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A national library is a library that a government establishes and maintains, typically to preserve important books, documents, and cultural materials for the entire country. It serves as an official repository of a nation's intellectual and cultural heritage, making these resources available to researchers, scholars, and the public.
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A national library is a library established by a government as a country's preeminent repository of information. Unlike public libraries, these rarely allow citizens to borrow books. Often, they include numerous rare, valuable, or significant works. A national library is that library which has the duty of collecting and preserving the literature of the nation within and outside the country. Thus, national libraries are those libraries whose community is the nation at large. Examples include the British Library in London, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.
There are wider definitions of a national library which put less emphasis on the repository character.