Khosravi, FariborzAkbari-Daryan, Saeedeh2025-09-242025-09-242017Statute of the National Library of Iran (NLI), approved by the Islamic Consultative Assembly on 23 October 990. Manual of style of Andeshgah-e farhangi(2014).https://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/6486This paper reports an initiative by the National Library of Iran to make the library as a platform for intellectual elite to establish a dialogue on a wide range of cultural issues. Prominent authors, specialists from different fields come to the venue to discuss matters of interest. The initiative is a step toward the concept of library as a place. The programs include scientific, cultural, political, social discussions that organized in theorizing framework, free dialogue with presence of proponents and opponents as the round-table meetings.enAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Articlehttps://2019.ifla.org/open accessNational Library of Iran