Established 1974 Legal deposit yes | Reference to legal mandate Act No. 74-002 Founded 1974 | |
Country Democratic Republic of the Congo Location 10 Boulevard Colonel Tshatshi, Kinshasa Size 1.2m books 7,500 photographs, 175 periodicals | ||
National Library of the Democratic Republic of Congo (French: Bibliothèque Nationale de la République démocratique du Congo) is located in Kinshasa and was established in 1974 as an office within Ministry of Culture and Arts. In 1989, it became autonomous under presidential order.
In 2009, the Library received a $15 million initiative from the Model United Nations of the University of Chicago and UNESCO to modernize facilities, train staff members and purchase new technology and materials. Although the library contains over seven thousand historical photographs of the political and cultural history of the country, only 25% have been scanned due to a lack of resources.
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