The National Library of Romania and its Users. An Approach to the Influence of the New Building on the Information Access

Abstract

The role of a national library in society is to capitalize and to preserve the national intellectual heritage by organizing it, processing it, ensuring the access and availability of all media. The mission, functions and the specific prerogatives of the National Library of Romania (NLR) determine special types of users. A specific category of users are businesses coming from the publishing and media sector, or public from education or research areas. Another category of users are the libraries and the librarians from the National System of Libraries. The National Library of Romania acts as an encyclopedic library, thus individual users are an extremely heterogeneous group and come from various categories, environments and ages.