Belgrade City Library

Belgrade City Library (BCL) is the largest lending library in Serbia. It was created in 1929. It is a parent library for a network of 13 municipal libraries and their branches. Its holdings consist of almost 1.800.000 items, kept in about 70 facilities (1 central building with 4 dislocated facilities, 13 municipal libraries with 50 branch libraries, and 2 separate childrens departments) with a total area of 13.000 square meters. BCL has more than 150,000 users. The Library has about 230 employees. BCL is a patron library to more than 450 libraries (school, public and special) in Belgrade territory. The Central library is placed in one of the finest buildings in Belgrade, at the beginning of the pedestrian zone of Knez Mihailova street. It was built in 1867, at the very entry to Kalemegdan park, as Serbian Crown hotel. Since October 1986, the Belgrade City Library has been located at this place. The two main mottos of the BCL are The Library Cultural Heart of Belgrade and The L...