Cultural Heritage Preservation Project - Term Paper

All had been employed with the library over 20 years.

Final Assessment

The building housing the National Library is unsuitable and has been damaged too intensely to be used. Even if repaired the location is unattractive, the facilities limited and architecturally indistinguishable. Recommendations are for a new library with steel framed construction of several floors linked to the National Archives by a pedestrian walkway.

Financial Assistance Provisions

Financial assistance will be applied for through the United States funding source as announced in the press release in April 2003.

The United States announced in this press release that it would contribute approximately $2 million "to help protect and restore key museums and archeological sites in Iraq." Further stated was that: "The funds will support specific cultural preservation needs to be identified in consultation with Iraqi cultural officials. The archeological and cultural heritage of Iraq documents over 10,000 years of the development of civilization. " the report stated that funds would be included in this contribution to: "re-establish a U.S. overseas research center in Baghdad, support for development of the "Red List of Iraqi Antiquities at Risk" by the International Council of Museums, and a searchable online database of images from the Baghdad Museum. The "Red List" will consist of categories of objects looted from Iraq and will serve as an aid in the interdiction and recovery of these objects worldwide."

References

The Library of Congress and the U.S. Department of State Mission to Baghdad Report on the National Library and the House of Manuscripts October 27-November 3, 2003 Online available at http://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/ir aqreport/iraqreport.html

Boucher, Richard (2003) U.S. Contributes $2 Million to Protect and Restore Iraqi

Washington, DC April 29, 2003 Online available at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2003/20055.htm

Arnoult, Jean-Marie (2003) Assessment of Iraqi cultural heritage UNESCO Contract 26-00-00 526A June 27 - July 6, 2003. [Online available at http://www.iflaorg/VI/4/admin/iraq2207.pdf]

Library of Congress Assists with the Reconstruction of the National Library in Baghdad

Library Specialists Participate in State Department Effort to Rebuild Iraq's National Library and Archives (2004) Library of Congress [Online available at http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-210.html]

The Library of Congress and the U.S. Department of State Mission to Baghdad Report on the National Library and the House of Manuscripts October 27-November 3, 2003 Online available at http://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/ir aqreport/iraqreport.html

Boucher, Richard (2003) U.S. Contributes $2 Million to Protect and Restore Iraqi

Washington, DC April 29, 2003 Online available at http://www.state.gov/r/pa / prs/ps/2003/20055.htm

2005-02027 Cultural Heritage Preservation Project.....