Restoration and Preservation of Tajik Rare Books for the Tajik Public

$51.2K USD

Funder	Department of State
Recipient Organization	U.S. Government - Department of State
Country	Tajikistan
Start Date	Oct 25, 2003
End Date	Mar 26, 2006
Duration	883 days
Number of Grantees	2
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`77391-48`

Grant Description

The main goal of this project is to preserve the books of national and world heritage and to provide free access to this heritage to the Tajik public.

An important part of the Central Scientific Library of the Academy of Sciences' collection is its stock of rare books that numbers more than 15,000 volumes in English, French, German, Arabic, Sanskrit, and Persian.