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Director Brian Gambles said the library "fused the digital and the traditional"
The new £189m Library of Birmingham, which houses a collection of one million books, will be opened later.
The library has more than 200 public access computers, theatres, an exhibition gallery and music rooms.
- Its most valuable books are copies of Shakespeare's First Folio and John James Audubon's Birds of America - worth between £6m and £7m each
- It can house 3,000 people
- It has nine floors - three of which are out of bounds to the public
- It has a brown roof garden with wild flower meadow
It will be officially opened by Malala Yousafzai, the teenager shot in the head in Pakistan by the Taliban for championing women's rights.
She was treated at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and now lives in the city.
Malala will place her copy of The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho in the library - the last book to go on the shelves. She will then receive membership to access the archive.
Library director Brian Gambles said the building had "echoes of the traditional round reading room with a modern twist".
"A fusion of the digital and the traditional is absolutely essential to the vision of the library we have," he said of the seven-year project he has led.
The new building also contains the Shakespeare Memorial Room, home to a collection of 43,000 books, including copies of the Bard's First, Second, Third and Fourth Folio editions.
Malala was targeted by the Taliban after campaigning for girls' rights to go to school. It was in part of the country where Islamic fundamentalists were trying to impose a strict form of Sharia law.
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