| 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 |
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| Size | 2,500 |
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| 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]
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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]
