Contact Information

• Name:

  Tanzania Library Service Board

• Postal Address:

  PO Box 9283
  Dar es Salaam
  Tanzania

• Location:

  Bibi titi Mohammed Road

• Telephone:

  +255 22 21 500 48/ 49

• Facsimile:

  255 22 21 511 00

• E-mail:

  tlsb@africaonline.co.tz

• Director:

  E. A. Mwinyimvun

• Year founded:

  1964

Collections

• Type of repository:

  Library

• Types of source material:

  Ecclesiastical records
  Government records
  Grey literature
  Maps
  Newspapers
  

• Size:

  Roughly 700,000 volumes

• Holdings:

  Our library was started in 1964 and it inherited materials that were under the East African literature Bureau. Among the holdings include very old newspapers, some German books and other publications like journals, etc.

• Receiving new material?

  No

• Languages:

  Kiswahili, English, French
  

Access Conditions

• Access conditions:

  membership fee

• Access restrictions:

  none

• Finding tools:

  Card catalogs
  Guides
  

• Copier available?:

  No

Repository publications: