"[4] With the fall of communism in the 1990s, the NLA enacted new policies to overturn restricted and limited access to information and library materials.

[6] The NLA currently occupies two buildings and is organized and functions under the authority of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sports.

Its archive comprises a total of 1,169.767 books, periodicals, maps, atlases, microfilms and other library materials.

First enacted in 1922 and later revised in 1992, the NLA became the archival repository for all Albanian publications by the Legal Deposit Law.

For the national library network it publishes the scientific-cultural review Bibliothecae, textbooks, professional guides, and manuals.