Myanmar (Burma) 

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Formal Name:        National Library

Name of Librarian: Khin Maung Tin
Address:                 Strand Rd, Yangon
Phone:     03-2923144     Fax:     03-2917436

There are two national libraries in  Myanmar,  one in  the capital city, Rangoon, the other in Mandalay.  Their  combined strength  approximated 100,000 volumes. with about a third  of the  materials  in  English.  The library  in Rangoon provides author and title indeses to leading Burmese periodicals from their dates of publication. The strength of holdings lies predominantly in primary source materials on colonial Burma: however, both libraries receive books and periodicals under the Press Registration Act of 1962 and are thus depository libraries.  In addition to periodicals and newspapers, the libraries also contain several thousand books in manuscript forin. Although open access not allowed, spacious reading rooms are availabls. The rate of acquisition exceeds several thousand titles a year and is primarily reflective of the quantity of publications in Myanmar.  Myanmar also has its Narional Archives, whose holdings include the entire run of the Burma Gazette.
 

Sources:

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