# Mission to Baghdad: Toward Rebuilding a National Library

This is an interview with two Library of Congress staff members who traveled to Baghdad in November 2003. Their mission was to assist the staff of the Iraqi Library and assess the damage to its building and its collections after two fires, extensive water damage and a devastating explosion.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2003
- By: Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division
- Genres: War
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687565/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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