From: Karin Zilla (karinz@certifiedemployment.com)
Date: Mon Jul 28 2003 - 09:51:35 PDT
Message-ID: <3F255497.DBDE9ED4@certifiedemployment.com> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:51:35 -0700 From: Karin Zilla <karinz@certifiedemployment.com> Subject: [Fwd: Librarian as hero in Iraq]
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From: RichardGuy@aol.com Message-ID: <1aa.17eb6ea8.2c55c934@aol.com> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 20:32:52 EDT Subject: Librarian as hero in Iraq
Worth a look for those who are searching for heroes......
http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=49737§ion=NEWS&subsect
ion=AMERICA_AT_WAR&year=2003&month=7&day=27
Sunday, July 27, 2003
No book burnings in Basra, thanks to librarian
Woman sneaked out 30,000 volumes before library was set ablaze upon troops'
arrival.
By SHAILA K. DEWAN
The New York Times
BASRA, IRAQ – Alia Muhammad Baker's house is full of books. There are books
in stacks, books in the cupboards, books bundled into flour sacks like lumpy
aid rations. Pull aside a window curtain and there is no view, just more books.
There are English books, Arabic books and a Spanish-language Quran. There are
manuscripts, some of them hundreds of years old, on the finer points of
Arabic grammar and the art of telling time. All told, Baker says, the books number
about 30,000. And then there are the periodicals.
These books are fugitives, and Baker, a 50-year-old librarian, is the
engineer of their underground railroad. As British forces stormed Basra in early
April, she spirited the volumes out of the city's Central Library.
The books constitute about 70 percent - all there was time to save - of what
was the library's collection. Nine days later, the library building was burned
in a mysterious fire.
.
.
.
"The books related to Saddam Hussein, we left them," said Hussein Muhammad
al-Salem al-Zambqa, whose nearby shop offers perfumed powder puffs.
Richard K. Moore, Librarian
Orange County Department of Education
200 Kalmus Drive, B-1027
P.O. Box 9050
Costa Mesa, CA 92628-9050
(714) 966-4208
Richard_Moore@ocde.k12.ca.us
http://www.ocde.k12.ca.us/library
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