Shaikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa National Library
# Shaikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa National Library

The National Library at Isa Cultural Centre is the national library for Bahrain, acting as the legal deposit in the country. The library is housed within the Isa Cultural Centre, a national cultural centre affiliated with the Royal Court of Bahrain. The center was opened on 18 December 2008.

## Functions

The library is working to accomplish the following functions:

* Encouraging reading, research, reading and providing advanced library services to all beneficiaries.
* Collecting and preserving the national intellectual production in its various forms and informing about it through the issuance of national bibliographies and working to deposit it in the library.
* Collecting and preserving manuscripts, documents, rare books and government publications in all its forms.
* Providing various sources of knowledge in all its forms
* Develop the exchange of publications with national libraries and other information centers.
