As part of the celebrations of the 13th anniversary of the opening of the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) Serageldin visits London to give a series of talks. Today’s talk is held at the British Library Auditorium, where Serageldin will be introduced by David Wardrop, Chairman of the British Friends of the Library of Alexandria. The speech title is “The Library of Alexandria’s role in creating the digital library of tomorrow”.
At the time of the inauguration of the BA, the British Library, in coordination with the UK Friends of the BA, arranged the gift the microfiche collection of its Arabic manuscripts.