National Library of Guyana - Georgetown

The National Library service operates through a number of service points – the Central Library in Georgetown, Branches, Centres, bookmobile service, Deposit Collection and service to the prisons. The Central Library is the library for Georgetown and is also the administrative headquarters and as such is the policy making body, co-ordinates, monitors and evaluates the entire service. Branches are situated in towns. Rural areas are served by centres which operate on a part time basis and are manned by local library assistants, and the bookmobile service serves sparsely populated areas. A deposit collection is given to a community which is not large enough to support a library centre, or sometimes in special cases it is used to supplement the collection in a small existing library.