Public and National Library of Greenland, National library in Nuuk, Greenland.

The Public and National Library of Greenland is the national library with locations in central Nuuk and at Ilimmarfik university campus. It holds more than 100,000 items in Greenlandic, Danish, and English for research and learning purposes.

In 1829, philologist Carl Christian Rafn initiated a lending collection in Nuuk that began with 82 books. In 1956 Hans Westermann became Greenland's first professional librarian, and from 1957 legal deposit created the Groenlandica national library. A gas fire on 9 February 1968 destroyed about 26,000 books, including 6,000 Groenlandica volumes; the Groenlandica moved to the Ilimmarfik campus in 2008.

The name Nunatta Atuagaateqarfia means "our country's library" in Greenlandic. The Groenlandica department became the national library through the legal deposit rule of 1957, reintroduced in 1979, so copies of works printed in Greenland are kept here. Since 2009 the catalogue can be searched in Greenlandic.

The library is accessible at two locations with collections split between the main building and the university campus. Visitors can find materials in multiple languages, though you may need to visit both sites depending on what you are looking for.

The Groenlandica collection moved to the Ilimmarfik campus in 2008 with 16,000 works. A fire on 9 February 1968 destroyed about 26,000 books, including 6,000 from Groenlandica; part of Samuel Kleinschmidt's manuscripts survived as ice lumps from the extinguishing water and was sent to Denmark for restoration.