupies 6,000m2 in the middle of Hargeisa, two minutes from the city’s main hospital, 10 from the presidential palace."
"And so, the new building will provide “the normal functions of public library, but also... additional services that are intentionally aimed at solving the unique education problems of a post conflict society”. It’ll provide books for a network of library trucks, providing “book services” to the regions outside Hargeisa, and a “book dispersal and exchange system”, to provide books for schools and other educational facilities. There’ll even be a “Camel Library Caravan that will specifically aim at accessing the nomadic pastoralists in remote areas”.
All this, it’s hoped, will raise literacy levels, in English as well as the local languages of Arabic and Somali, and so boost the economy too."
Now the scheme is moving to its second phase: books, computers and printers, plus landscaping the gardens. This will cost another $175,000. “We are also open to donations of books, furniture and technology,” Emli says. “Or even someone with technical expertise who can help up set-up the librarian system instead of a contemporary donation of a cash sum.” The Czech government, in fact, has helped with the latter: it’s not offered financial support, but has offered to spend four weeks training two librarians."
"On internet forums frequented by the Somali diaspora, a number of people have left comments about the best way to do this. One said he’d “donated all my old science and maths schoolbooks last year”. And then there’s this:
“At least 16 thousand landers get back to home every year, if everyone bring one book our children will have plenty of books to read. But we should make sure to not bring useless books such celebrity biography books or romantic novels. the kids should have plenty of science,maths and vocational books."
Ahmed Elmi, the London-based Somali who’s founder and director of the library campaign, says that the Somaliland government has invested $192,000 in the library. A further $97,000 came from individual and business donors in both Hargeisa and in the disaspora. “We had higher ambitions,” Elmi tells me, “but we had to humble our approach, since the last three years the country has been suffering from a large drought.”
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It looks ugly and very basic. What happened to all the money donated is what I wondering
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