Armenia
Fire damages digital archives of Armenia’s National Library
Armenia’s National Library may have sustained ‘irreparable damage’ to its digital archives in a fire, officials have warned. Library officials say they discovered the fire damage on 10 May but did not go public with the discovery until Thursday. The cause of the fire, which occurred on 8–9 May, has yet to be determined. The library began digitising its archives in 2013. It holds over 6 million items in its physical collection, only a portion have been digitised so far. These archives in
