Location of the National Library Buildings

Address: 5/7 Gudiashvili Street, Tbilisi 0108, Georgia

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Tel.: +995 (32) 297 16 02
Fax: +995 (32) 297 16 15

The library is open every day from 09:30 to 20:00. The library is closed on public holidays.

 The National Library Buildings I, II, III, IV are located in the center of Tbilisi, at Lado Gudiashvili and Anton Purtseladze streets, Building V is at  63 S. Tsintsadze Street (fromer Saburalo Street).

Building I, address: 5 Gudiashvili Street 

Rare Collections Reading Hall
- Henryk Hryniewski Art and Polish Literature Hall
- ISBN , ISSN and ISMN Division

 Note: due to reconstruction works the library Building I is temporarily unavailable to users.

 

Building II, address: 5 Gudiashvili Street 

- Reader Registration Office
- Merab Mamardashvili Civic Education Reading Hall
- Periodicals Reading Hall
- Reading Hall of the Soceity for Dissemination of Literacy among Georgians
- Deda Ena Hall
- Folklore Hall
- Chabua Amirejibi Cabinet
- Guram Sharadze Memorial Cabinet
- Georgian Emigration Museum
- Cabinet of Persecuted Literature
- Interlibrary Loans Division
- Independence Hall

 

Building III, address: 7 Gudiashvili Street 

- Administration Offices
- Public Relations and Cultural Programs Division
- Reference-Bibliographical Division and Reading Hall
- Kartvelology Division and Reading Hall
- Oriental Studies Reading Hall
- Electronic Resources Division and Liberty Digital Hall
- Music and Audiovisual Collections Division and Reading Hall
- Anglo-American Literature Reading Hall
- Wilhelm Humboldt German Literature Reading Hall
- Media Library of Georgian French Institute 
- Stefano Paolini Italian Library
- Vine and Wine Library
- Ukrainian Literature Library
- Cinema Library
- M. Makashvili Garden 
- Exhibition Hall
- Conference Hall
- Auditorium

 

Building IV, address :11 Purtseladze Street

- Digital Library “Iverieli”
- Conservation and Restoration Division

 

Building V, Kutaisi Book Depository, address: Kutaisi, 10 Nikea Street

In spring 2014, the National Library of Georgia acquired a building in Nicaea Street, Kutaisi, which has since been used as an additional book depository.  

 

Building VI, address: 63 Tsintsadze Street (fromer Saburtalo Street)

- Akaki Bakradze Cabinet
- AgroLibrary
- Barbare Jorjadze Cabinet
- Vato Rodonaia Cabinet
- Maksime Berdznishvili Cabinet
- Janri Kashia Cabinet
- Nodar Dumbadze Reading Hall
- Nikoloz Baratashvili Cabinet

 

Avlabari Illegal Printing House, address: 7 Kaspi Street

From 2012 Avlabari Illegal Printing House is the part of National Library of Georgia. In 1903, an underground print house was set up in the basement of a single-storey house in Kaspi Street.

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Reading Halls

Library Architecture