Poor Show
The report is yet to be in the public domain, but statistical date released selectively show the poor state of the Cyprus Library in comparison to other small European countries.
Cyprus, with a population of nearly 800,000 has its state library stocked with only 120,000 books , which works out at 1,5 books being available per 10 inhabitants, Iceland, with a population of only 306,694 has 1,000,000 books or 31,7 per 10 inhabitants. To make another Mediterranean island, the Maltese national library has 500,000 books and 10,000manuscripts for a population half that of Cyprus.
The Cyprus Library employs 13 people, compared to 83 for Iceland and 39 for Malta. The annual budget allocated to its state library by Cyprus is euro85,000 against Iceland’s euro4,515,017. There is no figure quoted for Malta.
Education Minister Andreas Demetriou said jokingly that if Cypriots wanted to borrow books from the state library all of a sudden there would be fights over who will get hold of them.
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