Jaffna Public Library
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| Jaffna Public Library | |
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| Location | Jaffna, Sri Lanka |
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| Branches | 6[1] |
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Parent organization | Jaffna Municipal Council |
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Jaffna Public Library (Template:Langx; Template:Langx) is located in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. It is one of Jaffna's landmarks, and is run by the Jaffna Municipal Council. The library was built in 1933 and is Sri Lanka's second main public Library, only rivalled by Colombo Public Library[2] During the early 1980s, it was one of the biggest libraries in Asia, containing over 97,000 books and manuscripts.[3][4] In 1981, it was burned down in a deliberate mob attack.[5] Over a million books were burned in the 1981 arson attack, and some ancient Tamil books and manuscripts were never recovered. In 2001, the renovation of the library was completed, with new structures being built and new books received, although its old books and manuscripts were not replaced.
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References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jaffna Library". Archived from the original on 2014-03-19. Retrieved 2014-03-19.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Up from the Ashes, a Public Library in Sri Lanka Welcomes New Readers". All Things Considered. NPR. Retrieved 2017-01-09.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Fire at Kandy public library". BBC News. Retrieved 2006-03-14.
- ^ Wilson, A. J. Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism: Its Origins and Development in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, p. 125
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Haviland, Charles (1 November 2010). "Sri Lanka's historic Jaffna library 'vandalised'". BBC News. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
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