The building of the Central Library of the Bulungur district of the Samarkand region, established 74 years ago, was sold, media reports. Allegedly a third of the available books had already been handed over to waste paper.
In 1991, the library had a fund comprising 50,000 scientific, technical, historical, fiction, and other literature volumes. To date, 17,000 books have been handed over to waste paper, and the rest have been delivered to the Samarkand State Institute of Architecture and Construction (SamGASI).
The university was asked to keep the library in the area but refused, citing a lack of funds.
The books sent to the scrap cover technical specialties, mathematics, physics, geography, and biology in Russian and Uzbek languages. Hundreds of valuable books will be recycled ‘because they were published before 1976,’ educator Isroil Tillaboev, who covers problems in the field of education, wrote, suggesting introducing a moratorium on the transfer of libraries to entrepreneurs.
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