Dr Francisco Luis Gomes District Library

The Library covers area of above 8000 square metres, comprising five floors, providing various services to the users.

This library is located just outside the city of Margao, which is also the headquarters of the South Goa district.

An estimated 40,000 books in diverse languages—English, Marathi, Hindi, Konkani and Sanskrit—besides newspapers and periodicals, are homed in this library.

Dr. Francisco Luis Gomes came to be known as a great Goan Parliamentarian, a linguist, thinker, master of several European and Indian languages, medical doctor, writer, orator, economist, campaigner for rights and social worker.

It serves the needs of all members of community without any distinction of class, creed, occupation, race, sex and specially those of neo-literates and children.

At present the library subscribes to 21 leading dailies in different languages and 174 magazines in all categories to serve user needs.

Readers and users are being permitted to carry their personal study books, laptops and notebooks.

The children’s section is on the third floor and consists of 5000 books and 274 CD/DVD materials, in addition to toys and games.

Members can borrow books and magazines for a period of one month, after availing of membership.

The regional office of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) in Goa is also located at this venue.