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Built on a 1.2 ha site, the National Library of Côte d'Ivoire (BNCI) was created by transforming the National Documentation Centre, itself a product of the Ivorian documentation section of IFAN (Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire, a colonial research institution in the fields of ethnosociology, anthropology, prehistory, etc. based in Dakar and which succeeded the Institut français d'Afrique noire in 1966). The BNCI was created in 1968 by decision of the Minister of National Education. At the instigation of UNESCO, Canada financed 80% of the cost of building the structure by means of a donation. Headed since 2008 by Chantal Adjiman, the BNCI comprises three entities (the children's library, the lending library and the research library) and has a collection of some 30,000 documents distributed among all national or country-related printed production (books, periodicals, engravings, maps, plans, postage stamps, audiovisual and electronic documents, photographs, etc.).), a historical and heritage collection inherited from the colonial period, various donations from partner institutions (in May 2016, the National Library of France donated 20,000 works of children's literature to the BNCI), NGOs (Cœur de France - Cœur d'Afrique) and volunteer clubs (donation of 1,200 works - history and geography encyclopaedias, dictionaries, novels, school textbooks, etc.). - on behalf of the Lions Club), and the Akwaba digital library, accessible from the BNCI website, which allows consultation of treasures of national interest and remarkable items.
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