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Work begins on clearing National Library.

Today at 7AM the first 20 workers began clearing the National Library & Archives building (16 workers, 3 supervisors, 1 foreman). Provided with gloves, shovels, wheelbarrows & hammers, much progress was evident in only a few hours of work... but it's a large amount of space, so the work may take as much as a month, especially if some repainting or other finishing work is begun.

Tomorrow, over 30 workers will be on-site. The Ministry of Culture will be actually recreating the National Library's Archives at the ornate and undamaged building which was previously the Army Officer's Club in Al-Aadamiya (sp). The existing structure, which is relatively undamaged, will serve other purposes for the Ministry of Culture.