Romania

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 Formal Name:            Biblioteca Nationala a Romaniei, (National Library of Romania)
 Name of Librarian:     Gheorghe-losif Bercan
 Address:                    str Ion Ghica 4, 79708 Bucuresti
 Phone:    (01) 157063;     Fax:    123381

History & Collections

The National Library was founded in 1935 as the Central State Library. It continues the traditions of earlier libraries in Bucharest, but administrative structures changed greatly over time. The collections are encyclopedic in character, and by  the late  1980s they  totaled  more than 15,800,000 volumes.  The  National  Library has  the right of central legal deposit and publishes national current bibliographies and the Narional Bibliogray; makes up the national union catalogue on cards; and
publishes directiones and union catalogues of foreign books and serials, among other activities.

The National Library has a nucleus of documentation in librarianship and a center of methodological guidance for public libraries. It also houses an agency for international exchange of publicacions and manages international interlibrary loans.  It has several reading rooms specialized by fields of knowledge and by categories or publications and media (such as manuscripts and letters, Romanian bibliophilic books, foreign bibliophilic books, maps, loose sheets, and newspapers); there is also a department for official publications and offices for Unesco publications and publications of other international bodies. Educational activities include organizing exthibitions,  meetings with wrirers and scholars, musical programs. and other events.

Sources:

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