National Library of Bahrain at Isa Cultural Centre

The National Library at Isa Cultural Centre is the national library for Bahrain.^[1] The library is housed within the Isa Cultural Centre,^[2] a national cultural centre affiliated with the Royal Court of Bahrain.^[3] The center was opened on 18 December 2008.^{[4][5][clarification needed]}

National Library of Kingdom of Bahrain at Isa Cultural Centre المكتبة الوطنية بمركز عيسى الثقافي بمملكة البحرين
26°13′14″N 50°35′58″E
Location	Manama, Bahrain, Bahrain
Type	National library
Established	18 December 2008; 16 years ago (2008-12-18)
Other information
Website	icc.gov.bh

Functions

The library is working to accomplish the following functions:^[3]

• 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.