The Gulf's largest book collection, Qatar's National Library, has enhanced ties with libraries outside the region and wooed younger readers in its first year, as an anti-Doha boycott drags on.
Scores of children weave in and out of the banked rows of shelves or sit on beanbags clutching books at the foot of the vast columns that support architect Rem
"Unlike many of the national libraries, we have a public library function that goes alongside the national and research library functions."
"The ones we don't have in the collection are the ones that don't meet the standard -- we don't buy everything."
"Any library like the Qatar National Library, (for example) the New York Public Library, needs to reflect the needs and interests of its users and its population so our collection develops in response to what our users want," he added. "Certainly there is no censorship of any materials here."
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