On December 29, 1998 No. 611-IQ
About library science
This Law determines the basic principles of state policy in the field of library science in the Azerbaijan Republic, basic provisions of library science and library system, the requirement of forming and safety of library stocks, sources of financing of libraries, the rights and obligations of citizens when using of libraries, the principles of international cooperation in the field of library science.
The concepts used in this Law have the following values:
library - the social institute, cultural and educational, scientific, information center collecting and storing works of seal and other data carriers, organizing their system public use, the employee to development of intellectual and moral potential of society;
library science - the field of activity covering as area of scientific, information, cultural, educational and educational activities the organization and development of library system, forming of library stocks, rules of rendering library, information and bibliographic services to legal entities and physical persons, training of librarians-bibliographers, scientific and methodical ensuring development of libraries;
the librarian - the specialist of the corresponding qualification working in the field of library science;
the document - the material object registered in the form of the text, sound recording, the image of information, aiming transfer or preserving information within certain time and space;
library activities - the activities performed for the purpose of providing the right of readers to free receipt of information, satisfaction of their demand for the books, periodicals and other documents constituting fund of library;
centralized library systems - voluntary consolidation in single structure of the libraries relating to identical system;
library stock - set of works of seal and other data carriers created for the purpose of public use according to functions of library.
The legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic in the field of library science consists of this Law, other corresponding legal acts of the Azerbaijan Republic and interstate agreements supported by the Azerbaijan Republic.
In case of contradiction between the interstate agreements supported by the Azerbaijan Republic, and this Law the specified international agreements are applied.
The basic principles of state policy in the field of library science the following:
open entry to use of the cultural values and media which is stored in libraries;
the state care of libraries as about national value, immunity and financing of their funds.
Tasks of the state in the field of library science the following:
preparation and implementation of the state program on development of library science;
acceptance and application of the legal acts regulating library activities; automation of library science and gradual transfer of library stocks into modern data carriers, use of systems of electronic exchange ("Internet", etc.) and reflection of national funds in these systems;
creation of the information system directed to familiarizing with values of national and world cultures;
safety and development of the state library stocks, creation of system of consecutive providing the state libraries with national and foreign literature;
ensuring return to the Azerbaijan Republic the foreign countries and the rare books and manuscripts which are considered as national property which are stored in libraries (if it is not possible, then copies);
construction, capital repairs of buildings of the state libraries, equipment of the state libraries modern equipment and technical means;
rendering assistance to carrying out the scientific research and methodical actions connected with library science;
creation and the organization of activities of the educational institutions preparing library personnel or performing increase in their qualification;
ensuring safety of library stocks during natural disaster, armed conflict and war;
creation of conditions for development of non-state libraries;
determination of state standards of rather library science;
maintaining the statistical recording of library stocks.
The main directions of library activities consist of forming of documentary and information funds, safety and provision of these materials in use to legal entities and physical persons, creations of the common information space allowing to perform exchange of the information funds raised and stored in libraries.
The library system in the Azerbaijan Republic is constituted by the universal, specialized state and non-state libraries which are based on the territorial, departmental, interdepartmental, industry, cross-industry and complex principles of servicing.
The state and non-state libraries are part of library system in the Azerbaijan Republic.
The following belongs to the state libraries:
National library;
State library of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic;
city, district, settlement, rural libraries (mass, scientific, special libraries, youth, children's libraries, libraries for persons with complete violation of sight, etc.) and their branches, centralized library systems;
scientific and industry libraries of republican value;
libraries of public administration, companies and organizations;
Central scientific library of National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan and its branches;
libraries of the state educational institutions.
The following belongs to non-state libraries:
municipal libraries;
libraries of public associations;
private and other libraries;
the libraries founded according to the legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic foreign legal entities and physical persons.
The national library is treasury of national culture and the state keeper of books performing in the Azerbaijan Republic state policy in the field of library science collecting and storing the national editions published in foreign countries of the work about Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijani authors, the edition of world value including valuable and other data carriers in foreign languages.
The national library performs functions of lead agency and the research work coordinator in the field of library science, the bibliography and bibliology, the methodical center for all libraries of the country, rendering to readers complex library and bibliographic information services, the interlibrary subscription, national and referral bibliography, the international and interstate depositary center.
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