Project Goals and Tasks of the Project







Immediate goals: 
  • To gather bibliographic resources created by libraries, information centers and other institutions in printed, card file or electronic form;
  • To create a database which summarizes information about the bibliographic resources created by libraries, information centers and other institutions;
  • To provide public and free access in the Internet both to the database and the remote online bibliographic information sources registered in it.
Future goals:
  • To promote the development of all branches of Latvian culture, education and economics, providing them with the necessary information, stored in all Latvian libraries, information centers and other institutions;
  • To provide public access to the resources of bibliographic information, gathered as the result of the project, to any patron;
  • To update the database created as the result of the project, by supplementing information about new bibliographic resources, as well as carrying out retrospective input of data about the printed bibliographic indexes, published before restoring Independence;
  • To publish an index of bibliographic information resources for wide public use in Latvia;
  • To publish the database of bibliographic information resources in the format of CD-ROM.


Tasks of the Project

  • To carry out a survey, in order to investigate the resources of bibliographic resources created by Latvian libraries, information centers and other institutions;
  • To gather the results of the survey about the resources of the bibliographic information;
  • To create a database of the bibliographic information resources with public access on the Internet. Any remote patron must be provided with free public access to the database on the WWW.
  • To organize a competition and to evaluate the printed bibliographic indexes and databases, compiled by libraries, information centers and other institutions. 

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