Technical Department was formed on August 2001.

Number of Staffs: 6
Technical department deals with processing technical tasks of library materials (books only).

Tasks
 Acquisition
 Accessioning
 Classification
 Cataloguing
 Withdrawing
 Producing National Bibliography

Acquisition
Selection and purchasing of books are carried out twice a year.

Accessioning
All the books are accessioned and a unique running number is given to each and every book.

Classification
Dewey Decimal Classification DDC 21st edition is followed to classify the books.
Serials which are considered as significant are treated as books. A call number is created to each book along with the class number to form a location.

Cataloguing
Books are catalogued according to the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules 2 (AACR2).

Withdrawing
Books which are damaged, missing pages, which have fungus are withdrawn and discarded from the stock.
A withdrawal list is also maintained for reference.
Books are withdrawn in a period of one year.

Producing National Bibliography
The Maldives National Bibliography (MNB) published by the National Library of Maldives lists all the English publications available in the National Library. The first volume of the Maldives National Bibliography covers only from 1990 to 1995. Since, this is the first attempt to publish a complete one, due to the bulkiness of the document we decided to publish English and Dhivehi publications individually. One of the objectives is to list all publications published in the Maldives. However, this task has been severely constrained by the fact that there is no legal depository law in Maldives. Hence, this publication might not fulfill the goal.