Honduras

Directory Information

 Formal Name:           Biblioteca Nacional de Honduras
 Name of Librarian:    Hector Roberto Luna S.
 Address:                   Av Salvador Mendieta No. 411, Tegucigalpa
 Phone:                      228577

History & Collections

Most of the major libraries in the country are government libraries. The Bibioteca Nacional de Honduras is in the capital city, Tegucigalpa.  Founded in 1880, it has holdings of about 55,000 volumes. It shares with other libraries the legal deposit of three copies of each book published in Honduras, but enforcement of the law is not rigorous. From 1961 the National Library published an Anuario Bibliografico Hondureno.


Sources:

World guide to libraries. New York: Saur, 1998.
World encyclopedia of library and information services. 3rd ed. Chicago: American Library Association, c1993.