National Library targets 28,000 new book titles by 2015

KUALA LUMPUR: The National Library expects to receive 28,000 new book titles by 2015, in addition to the current 60,885; said director Datuk Raslin Abu Bakar.

He said the publication of reading material in the country was about 17,000 titles annually, based on the Deposit of Library Material Act 1986 where publishers needed to deposit five copies of their published reading material to the library.