Invited to attend the centennial celebration of the National Library of China, Serageldin will give a lecture at the Symposium on International Progress of Libraries: Global Knowledge Sharing, which will be held as part of the celebrations. In a presentation entitled Libraries of the 21st Century, Serageldin talks of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the World Digital Library as successful examples of how libraries must evolve in a way that will benefit the public in this age of the Internet.