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Directory Information

     Formal Name:    Perpustakaan Nasional, ( National Library)
     Address:             Jln Salemba Raya 28, POB 3624, Jakarta 10002
     Phone:                (021) 3101411;    Fax:    3103551

History

The National Library was established in 1980, merging four libraries in Jakarta: the National Museum Library (established in 1778), the Library of Social and Political History, the Provincial Library of Jakarta, and the Bibliographic and Deposit Division of the Center for Library Development.

Collections

The main functions are: to preserve national imprints, to collect publications on Indonesia and works written by Indonesians, wherever they are published; to publish the National Bibliography; and to act as a national center for library cooperation in the country and abroad. A draft Legal Deposit Act was submitted to the Parliament in the mid-1980s. The collection totaled 650,000 volumes in 1984. The Library was housed in temporary quarters while a new site for the National Library building was under discussion.



Sources:

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