print email comment close Diary of Saad Eskander, Director of the Iraq National Library and Archive URL: http://www.bl.uk/iraqdiary.html Description: This diary "starts in November 2006 and describes the perilous and tragic situation that the Iraq National Library and Archive [Baghdad] is operating under and which led to the institution's temporary closure at the end of that month." Browse monthly entries related to the damage the library sustained "[w]hen the Saddam regime was toppled in 2003, [and] the Iraq National Library and Archive in Baghdad was set alight and looted." From the British Library. Publisher: The British Library Board LII Database Information: Record 23547 created by Jennifer English on 03/19/2007 Last modification on 03/19/2007 Published: 03/21/2007   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/23547