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History & Collections


The National Library was established to collect all national oral and printed matter. It does not have its own budget, so new acquisitions come from gifts and copyright registrations.


f. 1976; 35,000 vols; Dir H. N. Amoussou.

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. 44, 111-112.
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