In 1977 the Directorate of Libraries and national documents was established where the Law explicitly states that one of its tasks is establishing a national library organization and administration of the Ministry of Culture No. 5 of 1990 was issued in 1990 in which the Directorate of Libraries and documents was abolished and Department of the National Library and Documentation Center was established instead.

On 16/2/ 1994, Regulation of Department of the National Library No. 5 of 1994, as amended in 1996 was issued in which the National Library and Documentation Center were merged, and Department of the National Library was established instead, to become the legal successor of the Directorate of Libraries, National Archives and has become under this system a separate Department connected to the Minister of Culture and carry out the tasks assigned to it.