Abkhazian Library revives from its ashes Istanbul/Agency Caucasus – Considered the greatest treasury of the Abkhazian history, the National Library is trying hard to survive with some books that have remained since the one-year period of warfare between 1992 and 1993 when the Georgian occupation set the library fire on.
Officials of the Abkhazian National Library are appealing to Diaspora for help with efforts to restore this historic treasury of books, where as many as 400,000 historical books were burnt and only some 300,000 books were saved.
Boris Cholaria, the Abkhazian National Library Director, issued a call for help from Diaspora to supply essential computer equipment for use in classifying books.
It was Hayri Ersoy who brought a letter from Cholaria that said both the Abkhazian House of Culture and the Abkhazian Library for Children were completely burnt down during the war, a disaster which left as many as 400,000 books destroyed: “Despite all setbacks of the war, a period of four years’ hard work restored the library back to operation in 1997. There is appreciably a greater need now for assistance from a high level of technology to classify all the saved 300,000 books and hundreds of thousands of many other periodicals in accord with the demands of the age. To this end, we tried hard to update our technological equipment. I have to admit that the efforts to update technological equipment available at the National Library remain insufficient. We can only afford to buy six computers currently. In effect, we need to have at least 40 computers to carry out our future plans of work. We do not have scanners and photocopy machines, either. We hope that people of the Abkhazian origin living in Diaspora will not choose to remain indifferent to our calls of help and will provide us with technological equipment. I would like to thank all of those who are prepared to help us.”
People in Diaspora launched a campaign of assistance in response to this call for help from Cholaria.
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