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History & Collections


Because of the civil war, reliable information about libraries after the early 1980's is scarce. The National Department of Libraries was created in 1977. The National Central Library was enriched by the recovery of various private and official libraries that had been abandoned.


f. 1969; 84,000 vols; IFLA collection legal deposit, nat.deposit for UNESCO and FAO publs; Dir ALEXANDRA Aparicio.

Sources:

The World of Learning 1999 . London: Europa Publications Limited, 1998.
Wedgeworth, Robert, ed. World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services. 3rd ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1993. p. 51-52.
The World Book Encyclopedia of People and Places. Chicago: World Book,Inc., 1993. p. 32-33.
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