Pakistan
Directory Information
Formal Name: National Library
of Pakistan
Name of Librarian: A.H. Akhtar
Address:
Constitution Av, POB 1982, Islamabad 44000
Phone: 051-9214523 Fax:
9213754
E-mail: nlpiba@paknet1.ptc.pk
The National Library of Pakistan occupies a new building, completed in
the late 1980s, on Constitution Avenue in Islamabad, the capital. It has
an auditorium, 15 research rooms, seats for 500 readers, and
microfilming and computing services; its collection had reached 80,000
volumes by the late 1980s. It is also the temporary home of the federal
government's Department of Libraries, which publishes the Pakistan National
Bibliography.
Archival materials are maintained at the federal and provincial government
levels. The National Archives of Pakistan also holds private collections
and will house the Freedom Movement Archives, some 100,000 documents pertaining
to the All-India Muslim League. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs maintains
its archives independently.
Sources:
World guide to libraries. New York: Saur, 1998.
World encyclopedia of library and information services. 3rd ed.
Chicago: American Library Association, c1993.