Installation at the Mohammed bin Rashid Library Dubai
In 2016, the government in Dubai began planning a new building for the library, which was founded in 1981. The architecturally ambitious building is reminiscent of a lectern or an open book. With a holdings of over 4.5 million media, the new building will house the largest library in the Arab world. At the same time, it will also have the highest technological standard: over 2 million e-books alone are made accessible by 2020.
The Mohammed bin Rashid Library in Numbers
4.5 million
media
$ 250.5 million
construction cost
9 million visitors
expected per year
Project background
Since the new library was to be equipped according to the highest technological standards, the most modern digitization solutions were searched for by tendering. Through our partner Naseej, the leading provider of digital transformation solutions in the Middle East, we were able to take part in the tender and convince due to the high quality of our products.
book2net action
Trotz erheblicher Einschränkungen aufgrund der Covid-19-Pandemie konnten die insgesamt 25 book2net Buchscanner im September 2020 ausgeliefert werden. Innerhalb von zehn Tagen wurden alle Geräte durch unsere Techniker vor Ort installiert. Das Bibliothekspersonal und die Mitarbeiter von Naseej wurden für den Umgang mit den verschiedenen Geräten sorgfältig geschult, um künftig ein reibungsloses Arbeiten in der Bibliothek zu gewährleisten.
Systems used
Results
The 25 book2net scanners not only make a fundamental contribution to the digitization of the valuable holdings, but also support the employees to a large extent in everyday library life. Especially against the background of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, they help to carry out online services reliably.
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