Nepal National Library

The Nepal National Library (Nepali: नेपाल राष्ट्रिय पुस्तकालय) is the legal deposit and copyright library of Nepal under the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.

Nepal National Library
नेपाल राष्ट्रिय पुस्तकालय
CountryNepal
TypePublic, National library
Established1957 (1957)
LocationHariharbhawan, Lalitpur, Nepal
Collection
Size84,000
WebsiteOfficial website

History

It was established on 2 January 1957 and was initially based around the purchased private collection of Rajguru Hem Raj Pandey, an advisor to King Mahendra of Nepal. Items of the Central Secretariat Library were also brought into the collection totaling 34,292 items at the time of the foundation.[1] The library is located at Pulchowk near UNDP complex. At present the library has around 84,000 volumes of books, journals and other materials in different languages.

See also

References
  1. "History". Nepal National Library. Retrieved 1 May 2018.


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