New university library to be built in Casablanca

A university library under the name “Regional Sekkat University” will be built in Hassan II-Ain-Chock University in Casablanca by January 2007. Le Matin reports Regional Sekkat University will be the biggest library in the wilaya with an area of 6988 square meters. 40,000 students will benefit from this new library, which will include a reading room, a research room, a center for conferences and a room for exhibitions. The estimated cost of the new library is approximately 40 million dirhams.