National Library of East Timor Biblioteca Nacional de Timor-Leste Biblioteka Nasionál no Arkivu Timor-Leste nian | |
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Location | Dili, East Timor |
Type | National library |
Established | 2009 |
Reference to legal mandate | Resolução do Governo n.º 24/2009 de 18 de novembro de 2009 |
Collection | |
Size | 2,500 |
Other information | |
Director | João Fátima da Cruz |
Employees | 10 |
The National Library of East Timor is the national library and the national archive of East Timor. Its building is under construction since 2011 in Ai-Tarak Laran, a quarter in the Suco of Kampung Alur in the Dom Aleixo Subdistrict of the country's capital Dili.[1]
The institution was created with a governmental resolution in 2009.[2] It is slowly building a Library catalog mainly with international donations. In 2014, the catalog consisted in 2,500 items donated by the National Library of Portugal.[3]
Groundbreaking for the library happened in 2017, while construction began in 2022.[4]