Dr Eva Augustínová
Dušan Kuzma a Anton Cimmerman
2000
The Slovak National Library is a modern institution that serves all citizens of Slovakia and users from abroad. Preferentially it collects indigenous and foreign Slovakicist documents, submits them to expert processing, maintains and protects them, as well as, provides for their accessibility. It protects publications from Slovakia or publications in the Slovak language from ancient times, documents of Slovak writers, including documents related to Slovakia.
It’s collection includes over 5 million volumes. It provides services especially to university or college students, teachers, academics, scientist, and scholars. Its workplaces are The Literary Museum of the SNL, The Slavic Museum of A. S. Pushkin in Brodzany and historical Apponyi Library in Oponice. The Slovak National Library implemented (2012 – 2015) a national project Digital Library and Digital Archive (DIKDA), which aimed to digitise more than 2.5 million cultural objects from the Slavic conservation fund of the SNL and from collections of the Slovak National Archive.
The collections of the Slovak National Library span more than a thousand years of the history of written and book culture in Central Europe.
Among the oldest documents is an 11th-century musical fragment that survived only because it was used as the cover of a later printed book. A unique collection of approximately 800 incunabula documents the beginnings of book printing in Europe. Extensive collections of more than 5 million books, journals, photographs, and manuscripts in dozens of languages allow visitors to trace the development of written culture across the centuries.
