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The origins of a centralised library in Malaysia traces back to 1956, a year before Malaya's independence, when the Malayan Library Group submitted to the government a memorandum on Public Library Services for the Federation of Malaya. This led to the formation of a National Library Board with executive powers to review public library services on a national level and prepare the groundwork for the setting up of a national library. In the following years after independence, various organisations from relevant professions were invited to participate in planning of the National Library, including a M$500,000.00 donation from the Lee Foundation in 1962.
By 1963, a report on the establishment of the National Library in Kuala Lumpur was completed by the National Achieves of Malaysia. Within three years, this accumulated to the assignment of the National Library Committee by the government setting up the National Library under the advice of the National Library Board, the establishment of the Preservation Book Act 1966 that requires all publishers in Malaysia submit two copies of books to the National Library, and the founding of the first National Library at the Federal Government Building in Petaling Jaya as a unit within the National Archives to enforce the Preservation Book Act.
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Prior to the completion of a centralised National Library, the National Library was based in 8 different branches over the course of 28 years, encompassing various buildings in Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya. After 1992, all existing branch library services was handed over to Kuala Lumpur City Hall.