Database on Legislation Relating to National Libraries throughout the World

Unesco Btilletiti for Libraries. 31 (1): 6-25 (1977)

Ibid. p. 15.

Surrey of National Libraries. Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1982, 25 p.

The term "database", understood as a datafile stored in a computer system, is used rather freely in relation to the information file accumulated in the Lenin State Library because, due to the small volume of data, up until 1989 the work was carried out in the traditional way. As of 1990, a stcp-by-stcp transition to automation began.

UNISIST Newsletter, 17 (3-4): 65 (1987); IFLA Journal, 15 (3): 270 (1989); Newsletter of the IFLA Section of National Libraries 1 (1): 7 (1988); 2(1): 2 (1989); 2 (2): 2-4 (1989).

By a document we understand the text of a law in the original language or in translation as well as an item of reference. Each document is recorded as a separate item; for example, a law on national libraries in English and the Russian translation thereof arc registered as two documents.

Bagrova, I.Y. "The Legislative Bases of the National Library Activities in the Socialist Countries". Librarianship and Bibliography Abroad 105: 14-37 (1985). Bagrova I.Y. "National Libraries in Developing Countries"; Librarianship and Bibliography Abroad 111: 3-17 (1987).

Unesco Statistical Yoarbook 1989, Paris: Unesco 1989.

Sylvestre, G. Guidelines for National Libraries. Paris: Unesco, 1987, p. 79.