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Nablus Library is the oldest and largest public library in the West Bank. The library was established by the municipality of Nablus with aid from the Jordanian government in 1960. The building itself is a 19th-century Ottoman-era structure, which was a cafe in its former life. Surrounding the library building is a garden, used as a community space for lectures and events. During the First Intifada, while most schools and universities in the West Bank were shuttered, Nablus Library remained open. In the late 1990s, the library opened a children's department for the first time. As of late 2013, the library was constructing an audiovisual room.

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  • مكتبة بلدية نابلس العامة مكتبة فلسطينية من أقدم وأكبر المكتبات العامة في فلسطين، وتشكل مركزاً ثقافياً هاماً في مدينة نابلس، أُعلن عنها رسميا عام 1960م، أنشئت المكتبة العامة في حديقة المدينة العامة التي أنشئت في العهد العثماني وعرفت «بالمنشية» في ذلك الحين. تحتوي المكتبة على العديد من الموسوعات والكتب المهمة والقيمة المتعلقة بالتاريخ، والجغرافيا، وعلم الديانات، والطب، والاقتصاد، والعلوم، وقسم خاص بالأطفال وغيرها. ويوجد حول المكتبة حديقة مليئة بالزهور والأشجار. (ar)
  • Nablus Library is the oldest and largest public library in the West Bank. The library was established by the municipality of Nablus with aid from the Jordanian government in 1960. The building itself is a 19th-century Ottoman-era structure, which was a cafe in its former life. Surrounding the library building is a garden, used as a community space for lectures and events. During the First Intifada, while most schools and universities in the West Bank were shuttered, Nablus Library remained open. In the late 1990s, the library opened a children's department for the first time. As of late 2013, the library was constructing an audiovisual room. Nablus Library's circulating collection includes approximately 80,000 books, majority of which are in Arabic. Besides the circulating collection, Nablus Library also houses several significant archival collections, including the so-called Prisoner's Section, an archive of materials made and used by Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails between 1975 and 1995, as well as the personal collection of Qadri Tuqan, a Nablusi educator and one of the founders of An-Najah College, now An-Najah National University. Other collections include Palestinian newspapers dating back to the 1920s, as well as a collection of sharia court documents from northern Palestine spanning the length of the Mandate Period. Nablus Library also houses doctoral theses donated by students from An-Najah National University. In 2000, Nablus Library claimed to have approximately 500 visitors per day and 300 books lent out per day. According to the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, in 2000 the library had 27 employees, 4 of which were educated in library science. Today the library has 46 employees. (en)
  • La Nablus Public Library (مكتبة بلدية نابلس العامة) è la biblioteca più antica e più grande della Cisgiordania ed è stata fondata nel 1960 presso Nablus con il sostegno di re Hussein di Giordania. La biblioteca contiene circa 80000 tomi fra libri e manoscritti, fra cui molti importanti e di valore riguardanti storia, geografia, religione, scienza, medicina, economia ed altri. (it)
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  • مكتبة بلدية نابلس العامة مكتبة فلسطينية من أقدم وأكبر المكتبات العامة في فلسطين، وتشكل مركزاً ثقافياً هاماً في مدينة نابلس، أُعلن عنها رسميا عام 1960م، أنشئت المكتبة العامة في حديقة المدينة العامة التي أنشئت في العهد العثماني وعرفت «بالمنشية» في ذلك الحين. تحتوي المكتبة على العديد من الموسوعات والكتب المهمة والقيمة المتعلقة بالتاريخ، والجغرافيا، وعلم الديانات، والطب، والاقتصاد، والعلوم، وقسم خاص بالأطفال وغيرها. ويوجد حول المكتبة حديقة مليئة بالزهور والأشجار. (ar)
  • La Nablus Public Library (مكتبة بلدية نابلس العامة) è la biblioteca più antica e più grande della Cisgiordania ed è stata fondata nel 1960 presso Nablus con il sostegno di re Hussein di Giordania. La biblioteca contiene circa 80000 tomi fra libri e manoscritti, fra cui molti importanti e di valore riguardanti storia, geografia, religione, scienza, medicina, economia ed altri. (it)
  • Nablus Library is the oldest and largest public library in the West Bank. The library was established by the municipality of Nablus with aid from the Jordanian government in 1960. The building itself is a 19th-century Ottoman-era structure, which was a cafe in its former life. Surrounding the library building is a garden, used as a community space for lectures and events. During the First Intifada, while most schools and universities in the West Bank were shuttered, Nablus Library remained open. In the late 1990s, the library opened a children's department for the first time. As of late 2013, the library was constructing an audiovisual room. (en)
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