National Library of Mongolia
Encyclopedia
The Mongolian National Library in Ulan Bator has a collection of about 4 million items including materials in numerous other languages. The collection includes historical materials in Mongolian, Manchu
, Tibetan
, and Chinese
. There are also contemporary collections in German
, Japanese
, and Korean
funded by non-profits from the respective countries in addition to a Soros Foundation
funded English
education room to help students prepare for language proficiency exams abroad. There is a United Nations depository reading room and 10 computers for Internet access. There are, however, only 2,349 books available for home loan. The National Library also has a significant collection of photocopied pictographs and old xylographed books. It appears to be the only library in Mongolia with a significant role in training library personnel, however, there is no indication that anything more than the basics are being taught.
A division of the National Library is the Children's Book Palace in Ulan Bator. This library was established to help compensate for the original children's library being turned into a branch of the Mongolian Commercial Bank. It has an impressive collection of over 100,000 books in Mongolian, English, and Russian
, in addition to three reading rooms. The reading rooms have titles like “Big Knowledge Man,” for younger children, “Dream,” for teenagers, and the “Education and Development” room with Internet access. The library has received the support of international organizations such as the Soros Foundation and Asian Development Bank
.
Manchu
The Manchu people or Man are an ethnic minority of China who originated in Manchuria . During their rise in the 17th century, with the help of the Ming dynasty rebels , they came to power in China and founded the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China until the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, which...
, Tibetan
Tibetan language
The Tibetan languages are a cluster of mutually-unintelligible Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering the Indian subcontinent, including the Tibetan Plateau and the northern Indian subcontinent in Baltistan, Ladakh,...
, and Chinese
Chinese language
The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
. There are also contemporary collections in German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
, and Korean
Korean language
Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...
funded by non-profits from the respective countries in addition to a Soros Foundation
Soros Foundation
A Soros Foundation is one of a network of national foundations, mostly in Central and Eastern Europe, which fund volunteer socio-political activity, created by George Soros, international financier and self-proclaimed philanthropist, and coordinated since early 1994 by a management team called the...
funded English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
education room to help students prepare for language proficiency exams abroad. There is a United Nations depository reading room and 10 computers for Internet access. There are, however, only 2,349 books available for home loan. The National Library also has a significant collection of photocopied pictographs and old xylographed books. It appears to be the only library in Mongolia with a significant role in training library personnel, however, there is no indication that anything more than the basics are being taught.
A division of the National Library is the Children's Book Palace in Ulan Bator. This library was established to help compensate for the original children's library being turned into a branch of the Mongolian Commercial Bank. It has an impressive collection of over 100,000 books in Mongolian, English, and Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
, in addition to three reading rooms. The reading rooms have titles like “Big Knowledge Man,” for younger children, “Dream,” for teenagers, and the “Education and Development” room with Internet access. The library has received the support of international organizations such as the Soros Foundation and Asian Development Bank
Asian Development Bank
The Asian Development Bank is a regional development bank established on 22 August 1966 to facilitate economic development of countries in Asia...
.