The House of Wisdom covers an area of more than 12,000 square feet and according to Emirates News Agency (WAM), the library will be ‘home to 305,000 books, of which 200,000 are in the digital format and 11,000 comprise books in varied languages’.
It will also feature a children’s library ‘The Little Reader’ which houses more than 2,000 books, while the library for youth will feature 3,000 titles.