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Departments Automation and Information Technologies Department has been functioning since 1999. Department manages automated library system IRBIS, Library electronic catalogue and full-text databases, assists libraries and other institutions in databases creation. Services : Access to electronic catalogues and databases of the Library and online resources is free of charge. Paid services: ·scanning ·text recognition ·special...

Departments Collection of Depositary Storage Department includes over 260,000 volumes. The books from personal collections of famous bibliographers and collectors, such as A. Geyns, N. Petrovsky, P. Khomutov, V. Mezhov, Grand Duke N.K. Romanov are the “heart” of the Department collection. Services : Traditional library services are free of charge. Working hours : Mon – Fri: 9 00 – 18 00 Contacts : Kh....

Departments Book Depository Department keeps, manages and uses main collection of the National Library of Uzbekistan and functions as national book depository.In the beginning Department collection mainly included books and periodicals of West European countries and donation issues. Since 1920 the Library had been received legal deposit copies of all republican publications. Book Depository Department collection consists of books, serial issues, abstracts of theses. ...

Departments Acquisitions Department was established in 1933. Main functions: - acquisitions with printed and non-printed materials published in Uzbekistan, CIS and foreign countries; - development of Duplicate Collection; - organization of international exchange; - monitoring of collections circulation. Services : Reference services about received items are free of charge. ...

Departments Interlibrary Loan Department was established in 1975. The Department loans items to collective clients from Uzbekistan and abroad, including CIS and IFLA members. The Department serves personal abonnement and Library staff as well. Services: Services Order for receipt of copies from Library collections is paid service. Methods of payment: - bank transfer; - cash; - IFLA vouchers. Bank account: Р/с № 20203000700101015122 Branch of...

Departments Youth Center was established in the Library in 1975. The Center is the multifunctional department of the National Library, intended for service of teen-aged people. Main functions: - interactive services (quiz, trainings etc.); - library tours; - lending of books and periodicals; - service of different groups of users; - reference services on e-catalogue; - informing people of Center activity via mass-media. Services: Traditional library services...

Departments The Scientific-Methodic Department was established in 1955. It is the methodic centre of the information-library and information-resource centres (ILC, IRC) and libraries. The Department develops regulating documents, references, methodic-bibliographic brochures in all directions of libraries activity. Department publishes 18-20 brochures devoted to anniversaries and memorable dates of republic annually. Services: All services are free of charge....

Departments Normative-Technical Information Department with industrial catalogues division was affiliated with Uzbek Scientific Research Institute of Scientific-and-Technical Information in 1968. In 1992 Standards and Industrial Catalogues Department was affiliated with Republican Scientific-Technical Library. In 2002 in consequence of State Library and Republican Scientific-Technical Library integration the Department became a division of the National Library of Uzbekistan....

Departments National Bibliography Department was created in 1965. Up to 1982 it had functioned both as Reference-Bibliography Department and National Bibliography Department. Since 1982, after creation of Reference Department, National Bibliography Department has been engaged in local bibliographical work. The Department is the center of republican libraries local studies work. Main functions: - forming the card-catalogues by journals and newspapers articles; - drawing up...

Departments Scientific and Cultural Research Department was established in 1977. Main functions of the Department are: forming the card-catalogue by newspapers and journals articles on science and culture, drawing up source book “Uzbek Cultural Life Prospect”. Services: Traditional library services are free of charge. Resources: The card-catalogue of sheet music and phonorecords is available in the Department. Working hours:...

Scientific and Marketing Research Department was established in 1975 as Scientific Research Department which was renamed as Scientific and Marketing Research Department in 2002. The Department coordinates marketing and research work in large libraries and in information-resource and information-library centers of Uzbekistan for implementation of modern methods of organization and information services for users, participates in working out and realization of republican research projects in...

Departments The detailed inventory which began to be called as "catalogue" was created in 1870. Library collection had been rising every year. Two catalogues, both alphabetical and systematic, were created in 1921 in the Library. The systematic one was compiled in accordance with Universal Decimal Classification. The catalogues included up to 600,000 cards. As a result Catalogues Department was organized by the end of 1921. Main functions: - cataloguing of issues in...

Departments Foreign Literature and International Relations Department was established in 1955. Collection of foreign literature has started to be formed from the library opening day and now includes more than 350 thousand issues in more than 70 world languages. International book-exchange plays a large role in foreign literature acquisitions. The National Library cooperates with foreign countries since 1956. Library partners are national libraries from 13 countries, as well as 24...

Departments Readers Service Department was established in 1933. In 1935 Book Depository and Readers Service Departments were integrated to Readers Service and Collections Department. Three-storey Library building was opened in 1948 timed to 500th anniversary of Alisher Navoi. Public reading room and scientific room were opened there. Department has subsidiary collection of 57,000 books and 10,000 theses as well as around 70 titles of local periodicals. There are 3 reading rooms,...

Departments Periodicals Department was established in 2002, separated from Book Depository Department. Department collection includes over 2,5 journals and 20,000 newspaper filings. Department receives local republican and regional periodicals in Uzbek, Russian, Tajik, Kazakh, Karakalpak languages as well as Russian periodicals. Working hours: Mon – Fri: 9 00 – 20 00 Sat – Sun: 9 00 – 17 00 Contacts: M. Akramova, Head of...

Departments The collection of Rare Editions and Manuscripts includes more than 15500 issues. There are masterpieces of East European and Old Russian printing, editions of XVI-XIX centuries, first and following lithographies of Turkestan, Eastern and European manuscripts. The collection has been completing since 1918. Famous scientist, orientalist and librarian E.K. Betger (1887-1956) contributed to creation of rare issues collection, by his initiative subdivision of rare and antique...

Departments Reference Department of the National Library of Uzbekistan was established in 1982. Department provides library users, organizations and institutions of Uzbekistan with information services. Main functions: - maintenance of bibliographic inquiries; - compiling of “New Literature Catalogue” (in Uzbek and Russian); - references, drawing up of bibliographies to scientific works (theses etc.). Services: Paid services: - thematic...

Departments Techniques Department was established in 1924. The main type of Department activity is publishing. Services: Paid services: publishing. Working hours: Mon – Fri: 9 00 – 18 00 Contacts: Farukh Musaev, Head of Department. Tel.: +99871 2336918. Address: Istiqlol str., 33. Departments

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