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France opened its new library in Tel Aviv in 2007, just a few months after the British Council closed there and shut down the British Council library in West Jerusalem. [74] In Gaza , the Institut français supports the Gaza municipal library in partnership with the local authority and a municipal twinning link between Gaza City and the French ...
In 2006, the Library launched a new online resource, British Library Sounds, ... Produced by the British Universities Film & Video Council , TRILT is a database of ...
Library associations connect libraries and library workers at the local, national, and international level. Library associations often provide resources to their individual and institutional members that enable cooperation, exchange of information, education, research, and development.
The British Library has acquired the private archive – containing notebooks, video and photographs – of Hunter Davies, the author of the only authorised biography of The Beatles to date.
The British Council Delhi building was a five-year project for Charles Correa (1987 - 1992). During this time Correa completed the Vidhan Bhavan ( Madhya Pradesh Parliament ), Bhopal (1987); a house at Koramangala , Bangalore (1985–88); the Jawahar Kala Kendra , Jaipur (1986–92); and the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and ...
"The art of elsewhere" (online text podcast) - A woman yearns to be 'elsewhere' on bleak house road - Kamila Shamsie remembers the British Council library in Karachi. "After life" The local paper mistakenly reports on the death of the narrator, then ten years later repeats the mistake, but this time is not so quick in acknowledging its mistake.
The British Council was founded in 1934 in London. [6] It opened its first branch in Dhaka in 1951 when Bangladesh was a part of Pakistan. [2] On 25 March 1971, at the start of Bangladesh Liberation War, the council office was attacked by Pakistan army, killing 8 East Pakistan Police officers guarding the office. [7]
The National Lottery Heritage Fund provided the UOSH project with a £9.5 million grant and other donors include the Garfield Weston Foundation, the Foyle Foundation, the Headley Trust, the British Library Trust and American Trust for the British Library, as well as other charities and individuals. The total project funding has now reached £18 ...