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University of Sri Lanka from 1972 to 1978. In 1979 with the formal establishment of the University of Colombo, the University of Colombo library system was born. Due to a lack of a permanent building the units of the library kept moving until the Central Library Building was built in the late 1990s at Reed Avenue. The Law library collection was moved here to the second floor as collections of
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Oriental Studies faculties were moved in the early 1950s. With this move, collections of the library used by these faculties were shifted to the new seven-story library building in Peradeniya along with much of its administrators. The Medical Faculty Library remained at its original location
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