Tibet Library

The Tibet Library (simplified Chinese: 西藏图书馆; traditional Chinese: 西藏圖書館), or Xizang Library,[2] also known as the Tibet Autonomous Region Library,[3] is an autonomous region-level public library of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, located at No. 25, Norbulingka Road, Lhasa.

Tibet Library
Tibet Library
LocationLhasa[1]
TypePublic library

Tibet Library broke ground on May 6, 1991, [4] and was opened to the public in June 1996.[5] The library was set up at a cost of about 100 million yuan.[6] It has 590,000 books[7] and a floor space of 11,000 square metres (120,000 sq ft).[8]

References
  1. "Tibet Autonomous Region Library reopens". Xinhuanet.com. 2020-04-23.
  2. Ravindra N. Sharma; IFLA Headquarters (27 December 2011). Libraries in the early 21st century, volume 1: An international perspective. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 130–. ISBN 978-3-11-027063-1.
  3. Chinese Library Journal. Bibliographic Literature Press. 1998.
  4. Chinese Reading Dictionary. Nanjing University Press. 1993. ISBN 978-7-305-01568-7.
  5. Mingxu Xu (2004). Intrigues and Devoutness: The Origin and Development of the Tibet Riots. Joint Pub. (H.K.) Company. ISBN 978-962-04-2338-3.
  6. "New Progress in Human Rights in the Tibet Autonomous Region". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. 13 February 1998.
  7. "Govt. White Papers - china.org.cn". China.org.cn. 24 March 1998.
  8. National Support for Tibet. Tibet People's Publishing House. 2002.

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