Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      The Gambia National Library

    • Postal Address:

      Department Mail Bag
      Banjul
      Gambia

    • Location:

      Reg Pye Lane

    • Telephone:

      +220 28 312

    • Facsimile:

      +220 223 776

    • E-mail:

      national.library@qanet.gm

    • Director:

      Abdou W. Mbye

    • Year founded:

      1946

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Library

    • Types of source material:

      Archival records
      Business records
      Government records
      Grey literature
      Maps
      Newspapers
      Oral histories
      Posters

    • Holdings:

      Books, newspapers, journal articles, government, local government, non-governmental publications, dissertations, reports on or about the Gambia or Gambians. Non-fiction, reference material and fiction published from the United Kingdom, United States and other African countries. The national collection not very strong approximately 3000 items, dating from the 1930s. About 20,000 works of world literature.

    • Receiving new material?

      No

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      Registration

    • Access restrictions:

      No

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Card catalogs
      Guides
      Inventories

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications: