Mission and Objectives:
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina aims:
To be a center of excellence in the production and dissemination of knowledge and to be a place of dialogue, learning and understanding between cultures and peoples.
BA Objectives:
The unique role of the Library of Alexandria, as that of a great Egyptian Library with international dimensions, will focus on four main aspects, that seek to recapture the spirit of the original ancient Library of Alexandria. It aspires to be:
- The world’s window on Egypt.
- Egypt’s window on the world.
- A leading institution of the digital age.
- A center for learning, tolerance, dialogue and understanding.
Director’s Message:
The New Library of Alexandria, the New Bibliotheca Alexandrina is dedicated to recapture the spirit of openness and scholarship of the original Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
Its mission is
to be a center of excellence for the production and dissemination of knowledge, and to be a place of dialogue and understanding between cultures and peoples.
It is our hope that the New Bibliotheca Alexandrina will be a worthy successor to the Ancient Library of Alexandria. That great Library was a unique ecumenical effort of the human intellect and imagination, and remains engraved in the memories of all scientists and intellectuals to this day.
Reclaiming the Legacy of the BA:
First, There was the Dream…
Egypt. Land of the Pharaohs ... Gift of the Nile ... Awesome legacies of grandeur and achievement ... Monuments that defy time and reach to us across the millennia ...
To this land, 2300 years ago, in 331 BCE, Alexander the Great, Aristotle’s pupil, brought his dream of culture and conquest, of uniting the world and launching a new era.
Organization:
Law No. 1 of 2001
Concerning the Library of Alexandria
In the name of the People
The President of the Republic of Egypt
The People’s Assembly has enacted the following law and we have hereby issued it:
The Landmark Building:
The new Library of Alexandria, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, is a truly very beautiful building whose design at the architectural and structural levels merits our attention and would repay our study.
Located on a superb site on the historic eastern harbor of Alexandria, almost exactly where the old library and the royal palace of the Ptolemies once stood, the complex comprises three main elements: the pre-existing conference center, the planetarium and the new building.
