Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      Bibliothèque Nationale d'Algérie

    • Postal Address:

      B.P. 127 Hamma El Annasscrs - Alger
      Algiers
      Algeria

    • Location:

      1, Avenue Frantz Fanon - Alger

    • Telephone:

      +213 67.19.67

    • Facsimile:

      +213 67.29.99/68.23.00

    • Director:

      Dr. Amine Zaoui

    • Year founded:

      1835

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Library

    • Types of source material:

      Archival records
      Electronic archives
      Government records
      Manuscripts
      Maps
      Music
      Newspapers
      Oral histories
      Personal papers
      Photographs
      Posters

    • Size:

      Old head office: 10,456.5 linear meters; new head office: 10,114.5 linear meters

    • Holdings:

      Old head office (multidisciplinary collections) 308,316 volumes (monographs); New head office: 300,889 volumes (monographs); 2546 periodical titles

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      Arabic, French, English

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      Reader's card for researchers at the Master's level or higher (an exception is made for researchers who come from outside the wilaya of Alger.)

    • Access restrictions:

      Manuscripts, periodicals, and rare books. In-house use only.

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Card catalogs
      Guides
      Inventories

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications: