General Information
a name and address
- 1
Type of library
- national
- 2
Name of library / Name of mother institution
-
National Library of Latvia
/ Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia
- 3
Address
- 3 Mukusalas St., Riga, Latvia LV-1048
- 4
Phone / Fax / Email
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+371 67365250
lnb@lnb.lv
- 5
Name of the director of the library
- Andris Vilks
- 6
Contact person for enquiries
-
Nita Apsite
b population served
- 7
Current readership, number of registered readers
- 100200
- 8
Number of full time students
- 9
Number of part time students
- 10
Number of staff in institution
c the old/original building(s)
- 11
Total floor area
- 16749 sq. metres
- 12
Number of reader seats
- 260
- 13
Total capacity of shelving
- 2822330 volumes [2.8 million vol. books/periodicals, 1.3 million other (2012). Located in 6 buildings, exhausted shelving space in several departments.]
- 14
…in open access storage
- 1145 linear metres
- 15
…in closed access stacks
- 16
Number of library staff
- 254
- 17
Opening hours to the public
- 39 hours/week; 250 days/year
