National Library of Maldives
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The National Library of the Republic of the Maldives (Gaumee Kuthubuhaanaa) was established in 1945. It serves as the Public and National Library of the country, maintaining modern literature.
The library plays a major role in rendering its service to the general public, by providing a diverse collection of all published reading materials and documents within the country. This encourages reading habit and research work among the community, and are especially useful to students, teachers, researchers, Government personnels and children.
The National Library is financed by the government and functions under the Ministry of Information Arts and Culture.
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[edit] History
In 1945, the National Library of the Republic of Maldives was founded by the then head of Department of Education, Mohamed Amin Didi. It was known as the "State Library" then, but was later renamed as "Majeedi Library". In 1982, the library was once again renamed as the "National Library" by President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and to this day it functions under this name.
[edit] Collections and Facts
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- A wide variety of Arabic and Urdu books, in addition to Dhivehi and English books.
- Fiction & Non-fiction books of children
- An ample collection in Philosophy & Psychology, Religion, Social Sciences, Language, Mathematics; Technology (Applied science); The Fine Arts and Decorative arts; Literature & Rhetoric; Geography & History
- Reports, manuscripts, journals, phamplets and old newspapers are also available.
- The English section is divided into Reference Fiction and Non-fiction and contains more than 34,263 books.
- Dhivehi, Arabic and Urdu sections contain 8,860, 1,662 and 947 books respectively.
- Documents associated with Old Dhivehi literature (maintained for reference purposes only)
