This document summarizes the collections available at the Pustaka Perpustakaan Dokumentasi dan Muzium Bahasa (Language, Literature and Malay Culture Documentation Library and Museum). The 3rd floor contains dictionaries and encyclopedias, while the 2nd floor has books for public borrowing which requires a membership card. The 4th floor houses theses, working papers, and magazines by DBP staff. The manuscript collection on the top floor contains over 300 manuscripts on language, culture, Islam, history, law, traditional medicine, the Quran, stories, and Malay literature. Some of the manuscripts have been recognized by UNESCO as part of the Memory of the World registers for their world significance

1. Language, Literature and Malay Culture

2. On Google map
http://pustakapdm.dbp.my

3. What can we find?

4. 3rd Floor
• Dictionaries
• Encyclopedias

5. 2nd Floor
• Books for public borrowing
• Requires membership card
(RM10)
NUR ASYIKIN BINTI AHMAD ZAUZI
03-2147 9631
Email : nur.asyikin@dbp.gov.my

6. 4th Floor
• Thesis by DBP staff
• Working papers
• DBP Magazine compilations

7. Manuscripts
PIC: Mohd Hapizan
mohdhapizan@dbp.gov.my
03-21479662
Cc email to: rabitah@dbp.gov.my
Che Rabitah

8. 300 Manuscript collections
• Language
• Culture
• Islamic
• History
• Law
• Traditional
Medicine
• al-Quran
• Stories
• Malay Literature
(Syair, Hikayat,
Gurindam, Pantun)
• Traditional
knowledges

9. Recognitions
• The Malay Annals, (Sulalatus Salatin) manuscripts recognised
• as Memory of the World Register, 2001.
• by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
(UNESCO)
• Kitab Ilmu Bedil recognised as
• the Memory of World Asia and the Pacific Register, 2016.
• National Heritage 2018, under national Heritage Act 2005 [Act 645]

10. en.unesco.org/programme/mow
Fulfills the criteria of :
World significance
Outstanding universal value.

11. National Heritage Act, 2005 (Act No. 645).
• An Act to provide for the
• conservation and
• preservation of National Heritage

12. Some of the books

16. Thank You