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Founded in 1925, the oldest library institution in the UAE, with Arabic and English lending collections and quiet reading space.
A small open-shelf public library with periodicals and electronic databases, one of the few free reading rooms in Ajman.
A quiet Dubai public library devoted to art, architecture and design, with desks, exhibition space and computer rooms.
An open-plan glass library with study zones and shared workspaces that stays open until 11pm or midnight, free, with no membership needed to sit and work.
The emirate's largest library, a building shaped like a Quran lectern on the creek, with silent reading halls, study rooms and fast free Wi-Fi.
A library inside a philosophy research centre, opened in 2020, with Arabic philosophy, translations and classical works from Aristotle to Avicenna.
Open until 10pm on Sundays, with its own children's library and Arabic and English periodicals.
Al Ain's main public library, near Sulaimi Garden, with reading rooms, a theatre and free wifi.
Open every day until 8pm, with a 10,000-book children's annex and a rare books hall of about 1,900 titles.
A park library of more than 35,000 books that leans towards children and teenagers.
A 5,250-square-metre library built to feel like walking into a life-size pop-up book.
Three reading halls with more than 20,000 books, including an oil and gas collection, plus storytelling and puppet shows for children.