The library provides the intellectual ammunition to aid government officers in policy implementation.[20] However, the general direction of policy instability due to the military incursion to power sometimes created an imbalance between the intellectual memory of prior policies and the intellectual foundation of a new government.[21] The library also stays afloat intellectually by receiving copies of books published in the country by both the government and private authorities through the legal deposit provision in the Library Act.[22] This makes the library one of the largest depositories of knowledge in the country.[23][22][24][25] It also collects publications on contemporary or new ideas from international organizations.