TY - JOUR AU - Hryćko, Katarzyna PY - 2007/07/18 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - An Outline of the National Archives and Library of Ethiopia JF - Aethiopica JA - Aethiopica VL - 10 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.15460/aethiopica.10.1.195 UR - https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/aethiopica/article/view/195 SP - 92-105 AB - <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="AethiopicaSummaryAbs1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: &quot;Ludolfus&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ethiopia is a country of a centuries-old tradition and history of writing. It possessed its own unique system for gathering materials of historical importance and a pecular library system. Throughout the years manuscripts were kept under the custody of Ethiopian Church monks. In the 20</span><sup><span style="top: 1pt; position: relative; mso-text-raise: -1.0pt;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>century Ethiopia</span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Ludolfus&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">’<span lang="EN-GB">s succesive rulers attached great importance to the building of a European style central repository of all written materials. They established and gradually developed the National Archives and Library of Ethiopia (NALE). The paper outlines the history of NALE from its beginnings up to now.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span> ER -