{"id":904,"date":"2017-11-11T14:23:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T14:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=904"},"modified":"2017-11-11T14:23:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T14:23:42","slug":"sharjah-public-library-launches-digital-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/sharjah-public-library-launches-digital-public-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharjah Public Library Launches \u2018Digital Public Library\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sharjah Public Library (SPL), a subsidiary of Sharjah Book Authority (SBA), has launched the \u2018Digital Public Library.\u2019 The initiative aims to bring together all cultural items held in Sharjah\u2019s libraries, museums, heritage sites and other state departments and make them available to a larger segment of readers, researchers and book lovers from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The project, which was announced during SPL\u2019s participation in the 36<sup>th<\/sup> edition of Sharjah International Book Fair, seeks to provide free access to digital holdings through the establishment of a large-scale digital public library that will be a key search engine for the public holdings of libraries, museums and other cultural heritage institutions in the UAE and in particular, Sharjah.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-905 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1095\" height=\"821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2-5.jpg 1095w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2-5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2-5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2-5-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1095px) 100vw, 1095px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharjah Public Library (SPL), a subsidiary of Sharjah Book Authority (SBA), has launched the \u2018Digital Public Library.\u2019 The initiative aims to bring together all cultural items held in Sharjah\u2019s libraries, museums, heritage sites and other state departments and make them available to a larger segment of readers, researchers and book lovers from around the world. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}