National Library of Jordan

The National Library of Jordan is the legal deposit and copyright library for Jordan[1] It was founded in 1977 [2]

National Library of Jordan
دائرة المكتبة الوطنية
CountryJordan
TypePublic, National library.
Established1977 (1977)
LocationHaroun Al Rasheed St 9, Amman
Collection
Legal deposityes
Websitewww.nl.gov.jo

History
  • 1977: Establishing the Directorate of Libraries and National Documents.[3]
  • 1990: The Directorate of Libraries and National Documents was replaced by two new entities:
  • Department of the National Library.
  • Documentation Center
  • 1994: Both the department of the National Library and Documentation Center were merged to be a separate department connected to the Minister of Culture under the name the Department of the National Library.

Department of the National Library tasks
  • National intellectual product promotion and preservation.
  • Collecting intellectual product mainly related to the National Jordanian Heritage. Other intellectual product area of interest: Arab World, Arabic & Islamic civilization, and Human Heritage in general.
  • Preserving documents from different public institutions, documents relevant to Jordan in addition to private documents.
  • Providing depository services.
  • Issuing the Jordanian National Bibliography.
  • Publishing and facilitating material related to libraries' work.
  • Coordinating the work of public libraries.
  • Allowing access to researchers.
  • Mutual lending with other national, regional & international libraries.
  • Organizing different cultural events.
  • Exchanging & gifting materials.
  • Cooperation with international entities in relation to library services.[4]
gollark: I MAY have to go back in time and erase "shingled magnetic recording" from existence.
gollark: They don't seem to have many WD disks in that.
gollark: Hmm. Perhaps seagate somewhat bad then.
gollark: ```ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 2 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 179 171 021 Pre-fail Always - 2033 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 168316 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 079 079 000 Old_age Always - 15354 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 2564192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 320193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 088 088 000 Old_age Always - 336830194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 126 080 000 Old_age Always - 21196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 2200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0032 088 088 000 Old_age Always - 8931```Wow, this disk is in a great state.
gollark: I don't see why I would want dead ones.

References
  1. Handbook on the international exchange of publications
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-12-06. Retrieved 2013-08-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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