Tibet Library

{{Short description|Library in Lasha, Tibet, China}}

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| location = Lhasa{{cite web |url=http://m.xinhuanet.com/xz/2020-04/23/c_139001346.htm|title=Tibet Autonomous Region Library reopens|author=|date=2020-04-23|accessdate=|work=Xinhuanet.com}}

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The Tibet Library ({{zh|s=西藏图书馆|t=西藏圖書館}}), or Xizang Library,{{cite book|author1=Ravindra N. Sharma|author2=IFLA Headquarters|title=Libraries in the early 21st century, volume 1: An international perspective|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RM2x4Vtx028C&pg=PA130|date=27 December 2011|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-027063-1|pages=130–}} also known as the Tibet Autonomous Region Library,{{cite book|title=Chinese Library Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C1dwAAAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Bibliographic Literature Press}} is an autonomous region-level public library of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, located at No. 25, Norbulingka Road, Lhasa.

Tibet Library broke ground on May 6, 1991, {{cite book|title=Chinese Reading Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qBy8AAAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Nanjing University Press|isbn=978-7-305-01568-7}} and was opened to the public in June 1996.{{cite book|author=Mingxu Xu|title=Intrigues and Devoutness: The Origin and Development of the Tibet Riots|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RAIOAQAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Joint Pub. (H.K.) Company|isbn=978-962-04-2338-3}} The library was set up at a cost of about 100 million yuan.{{cite web |url=https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/celt/eng/zt/zfbps/t125250.htm|title=New Progress in Human Rights in the Tibet Autonomous Region|author=|date=13 February 1998|accessdate=|work=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China}} It has 590,000 books{{cite web |url=http://www.china.org.cn/e-white/last/l-3.htm|title=Govt. White Papers - china.org.cn|author=|date=24 March 1998|accessdate=|work=China.org.cn}} and a floor space of {{convert|11000|sqm|sqft}}.{{cite book|author1=|author2=|author3=|title=National Support for Tibet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bekPAQAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Tibet People's Publishing House}}