VIAF Information Sheet

NAME:

In the national language(s) and script: Slovenská národná knižnica 

In English: Slovak national library 

PICTURE:

LOCATION/ADDRESS:  Námestie J.C. Hronského 1,  036 01  Martin 

WEB SITE: www.snk.sk  

CONTACT:

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE INSTITUTION:

 The Slovak National Library is a modern institution that serves all citizens of Slovakia and users from abroad. Preferentially collects indigenous and foreign Slovakicist documents, submits them to expert processing, maintains and protects them, and provides for their accessibility. It protects publications from Slovakia or publications in Slovak language from ancient times, documents of Slovak writers and documents related to Slovakia and Slovaks as completely as possible. Its collection includes over 5 million volumes and yearly it acquires about 27 thousand of new titles. It provides services especially to university or college students, teachers, academics, scientist, and scholars. Each year, more than 140 thousand documents are lent. Its workplaces are the Literary Museum of the SNL, the Slavic Museum of A. S. Pushkin in Brodzany, the Library of the Apponyi genus in Oponice. The Slovak National Library implemented (2012 - 2015) the national project Digital Library and Digital Archive (DIKDA), which aimed to digitise more than 2.5 million cultural objects from the Slavic conservation fund of the SNL and from collections of the Slovak National Archive.

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE AUTHORITY DATA

 authorities web site: autority.snk.sk

DATA PROVIDED TO VIAF AND NUMBER OF RECORDS

 Number of records: 50341

Persons: 22163

Corporate bodies: 13721

Meetings:7017

Geographic: 7440