Qatar Digital Library

The Qatar Digital Library is an online library in Arabic and English, the fruit of a partnership between Qatar Foundation, Qatar National Library and the British Library. It was announced in 2012 and went online in October 2014, with a first-phase budget The Telegraph put at about £8.7 million. ¹

The library holds records from the British India Office archives on the history of the Gulf and the region, maps, photographs and recordings, and Arabic scientific manuscripts on medicine, astronomy and mathematics from the British Library's collections, all described in Arabic and English. ¹

The library reached about two million pages and almost 1.9 million users by 2021, and about 2.5 million pages at its tenth anniversary in October 2024. In April 2025 a memorandum of understanding was signed with the Bibliothèque nationale de France. ¹

The site is at qdl.qa, and the library has the Wikidata item Q21769876. ¹

• English Wikipedia, "Qatar Digital Library", revision 1376152857. ¹