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...
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