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History & Collections


The Bibliotheque Nationale in Lome was decreed a national library in 1969. It was originally established in 1937as the Service de la Documentation Generale, a documentation center to study documentation concerns in museums, archives, and libraries. It houses 13,600 volumes and 650 periodicals.

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Europa Publications Limited, The World of Learning 1999, Forty-Ninth Edition:1475.
American Library Association, World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services 3rded. 1993:817.
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