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LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN

of August 1, 2003 No. 32

About library activities

(as amended on 05-03-2019)

This Law governs the public relations connected with protection, use, search, receipt of information and open entry to scientific and technical achievements, world and national culture in the field of library activities.

Chapter 1. General provisions

Article 1. Basic concepts

In this Law the following concepts are applied:

- library - the information, cultural, educational institution having organized fund of documents and providing them in temporary use to users, and also performing other library services;

- public library - library which gives opportunity of use of library stock and services to citizens and legal entities irrespective of their forms of business and patterns of ownership;

- library activities to add industry of information, welfare and educational activities which tasks enter creation and development of network of libraries, forming and processing of their funds, the organization of library, information and help and bibliographic servicing of users of libraries with words preparation, retraining and advanced training of workers of the library sphere, scientific and methodical ensuring development of libraries;

- the document - material object in which information is fixed in the form of the text, sound recording or the image, and is intended for transfer in time and space for the purpose of storage and public use;

- obligatory copy of documents - the copies of different types of documents which are subject to transfer by developers to the relevant organizations and other organizations in the quantity established by the legislation;

- the user of library - the physical person or legal entity using services of library;

- centralized library system - merging of libraries in the structural and complete education functioning on the basis of the general fund, organizational and technological unity;

- founder of library state bodies, legal entities and physical persons;

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