(Republic of Lithuania)
Official language: Lithuanian
Official name of Parliament:
Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas
(Diet of the Republic of Lithuania)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Member of the ASGP
Library and information services to Parliament are provided by two
institutions:
(1) Information Analysis Department of the Seimas which includes
the Reference Reading Room for Members of the Seimas
(2) Lithuanian National Library to which the responsibilities of a
parliamentary library were assigned on 20 November 1991, and which
subsequently set up its Parliamentary and Government Information
Department
2. Address
(1) Lietuvos Respublikos Seimo Informacijos analizes skyrius
Information Analysis Department of the Seimas of Republic of
Lithuania
Gedimino 53
2002 Vilnius
Tel.: *(370)(2)626680
Fax: *(370)(2)224543
E-mail:
reblag@rc.lrs.lt
(2) Lietuvos nacionaline M.Mazvydo biblioteka
M.Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania
Gedimino 51
2635 Vilnius
Tel.: *(370)(2)629023
Fax: *(370)(2)627129
Telex: 261138 LTINF
E-mail:
biblio@lnb.lrs.lt
Homepage: http://www.lnb.lt/
3. Details
on the Library
(1)
Year of foundation: 1990
Person in charge:.: Ms Renata
BLAGNIENE
Position or official title:
Informacijos analizes skyriaus vedeja
Number of library staff: 30
Number of professional librarians:
4
Number of research and subject analyst staff
in the Library: 24
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 2
Size of collection: 12.000
Number of annual accessions:
1.800
Annual acquisitions budget: 240.000
Lt (~ US$ 60.000)
Number of current periodicals:
209
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: No
Press cuttings: Yes
Number of current newspapers:
33
Press cuttings: Yes
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes, by the Reference Reading Room
Library in charge of the archival materials
of the Parliament: No
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification
system for subject indexing: Thesaurus and classification
system
Automation of cataloguing: Yes
Is the automated library catalogue
accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?:
No
Clientele: Members, parliamentary
staff
Number of reading rooms: 1 (12)
Number of loans per year:
14.500
Reference services: Yes
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches: Yes
Analysis and research: Yes
Other special services: Radio and TV
monitoring, reviews from the news agencies
IFLA membership: No
(2)
Year of foundation: 1919
Person in charge: Mr Vladas
BULAVAS
Position or official title:
Direktorius
Number of library staff: 614
Number of professional librarians:
416
Number of other staff: 198
Size of collection: 9.000.000
Number of annual accessions:
92.000
Annual acquisitions budget: 1.300.000
Lt (~ US$ 325.000)
Number of current periodicals:
2.454
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: By the National Library
Number of periodicals which are currently
indexed for articles: 800
Number of periodical articles indexed per
year: 157.000
Number of current newspapers:
491
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library
and by the National Library (178)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes, by the Library
Library in charge of the archival materials
of the Parliament: No
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification
system for subject indexing: Thesaurus and classification
system
Automation of cataloguing: Yes
Clientele: General public
Number of reading rooms: 18
(439)
Number of loans per year:
1.430.000
Reference services: 34.563
Current bibliographies: 110
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
8
External database searches:
500.000
Analysis and research: Yes
Right to deposit: The National
Library receives copies of all books and periodicals published in
Lithuania and all Lithuanian books and periodicals published in
foreign countries
Depository library: European Union,
World Bank, Tatena
Other special collections of the
Library: Manuscript collection, rare book collection
IFLA membership: Yes
4. Publications published by the Library
(1)
Current issue briefs
Daily
Spaudos
aktualijos
Daily. - Abstracts of recent Lithunian periodical articles
Naujiena &
aktualijos
Weekly. - Abstracts of selected foreign periodical articles
(2)
Tarp
knygu
Monthly. - In the world of books
Bibliografijos
zinios
Monthly. -
Bibliographical news
Ekspres
informacija apie naujus spaudinius isejusius Lietuvoje
Quick information about new publications published in
Lithuania
Depozitiniu fondu
naujienos
Monthly. - News of the depository collections
5. Publications concerning the Library
(1)
Seimo
informacijos tarnybos. - 1993 Information services of the
Seimas
(2)
The Martynas
Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania. - 1993
6. Parliamentary documents
* Lietuvos
Respublikos Seimo dokumentu rinkinis
Code of documents of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania.
-
In Lithuanian,
* Lietuvos
Respublikos Seimo ... stenogramos
Proceedings of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. - In
Lithuanian
* Parliamentary
records
In English and Russian
* Valstybes
zinios
Official newspaper. - In Lithuanian
(updated in October 1998)