Funding shortage destroying ancient books
By An Baijie in Zhengzhou | China Daily | Updated: 2012-06-14 08:09
As much as 10 percent of the 500,000 ancient books in Central China's Henan provincial library were found seriously damaged because of a lack of maintenance.
More than 100,000 of the library's ancient books needed restoration and 50,000 of those were seriously damaged, Du Tao, director of the executive office of the Henan provincial library, told China Daily on Wednesday.
The library does not have sufficient funding or staff, and this has threatened the safety of the books, he said.
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