National Library Service of Malawi, National library in Lilongwe, Malawi.

The National Library Service of Malawi is a national library system that distributes materials across the country. It offers reading rooms, study spaces, and a collection of books to make knowledge and education accessible.

The system was founded in 1967 through an Act of Parliament and functions as the national legal deposit and copyright institution. This establishment made it the official body for preserving the country's written heritage.

The Malawi Folktales Project, run through the service with recording equipment and training from Sony Corporation at the request of the Malawi National Commission for UNESCO and the Global Future Charitable Trust, collects, edits and digitises traditional tales so they are not lost. The Malawi Library and Information Consortium, registered as a Trust on 8 March 2004, also gathers and preserves indigenous information in many formats.

The service runs fifteen libraries nationwide, four of them in Lilongwe built with the organisation Building Malawi. Books are ordered through the UK charity Book Aid International, while the Malawi government funds staff and management. In 2014 each library reached about 146,000 people a year, roughly 400 a day.

The Malawi Folktales Project, run through the service with recording equipment and training from Sony Corporation at the request of the Malawi National Commission for UNESCO and the Global Future Charitable Trust, collects, edits and digitises traditional tales so they are preserved before they disappear.