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In 1976, proclamation No. 50/76 gave the library the legal right to collect three copies of every material published in the country. [citation needed] In 1999, the library was reestablished by proclamation no. 179.1999 as a national institution, which resulted in structural changes and the mission to be one of the top five national libraries and archives in Africa by 2020. [2]
He introduced the collection of books in the form of a library, tax codes, as well as a centralized political system with respective administrative districts. [4] He also intended to reform the church but he was confronted by strong opposition when he tried to impose a tax on church lands to help finance government activities.
The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents.Topics of interest include accessibility of the collection, acquisition of materials, arrangement and finding tools, the book trade, the influence of the physical properties of the different writing materials, language distribution, role in education, rates of literacy, budgets, staffing, libraries for ...
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Flag of Ethiopia since 2009 Former Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi was one of the key founders of modern-day Ethiopia, under the FDRE system In July 1991, the EPRDF convened a National Conference to establish the Transitional Government of Ethiopia composed of an 87-member Council of Representatives and guided by a national charter that ...
The IES Library collects in the field of Ethiopian Studies (in the humanities and social sciences) [1] and also preserves Ethiopian manuscripts. Its Woldämäskäl Memorial Research Center holds most of the Institute's rare publications and manuscripts in Ge’ez , Amharic , Oromiffa , Tigrinya , and other Ethiopian languages.
* Chapter 1 - Historical Setting (John W. Turner) o Origins and the Early Periods + Early Populations and Neighboring States + The Aksumite State + Ethiopia and the Early Islamic Period + The Zagwe Dynasty + The "Restoration" of the "Solomonic" Line + Amhara Ascendancy o The Trials of the Christian Kingdom and the Decline of Imperial Power + Growth of Regional Muslim States + Oromo Migrations ...
Takla Sadeq Makuriya (1913–2000), historian and former head of the National Archives and Library of Ethiopia, wrote various works in Amharic as well as foreign languages, including a four-volume Amharic-language series on the history of Ethiopia from ancient times until the reign of Selassie, published in the 1950s. [95]