The Liaquat National Memorial Library is a

Government of Sindh The Government of Sindh ( sd, حڪومت سنڌ) ( ur, ) is the provincial government of the province of Sindh, Pakistan. Its powers and structure are set out in the provisions of the 1973 Constitution, in which 30 Districts of 7 Divisions u ...

funded public library located at the Stadium Road in

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The National Library of Pakistan was established in 1950 as a branch directorate. In the year 1954, the Liaquat Memorial Library was declared a legal depository under the Copyright Law. This library continued to function of the National Library until 1986. Over a short span of few years the

library A library is a collection of materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes. A library provides physical (hard copies) or digital access (soft copies) materials, and may be a physical location or a vir ...

has acquired numerous collections through purchases, copyright deposits, gifts, exchanges, and donations. The library has total holdings of 144,000 volumes (73,000 English and European Languages, 40,000 Oriental Languages). Liaquat Memorial Library has been serving the nation for over fifty years and its collection of over 150,000 reading materials can now be searched online. The library has the biggest collection among the public libraries of the country. Liaquat Memorial Library holds thousands of volumes of books and other reading materials. Library is intended to be a reference library for all purposes, a working place for scholars, postgraduate students of social sciences and humanities and repository of national published literature for future historians.

Lincoln Corners

The library is a pakistani chapter to The Lincoln Corners; an Institution promoting the scholarships & educational gatherings naming it after Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States and a leader who promoted the values of equality among the people as according to David Hale, the US ambassador to Pakistan, while explaining the significance of the name and inaugurating the opening of the Corners alongside the chief minister of Sindh. The Library's director Bashir Abro further added, “We plan to have more libraries at the union council level to enhance reading habits,” said Abro, adding that there is a dire need for promoting a reading culture in our society. “I see the youth taking notes from their own books rather than using the reference books placed in this library”. Lincoln Corner (LCK) is managed by Pakistan American Cultural Center PACC.

External links

Libraries in Karachi

Liaquat National Memorial Library - Official Website

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