List of libraries in Lithuania

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This is a list of libraries in Lithuania.

Libraries by county

Alytus

• Alytus District Municipality Public Library
• Varėna District Municipality Public Library

Kaunas

• Kaunas County Public Library
• Kaunas University of Technology Library
• Library of Jonava
• Lithuanian Sports University Library, Kaunas
• Vytautas Magnus University Library, Kaunas

Klaipėda

• Klaipėda City Municipality Immanuel Kant Public Library
• Klaipėda County Ieva Simonaitytė Public Library
• Klaipeda University Library

Marijampolė

• Marijampolė Petras Kriaučiūnas Public Library
• Šakiai Public Library

Panevėžys

• Panevėžys County Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė Public Library
• Pasvalys Marius Katiliškis Public Library

Šiauliai

• Jonas Avyžius Public Library
• Šiauliai County Povilas Višinskis Public Library

Tauragė

• Jurbarkas District Municipality Public Library
• Šilalė Public Library
• Tauragė District Municipality Birutė Baltrušaitytė Public Library

Telšiai

• Plungė District Municipal Public Library, Telšiai
• Telšiai District Municipality Karolina Praniauskaitė Public Library

Utena

• Utena A. and M. Miškiniai Public Library

Vilnius

• Lithuanian Library for the Blind, Vilnius
• Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
• Vilnius County Adamas Mickevičius Public Library
• Vilnius University Library
• Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences

See also

• History of archives of Lithuania
• Lithuanian literature
• Mass media in Lithuania

in other languages

• Copyright in Lithuania (in Russian)
• Legal deposit in Lithuania (in Lithuanian)
• Lithuanian libraries (in Lithuanian)
• Lithuanian Research Library Consortium (in Lithuanian)

References

This article incorporates information from the Lithuanian Wikipedia.

Further reading

• Renaldas Gudauskas (1994). "Lithuanian Library History". International Information & Library Review. 26. UK.
• Wayne A. Wiegand; Donald G. Davis Jr., eds. (1994). "Former Soviet Republics: the Baltic Republics". Encyclopedia of Library History. New York: Garland. p. 205.
• Edward Kasinec; Robert H. Davis Jr. (2001). "Central and Eastern European Libraries". In David H. Stam (ed.). International Dictionary of Library Histories. Vol. 1. Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 39+. ISBN 1579582443. (includes brief section about Lithuania)
• Laimë Gabrielë Lukošiûnienë (2001). "Art libraries of Lithuania". Art Libraries Journal. 26. UK. doi:10.1017/S0307472200011998.
• Elena Macevičiūtė (2014). "The library sector in Lithuania at the beginning of the twenty-first century". Library Trends. 63. US – via University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
• "Lithuania". World Guide to Libraries 2017. Vol. 1 (32nd ed.). Germany: De Gruyter Saur. 2017. p. 486+. ISBN 9783110517514 – via Internet Archive.
• Elena Macevičiūtė (2017), "Lithuania: Libraries and Librarianship", in John D. McDonald; Michael Levine-Clark (eds.), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, vol. 5 (4th ed.), US: CRC Press, p. 2943+

External links

• "Library Map of the World: Lithuania", ifla.org, Netherlands: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
• Lietuvos kolegijų bibliotekų asociacija (LKBA) [Lithuanian College Libraries Association] (in Lithuanian)
• Lietuvos savivaldybių viešųjų bibliotekų asociacija [Association of Public Libraries of Lithuanian Municipalities] (in Lithuanian)