National library Facts for Kids

the main building of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. served a national library

A national library is a library that is established to serve a country or a nation. Sometimes national libraries are dedicated to one subject and sometimes they are divided into several buildings.

List of national libraries

Listed according to the alphabetical order of the countries, the national libraries are located in:

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The Lindisfarne Gospels is but one of the treasures collected by Sir Robert Cotton.
Sir Hans Sloane's collection of books and manuscripts was bequeathed to the British Museum.
Montagu House, seat of the British Library, founded in 1753.
As librarian of the Bibliothèque Mazarine, Jacques Auguste de Thou transformed it into the largest library in the world at the time.
The Załuski Library of Poland was taken by Russia after the country's partition, and the collection formed the nucleus of the Russian Imperial Public Library, established in 1795.
National Library of Finland, Helsinki
National Library of India, Kolkata
National Library of Australia as viewed from Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra.
Swedish Royal Library in Stockholm
National Library of Ireland, Dublin.
National Library Building in Singapore
National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
The National Library of Venezuela in Caracas

National library facts for kids

List of national libraries

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