National Library of Jamaica
National repository with a WorldCat catalogue, digital collections and poetry archive
By National Library of Jamaica
What it does
The National Library of Jamaica was established in 1979 out of the West India Reference Library, founded in 1894, and holds the national collection of Jamaican and Caribbean newspapers, manuscripts, photographs, maps and printed material. Its site is built around searchable services rather than static description.
The main catalogue is searchable through a hosted WorldCat instance at nlj.on.worldcat.org. Digitised material is published in a digital collections portal at nljdigital.nlj.gov.jm, with a separate Jamaican Poetry Archive at japoetryarchive.nlj.gov.jm and a poetry index search at /poetryindex/search.htm. A databases and resource guides section points researchers to subscribed and open resources.
Researchers register for reading room access online at /research/registration and submit research queries through /research. Reproduction and service fees can be paid online at /payment.
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- Online since
- 2012 · earliest first security certificate, .jm publishes no registration dates
- Site last changed
- 3 Sep 2026 · from the site's own sitemap
Detected automatically from public signals on 14 Sep 2026: response headers, page scripts, DNS records and public registries. It shows what is visible from outside, so it can miss things and can go out of date.
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