Formal Name: Biblioteca Nacional
Name of Librarian: Rosario Solano Murillo
Address:
C 15-17, Av 3 y 3b, Apdo 10008-1000, San Jose
Phone: 2212436 Fax: 2235510
Created in 1887, the Library of the University of Saint Thomas,
in the capital, San Jose, became the National Library when
that university was closed. Under a law instituted in 1910, the Nacional
Library became the depository, for the national bibliography, and publishers
were required to deposit their publications with it. From 1980 the National
Library became the center of a system of
libraries forming part of a national plan designed to centralize
cataloguing and classification. Access is provided in the Library,
through loans between the various libraries of the system, and through
loans for home use. The National Library maintains a National
Register of authors' rights and associated matters as well as the National
ISBN Agency. It publishes an "Index of Newspapers and Weeklies" and a "National
Analytic Index of Periodicals."
Sources:
World guide to libraries. New York: Saur, 1998.
World encyclopedia of library and information services. 3rd ed.
Chicago: American Library Association,c1993.