In parallel with the common research cooperation, National Libraries and Archives of Iran and National Library of Northern Cyprus (NLNC) signed a MOU. In this meeting which was held in NLAI venue, before signing the MOU, Ashraf Broujerdi, director of National Library and Archives of Iran (NLAI), told Kostas Champiaouris, the Minister of Education and Culture of Cyprus, “Iran and Cyprus have a common historical background, so we need to define a contributory plan on the common research works on the written heritage of both countries.” Later in this meeting, Kostas Champiaouris said, “NLNC is the house and shelter of our nation which has three buildings and 200000 titles of books with full equipments.It also is the entity where all books are published and processed and all documents and books with a very high quality standard are kept. Digitalizing books has been started in NLNC since 2008, as not only people of Cyprus, but also European people and other people in the world would use these books.”
Another NLAI recent cooperation was held in New Delhi. Iran in the New Delhi World Book Fair The 27th New Delhi World Book Fair was held with the participation of 1000 publishers from both India and 30 other countries in India on 5 to 13 January 2019. New Delhi World Book Fair has different sections such as public publishers, commerce, technology, social sciences, ebooks, children and young adults, Indian language and international publishers.
