Bangladesh Central Public Library (Dhaka, Bangladesh)

At present, the Library has 1,19,75 books in its collection, including a good collection of old and rare books and manuscripts of immense historical value for research and reference. Bengali and English are the main languages covered. Besides there are books on other oriental languages such as undue, Hindi, Persian etc. The BCPL subscribes almost all the national newspapers and periodicals and a select number of foreign journals. Anglo-American cataloguing code and the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system with minor modification to suit the local need are followed for organizing library materials.