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The National Library of Romania is involved in various international projects aiming to create valuable digital content relevant to the European cultural memory. Since 2007, the library is connected in the following projects: TEL plus - set out to strengthen, extend and improve The European Library service by adding digital cultural and scientific/scholarly content and improving access to it, also to sustain Romanian and Bulgarian national libraries (two of the newest Member States), make their content available through The European Library and became full members of The European Library; ENRICH - European Networking Resources and Information concerning Cultural Heritage/Manuscriptorium - project aimed to enhance access to digital image of old documents from different European cultural institutions and to build and deploy virtual research environment for the study of manuscripts, rare and old printed books; REDISCOVER - Reunion of Dispersed Content: Virtual Evaluation and Reconstruction - the main purpose of the project is to gather, virtually reconstruct and make accessible of medieval and renaissance collection dispersed during the late Middle Ages and early modern period, especially in period of Thirty year's war. The project activities take into account: selection according to a series of criteria, digitisation and integration of materials in a digital library performed on Manuscriptorium.com platform. The National Library of Romania is now involved in the international project based on digitisation activities: Balkan Routes. Online digital collections - a project purposing to digitally available a French documentary corpus of rare and precious books from Balkan libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The real integration of the people with disabilities into the educational system and then on the work market can by achieved by facilitating the convenient access to information. This way, the National Library of Romania initiated the project Dream (Digital Resources - easy to access and manage) with the support of the Foundation Orange. In the same time, in December 2012, on the occasion of the International day of the people with disabilities, the National Library of Romania was assigned the „Mark of accessibility” by the Foundation Motivation Romania, after an audit of a mixt team of wheelchair users, experts in accessibility and architects. The National Library provides assistance in the field to the libraries which want to make available collections and services to the people with disabilities. Dream project's results will have an influence upon the social and economic environment as the number of visually impaired pupils and students will increase, as well as the professional integration of the visually disabled people and access to the National Library collection and to specialized databases through the library site; guidance in using new technologies; reduce discrimination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Project Balkan Itineraries. Networked digital collections gathers three libraries from Bulgaria (The Library of the University "St. Kliment Ohridski" in Sofia), Serbia (The Library of the University "Svetozar Markovic" in Belgrad) and Romania (The National Library) around a common target: making available online the digital collection of travel books about Balkans, edited in French. The article represents a short version of the paper "Balkan itineraries" - European project of valorization the Francophone collections from the Balkan area, presented by the author at the 22nd National Conference of the Romanian Library Association. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The National Library provides unlimited access to its collection and specialized high quality services and products; the library answers to the information needs in all fields of research, through its own collection or through the databases to which it provided access. The Collection development department has a very important role in supporting the National Library patrimony function, through current and retrospective purcahse, donations, and documents exchange and transfer. The collection development policy is not a circumstantial activity, but it is the reuslt of some professional requests. In the new building, the National Library of Romania benefits from a larger exposure of the new collection and that means to re-design collection and the steps to obtain proper financial and human resources. Each category of documents in the collection will be evaluated and the result of this eavluation will ensure a new selection, the catalogue up -date and every theme will be subjected to a survey of strength aspects and lacks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The core of the Special Collection in the National Library of Romania includes stocks coming from famous collectors, to which there are to be added representative works for the book and Romanian and world printing history, coming from donations and purchase. ENRICH Project. Manuscriptorium aimed the access to digital images of the old documents from different cultural European institutions. The National Library of Romania also participated to other projects, as follows: REDISCOVER, developed in the framework of the programme of European cooperation Culture Program 2007-2013 and Balkan Itineraries. Virtual digital collection, pilot project developed between 2011 and 2013, which aimed to create a bibliographical database to include rare and valuable books printed between the 16th and the 18th century and signed by French or Francophone authors, diplomats, militaries, explorers and adventurers, books including travel impressions about the Balkan and Oriental countries, especially about the territories populated by Bulgarians, Serbians and Romanians, during the Ottoman domination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The evolution of Romanian university libraries' collections between 1989 and 2009 is studied through corelating and analyzing the variation of statistical indicators regarding the number of university libraries, the number of volumes detained by them, the circulation of documents and the number of registered users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]