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History & Collections


The national library of Cambodia, the Bibliotheque Nationale was founded in 1923 in Phnom Pehn as a national depository library. A recent estimate of the number of volumes in the library is 55,000 volumes, mostly in French. An ordinance of 1956 requires publishers to deposit five copies of all works published in the national library, and printers are obligated to deposit three copies.

Sources:

Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, 8th ed., v. 4, Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1995, p. 77
World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services, 3rd ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1993, p.162.
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