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Mission

2012-07-25

The Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania is a national cultural institution which collects, organizes and preserves Lithuania’s written cultural heritage content, develops the collection of Lithuanian and foreign documents relevant to research, educational and cultural needs of Lithuania, and provides library information services to the public.

The mission of the National Library is to ensure satisfaction of the Lithuanian knowledge society’s needs for documentary and digital information.

The National Library goals are accumulation and preservation of the Lithuanian documentary cultural heritage for future generations and ensuring its access, active participation in the knowledge society creation process, development of its activities and services using modern information technologies with the purpose to assist learning and individual development processes of Lithuanian people, providing methodological support for Lithuanian libraries, carrying out research in library science, evolving library science theory and practice and strengthening the dynamics of integration into the global library science processes.

Functions and responsibilities of the National Library:

  • Accumulation and preservation of Lithuanian publications issued in Lithuania and abroad, carrying out of the bibliographic control of documents, development of the National Archival Fund of Published Documents.
  • Accumulation and storage of other documents, both printed and in other forms, which are valuable for the national culture.
  • Providing services for Lithuanian and foreign citizens, institutions and organizations.
  • Compilation and publishing of the national bibliography, the bibliographical indexes, compilation of union catalogues and databases.
  • Provisions of statistics on documents published in Lithuania and assignment of international standard numbers to them (ISSN, ISBN, ISMN).
  • Performing of the functions of the National Digitization Centre and creation of the Virtual Electronic Heritage System (VEPS).
  • Creation and development of the Lithuanian Integrated Library Information System (LIBIS).
  • Storage of depository collections of the European Union, the World Bank and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
  • Preservation, restoration and microfilming of library holdings and valuable collections.
  • Research in library science, bibliography and book science, organization of scientific conferences, issuance of research and methodological publications and the professional magazine "Tarp knygų" (In the World of Books).
  • Implementation of national, regional and international strategic projects.
  • Organization of exhibitions, literary evenings and other cultural events, promotion of Lithuanian culture and science abroad.

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