YEREVAN, DECEMBER 6, NOYAN TAPAN. 28 mln 62 thousand drams (about 66 thousand USD) was allocated by 2006 state budget for replenishment of funds of the National Library of Armenia. This exceeds the financing of 2005 by 6.2%. As David Sargsian, library Director, reported at the December 6 press conference, the number of new books got by the library this year will make about 40 thousand. In D.Sargsian's words, after the adoption of the law "On Compulsory Sample and Documents" more than 1625 new titles of books were given to the library by Armenian publishing-houses only in January-November. It was mentioned that in the same period the library received 1207 books from abroad and the number of donations made 6311. The donations were mainly received from U.S., England, Italy, Hungary, Egypt and Iran. A donation by Armenian journalist Hamo Petrosian residing in Germany, 12-volume encyclopedia "Die Grossen" has been given to the library lately. As the library Director said, the encyclopedia was brought to Armenia by President Robert Kocharian after his visit to Germany. In D.Sargsian's words, the library's goal is to get books published in Armenian in different countries, in particular, of old publication. It was mentioned that the National Library of Armenia purchased 82 titles of such books in 2000-2006 abroad. There are both original and photocopy variants among them.

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