Ukraine

Directory Information

 Formal Name:            Natsionalna Parlamentska Biblioteka Ukrainy, (National Parliamentary Library of Ukraine)
 Name of Librarian:     A.P. Kornienko
 Address:                    Grushevskogo, 1, 252001 Kyiv
 Phone:    (044) 2288512;     Fax:    2289847

History & Collections

The V. I. Vernadsky Central  Scientific  Library,  the  research  library  of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. is the largest library in Ukraine and the de facto National Library. It houses more than 12.500,000 volumes and receives more than 200,000 new publications annually, among them some 23,000 foreign volumes. It offers international interlibrary loan, access to electronic mail, and computerized bibliographic databases and plans an online union catalogue. The Library is a scientific research center in library science, bibliography, the history of books, and the computerization of library and information services.

The Library moved into a new building in 1989. Its  priceless  collection  of old  and  rare  manuscripts includes the "Assyrian-Babylonian book list" from the third century B.C. The Library also owns one of two existing copies of the "Hisrory of Animals" by Aristotle published in Venice in 1476.


Sources:

World guide to libraries. New York: Saur, 1998.
World encyclopedia of library and information services. 3rd ed. Chicago: American Library Association,c1993.