📋 Tender Overview
The application is compatible with support technologies for people with visual disabilities and will allow customizing content in native languages, starting with Quechua.The National Library of Peru (BNP) officially presented Bibliopunku, the first mobile application developed by the institution that groups all its services and brings them closer to citizens, at any time and from anywhere.
The launch, held at the headquarters of San Borja, brought together state authorities, representatives of the Academy, allied institutions and the library community, who knew firsthand the functionalities of this innovative digital tool, whose name in Quechua means door to the library or door to knowledge.
Bibliopunku marks a milestone in the digital transformation of the BNP, by ensuring that all people - without importing their location or condition - can fully exercise their right to reading, information and culture. With an accessible, inclusive and intercultural design, the app is compatible with support technologies for people with visual disabilities and will allow customizing content in native languages, starting with Quechua.
MAIN SERVICES OF THE APP
Digital card for user identification.
Consultation and loan of books in the living room and at home.
Access to the Digital Library and Audiobros (including native languages).
Cultural agenda and notifications of activities.
Reserve of study rooms at the San Borja headquarters.
Chat in line with a librarian.
Geolocation of BNP headquarters and the National Library System.
Impact and innovation
With Bibliopunku, Peru joins the trend of national avant -garde libraries such as those of Spain, France and the United States, which already have mobile applications to democratize access to knowledge. However, BNP makes a difference with an app designed from interculturality, incorporating options that reflect the linguistic and cultural diversity of the country.
This is not a minor step: it is a milestone that reaffirms our commitment to cultural equity, with bringing reading and knowledge in increasing people. Bibliopunku is modernization, but above all it is inclusion and democratization of knowledge, said Juan Yangali Quintanilla, institutional head of the BNP.
The app is now available for free for Android and iOS, and is projected as a bridge between the cultural heritage of Peru and citizens, contributing to reduce gaps and strengthen reading as a fundamental human right.
Lima, September 5, 2025
Communications Office of the National Library of Peru
