The Pencho Slaveykov Public Library in Varna
Public Library Pencho Slavejkov
34, Slivnitsa blvd., BG-9000 Varna
Bulgaria
Emilia Staneva-Milkova, Director
tel./fax + 359 52/ 22 33 51
email: office@libvar.bg
www.libvar.bg
Contact persons:
Galina Dimitrova - Head of Reference and Information Services Dept.
email: gala libvar.bg
Daniela Kaneva - Inrerlibrary Loan Section
emaill: kaneva@libvar.bgThe Pencho Slaveykov public library in Varna was founded in 1883 by the Varna Literary Society thanks to the generosity of prominent public men and patriots from Varna. The library has been a depository of the Bulgarian national literature since 1945. Today the"Pencho Slaveykov" library is a public institution supported by the municipality and is a regional library and methodological center.
The Pencho Slaveykov Public library is a member of the Bulgarian Regional Libraries' Association; union of librarians and information services officers; union and a partner in various programs of European nongovernmental cultural institutions as the British Council, the Goethe Institute, the Alliance Francaise etc. In its unique collections the library keeps the national printed output; investigates and preserves the literary and intellectual heritage of the historical and cultural development of the Varna region.
The users of our universal and research library are represented by all the fields of science and practice: scientific workers, specialists, students, etc. The Pencho Slaveykov Public Library keeps and offers for use books and periodicals (the entire output of the Bulgarian publishers after 1945 and of foreign publishers, too), manuscripts and archival documents, albums, cartographic publications, official documents, standards, music sheets, records, audio and video cassettes, CDs, and microphotographs deposited, bought or donated.
In 1998 the library possessed 800,000 volumes of books, periodicals and others in its structural departments. The library is the most accessible to the public institute in the territory of Varna. There were 180,000 visits to the library last year, with 340,483 volumes lent to readers. Fifty specialists in a variety of fields work in the library.
Processing of books and documents and some of the readers' services has been computerized since 1990. The library provides both traditional and computer catalogs of books in Bulgarian and in foreign languages; periodicals publications; reference information; information about Varna and its region; rare books and books of true merit; Internet and e-mail services. The library has published over 200 bibliographies and references. The Pencho Slaveykov Public Library became the Varna Prize winner for 1997 - "For activities in publishing and popularizing the culture and history of Varna."
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