Dubai Municipality launches first library of recycled vehicle materials

Dubai - The move is in line with the directives of the President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan to make 2016 year of reading.

Dubai Municipality Transportation Department has launched the first innovative library using recycled vehicle parts. 
The library, made of parts from different types of vehicles and various equipment used by the municipality, will be opened in October to coincide with the national month of reading. 
The Department has prepared the first library with books specialised in engineering and mechanical maintenance, innovation and management sciences and religious books in several languages in order to open the door for reading for all employees and more focus is given to books in Arabic. 
The move is in line with the directives of the President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan to make 2016 year of reading, and the subsequent issuance of the guidelines by the Council of Ministers to start preparing a comprehensive national framework to produce a generation of readers and establishing the country as the cultural and knowledge capital. 
Humaid Al Marri, Director of the Transportation Department at Dubai Municipality said that the library design was based on the concept of innovation, creativity and recycling in accordance with government guidelines. 
"All library components came from cutting dilapidated equipment, which was used in the framework of the concept of recycling rather than land filled as waste," he said. 
Al Marri said the library has been designed as a rotating shelfsystem and managed electronically. "It has been built in a purely local style in the model of a Barjeel (Traditional Wind Tower) to preserve the local heritage of the country. A model of the Holy Quran with a verse that urges people to read is placed on top of the rotating library," he said. 
The library includes four valuable books, "My Vision" by His Highness Shaikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE, and Ruler of Dubai, and two books on the late Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan and the book of His Highness Shaikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qassimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah. 
The library also includes several other books, most notably the Islamic books and Arabic language books of all kinds, especially with respect to linguistics, literature, rhetoric, literary criticism, and many historical and Arabic novels, in addition to hundreds of books on diverse topics, Arabic and international magazines and periodicals as well as books on creativity and innovation that encourage employee excellence in work. 
In addition to the shelf, a mini hall with a table and two chairs made from recycled vehicle parts is also prepared, and the floor of this hall is also made of such recycled pieces in an aesthetic engineering way. The design of chairs is unique as the legs are made in the shape of Arabic letters and the table is also fitted with an Arabic sentence encouraging people to read. 
A set of incentives have also been developed for the employees of the department in terms of facilitating access to the library during the rest period at a fixed time daily or borrow a book for three weeks. 
As part of the library management, a wireless device will be used to rotate the library so that people can see the contents of the library from all sides, in addition to providing good lighting on the library as well as on the four sides of the Barjeel. 
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