Biblioteca Nacional de Uruguay

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Biblioteca Nacional de Uruguay
34°54′10″S 56°10′39″W / 34.902665°S 56.177513°W / -34.902665; -56.177513
Location	Av. 18 de Julio 1790, 11200 Montevideo, Departamento de Montevideo,  Uruguay
Type	National library
Established	May 26, 1816; 208 years ago (1816-05-26)
Architect(s)	Luis Crespi
Other information
Director	Valentín Trujillo

The Biblioteca Nacional de Uruguay is the National Library of Uruguay, located in Montevideo. It was created in 1815 and is the legal deposit and copyright library for Uruguay. It has been located in its current building since 1955. In 2006, it had more than 900,000 books, and 20,000 periodicals, audiovisual materials, maps, scores, engravings, watercolors, photographs and manuscripts.^[1]