According to the National Library of Sri Lanka, there are some 1,135 public libraries for the country's 20 million citizens. A small municipality can house its modest collection in the town hall.

The Jaffna public library has emotional significance for the Tamils of northern Sri Lanka. Organised Sinhalese mobs attacked and burnt it over two days in mid-1981, reportedly with the connivance ...

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka Jaffna Public Library has a painful history behind its pure white walls. It was burnt down during days of mob violence between May 31, 1981 and June 2.

The 25th digital library was officially launched at the Kirimetiyana Public Library in Wennappuwa recently, in commemoration of National Reading Month. The Sri Lanka Information and Communication ...

The reconstructed Jaffna Public Library. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Anton Croos Subscribe for ads-free reading It was May 31, 1981 when early signs of the looming civil war broke out on the Jaffna ...

The Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, donated as many as 16,000 books to the iconic Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka on Thursday. Read Ad-Free on App Continue on TOI App ...

Among the Noolaham Digital Library’s 16,000 documents are four volumes of one of the oldest Tamil grammar books, and copies of over 24 palm-leaf manuscripts.

The Jaffna library once held irreplaceable, ancient manuscripts, lost when it was torched in 1981. Fully restored, the beloved landmark today is filled with readers.