Department of Public Libraries

[5] In 2010 the department exchanged material on Bangladesh Liberation war with the National Library of India.

It houses the central administration of the Department of Public Libraries.

There are also Divisional Public Libraries in Sylhet, Chittagong, Khulna and Rangpur.

In August 2016 a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and the British Council Bangladesh formalising a partnership in which the British Council would work with the Department of Public Libraries to modernise the public library sector in Bangladesh.

[7][8] The project, called Libraries Unlimited, is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and managed by the British Council Bangladesh with a stated aim of "Opening access to information and knowledge for all in Bangladesh".