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`Biggest library in the country' to be completed by end of year

University of Indonesia (UI) has started building its new library Monday, which according to the university, will be "one of the biggest and most modern" libraries in the world as well as the biggest in the country

The Jakarta Post
Jakarta
Tue, June 2, 2009

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`Biggest library in the country' to be completed by end of year

University of Indonesia (UI) has started building its new library Monday, which according to the university, will be "one of the biggest and most modern" libraries in the world as well as the biggest in the country.

The eight-story library, built on a 2.5-hectare of land, is designed to house a collection of more than three million books and facilitate up to 20,000 daily visitors.

Located next to the campus's main lake, the new library, which will be opened to students and the public, has been designed to be eco-friendly, with some of its electricity needs to be generated by solar energy.

UI Rector Gumilar Rusliwa Somantri said he was expecting the new library - which still needed Rp 100 billion (US$9.8 million) in funding - to bring the university a step closer to becoming a world-class university.

"We hope the modern library will help UI become one of Asia's top 30 and one of the world's top 200 universities by next year," he said in the opening ceremony at the university's campus in Depok, West Java.

Gumilar, the university's 13th rector elected in 2007, decided one of his top priority was to make UI a world-class university while at the same time guaranteeing all students, including those from poor families, had the same opportunities to enter the university.

The 2008 Times Higher Education university ranking survey has ranked UI the 287th best university in the world and the 50th in Asia, higher than other top Indonesian state universities. (hwa)

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