To survive is to escape and exist under a dominant power that controls, confines and eliminates threats and dangers. It seeks to command knowledge through the acts of censorship and restriction.
Survival of knowledge and ideas under dominant powers is determined through selection and choosing. Both activities draw the line of restriction, hence limiting the existence of opposition and resistance. Survival of knowledge and ideas, therefore, is the evidence that reveals the silent truth of oppressive regimes, freeing unlimited knowledge, intelligence and imagination.
The library seeks to break the wall of historical control and opening the door to suppressed knowledge, as well as retrieving forgotten knowledge in order to expand the boundary of ideas and connect them with the city, the country and the world.
