National Library of Bangladesh

Library is a storehouse of knowledge that people usually visit to quench their thirst for knowledge. Prophet Muhammad [SM] once said that human beings need to seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. Since the flowering of the civilisation, people of all ages have been in quest of learning things. To pursue knowledge, zillions of libraries have been built the world over. In Bangladesh, especially in its capital Dhaka, people are also hunting for knowledge in multiple libraries. The national library is one of them.
After the 1947 partition of the subcontinent, the Pakistan government established the National Library of Pakistan in Karachi in 1962 and a provincial book deposit branch of the Pakistan National Library in Dhaka in 1967. In fact, that book deposit branch was the embryo of the National Library of Bangladesh which came into being after the independence of the country in 1971. The National Library of Bangladesh is the legal collection of all new books and other printed materials published in Bangladesh under the copyright law of Bangladesh. It was founded in 1972, but it traces its origins back to 1891, before the Bangladesh Liberation War and its independence.
Considering the necessity and importance, the government resolved to set up the National Library of Bangladesh in Dhaka. The library first started functioning with the manpower, resources and materials inherited from the Provincial Book Deposit Branch. Later on, in 1973, the two national organizations "The National Archives of Bangladesh" and "The National Library of Bangladesh" were merged with the name "Directorate of Archives and Libraries" under the Sports and Culture Division, Ministry of Education. A new building for the National Library of Bangladesh was built in 1985 and the library was shifted to its present place, called Jatiya Granthagar Bhavan in Dhaka’s Agargaon area. The directorate of archives and libraries under cultural affairs ministry runs the library.

The national library’s specialty is its multidisciplinary collections. It preserves volumes of books, documents and papers for ages. All the citizens have access to the library. It is based on the confluence of the country’s creative and intellectual publications with the world-class latest representational books in addition to its special collections.

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