National Library of Estonia
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| Country | Estonia |
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| Type | Public, National, Research, Parliamentary library |
| Established | 1918 |
| Location | Tõnismägi 2, 15189 Tallinn |
| Coordinates | 59°25′49″N 24°44′20″E / 59.43028°N 24.73889°ECoordinates: 59°25′49″N 24°44′20″E / 59.43028°N 24.73889°E |
| Collection | |
| Size | 3.4 million items (2007) |
| Legal deposit | Yes, since 1919 |
| Access and use | |
| Access requirements | Open to anyone of 16 years or older, parent's permission is necessary if younger |
| Other information | |
| Budget | 5.6 million Euro |
| Director | Ms. Janne Andresoo |
| Staff | 314 |
| Website | http://www.nlib.ee/ |
The National Library of Estonia (in Estonian: Eesti Rahvusraamatukogu) is a national public institution in Estonia, which operates pursuant to the National Library of Estonia Act. It was established as the parliamentary library of Estonia on December 21, 1918.
According to the Act, the National Library of Estonia is the custodian of Estonian national memory and heritage, and acts as the repository centre of the Estonian literature and national bibliography, the main information provider for the Estonian parliament and many other constitutional institutions, a national centre of library and information sciences, a site for the continuing education of librarians, and also as a cultural centre.
Since September 16, 2008 the Director General of the National Library is Ms. Janne Andresoo.
The National Library of Estonia is:
The National Library of Estonia provides information services in the following fields:
Rare book collection specialists offer consultations on old books. There are also archival services on the basis of the institution and personal collections located in the Library, conservation services and binding services available.
E-library has been developed since the mid-1990s and is available on the homepage of the National Library of Estonia. It enables readers to:
Some services are available only to the registered readers of the National Library. They can:
On January 1, 2007 the collection of the National Library of Estonia included 3,4 million items including:
Since 1919 the National Library is entitled to receive legal deposit copies of all publications printed in Estonia.
Publications in the Estonian language printed before 1861 and publications in foreign languages printed before 1831, including eight incunabula and 1,500 publications from the 16th and 17th centuries, are stored in the Rare Book Collection. Later publications include a selection of copies with autographs, manuscript amendments and ownership marks, censor’s copies, artistic bindings, bibliophile and luxury publications. In addition to 28,000 rare publications, the collection includes 150 manuscripts. Research on old books has been conducted in the library for over 50 years.
The oldest book in the rare book collection is a work of Lambertus de Monte, a theologian from Cologne, - Copulatasuper tres libros Aristotelis De Anima... (Cologne, 1486). The oldest Estonian publication is Heinrich Stahl's book of sermons Leyen Spiegel (Reval, 1641–1649) with parallel texts in Estonian and in German.
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