Biblioteca de Catalunya
The Biblioteca de Catalunya, or *Biblioteca de Catalunya*, is the Catalan national library—created to collect, preserve, and spread Catalan bibliographic production and the wider work tied to the Catalan-speaking linguistic area. It was founded in 1907 as the library of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC), and it opened to the public on 28 May 1914. For its early years it was housed in the Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya, and in 1914 the Commonwealth of Catalonia reshaped the IEC library into a public cultural service. What gives this library its deeper significance is how its growth is tied to Catalonia’s political and cultural transitions. In 1929, the library was acquired by the city government of Barcelona, and in 1931 the older buildings associated with the Hospital de la Santa Creu were declared part of Spain’s historical patrimony—opening the door for a cession of major parts of the site to the library. …
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