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Bulgaria
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National Library (founded 1878) in Sofia possesses a complete collection of the national production of printed materials, an important selection of foreign publications in all fields, and the country's largest collection of foreign periodicals- about 9,500 current titles in the late 1980s. It has a full collection of UN publications and the basic publications of other inter-national organizations. Its holdings total more than 6,000,000 accessioned items, including a significant collection of Bulgarian and foreign manuscripts and old and rare books. It also preserves over 3,500,000national and oriental historical documents and serves as National Archives for documents pertaining to Bulgarian history to 1900. (The State Archives is responsible for the preservation of documents relating to the 20th century.)
Since 1897 the National Library has been the national center of legal deposit, and it publishes the national bibliography. The national bibliography consists of separate accessions lists for books, maps, sheet music, and other items (issued biweekly); official publications and dissertations (monthly); articles from journals and collective works (biweekly); articles from newspapers (monthly); Bulgarian periodicals (annually); Bulgaria (quarterly); and the "Bibliography of Bulgarian Bibliography" (annually). There are also four annual cumulating: books and other materials, dissertations, sound recordings, and Bulgaria.
The National Library is an active bibliographic information center with emphasis on the fields of culture, ecology, economy, and law. It functions as a research institute in the fields of library science, bibliography, and book science, employing in 1990about 40 full-time research fellows and 15 research students.
As a national methodological center it provides help and guidance to regional and central research libraries and their networks. Since 1970 it has coordinated the basic library processes in the country's library system.
Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Bulgaria, 1040 Sofia; 1, 15 Noemvri Street,
Tel: (+359 2) 87-89-66;
Fax: (+359 2) 986-25-00
E-mail: library@cl.bas.bg or banlib@bgcict.acad.bg
Http: http://www.cl.bas.bg/default.htm
Narodna biblioteka "Ivan Vazov", (Ivan Vazov National Library)
ul. Vaptserov 17.4000 Plovdiv
Tel: (032) 222915
R. Koleva
1.3 mic vols; 739 curr per; 335 mss;
4134 incunabula: 21025 music scores;
3189 msps; 24780 microforms; 588
16,35 mm films; 11714 av-mat; 35908
sound-rec; 6482 Portraits and photos,
11750 Archives; Iibr loan 03711;
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