| These sites provide information, links, and online catalogs relating to libraries and archives, including electronic libraries and the history of the book. Also described are general bibliographic databases which are freely available over the Internet. For information about and links to all the national libraries of Europe, visit The European Library site. The Library of Congress' catalog may be consulted at http://catalog.loc.gov. Index to this page: Descriptions of Moldovan Collections outside Moldova Electronic Libraries History of the Book Archives
Biblioteca Academiei de Studii Economice din Moldova (http://lib.ase.md)
Library of the Academy of Economic Studies, located in Chişinău. Information on its history, structure, services, and publications. Provides an online catalog searchable over the Internet. In Romanian.
Biblioteca Municipală "B.P. Hasdeu" (http://www.hasdeu.md)
Chişinău Municipal Library "B.P. Hasdeu." Information on its administration, staff, departments, and branches. Provides an online catalog of recent acquisitions and a database of periodical articles. In Romanian.
Biblioteca Natională a Republicii Moldova (BNRM) (http://www.bnrm.md)
The National Library of Moldova, located in Chişinău. Information on BNRM history, administration, contacts, collections, services, and publications. As of January 2006, the online catalog contained records for over 140,000 books, 7,500 serials, and 21,500 articles from Moldovan periodicals, as well as 1,600 audio-visual materials. In Romanian.
Biblioteca Republicană de Informatie Tehnico-Ştiinţifică (http://www.iatp.md/brit/)
The National Science and Technology Library, located in Chişinău. Information on its history, administration, contacts, collections, services, and publications. The online catalog for the library's general collections (FOND) contained over 20,000 records as of October 1999. This catalog contains more than just scientific/technological works, and it may be searched via the Internet. Two other databases are only available for use within the library: 1) the DAAR database provides a bibliographic index to over 12,000 articles on economic issues published from 1993 to present; 2) the DOCO database indexes documents which have appeared in the official gazette, Monitorul Oficial al Republicii Moldova. In Romanian.
Camera Nationala a Cărtii din Republica
Moldova (http://www.iatp.md/cnc/)
Moldova's National Book Chamber compiles national bibliographies, preserves materials, and provides ISBN and ISSN for the entire country. In Romanian.
U.S. Library of Congress.
European Reading Room. Overview of the Collections: Moldovan Collections
at the Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/coll/mold.html)
Description of the Library's holdings of volumes from, or about, Moldova. By Grant Harris.
Other Western libraries with important Moldovan collections include Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), Bayerische
Staatsbibliothek (Munich), New York Public
Library, Hoover Institution (Stanford), and the university libraries of UC
Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Washington, and Yale.
Few e-books and other digital materials focus on Moldova. Researchers interested in e-texts relating to Romanian culture may wish to consult Libraries,
Archives: Electronic Libraries: Romania.
Book History Online (BHO) (http://www.kb.nl/bho/)
The National Library of the Netherlands has published since 1970 the Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries (also known as 'International' Bibliography rather than 'Annual' Bibliography). Editors from more than 30 countries contribute citations to scholarly articles, monographs, and other works. The database version, Book History Online, consists of over 33,000 citations from the annual's 1990 edition to the present. Search on Moldova by truncating as: moldo* and using the 'Any word' button and Moldova. Researchers may wish to consult the earlier annual volumes (1970-1989), which are available only in print.
Carte veche (http://www.cimec.ro/carte/cartev/carte.htm)
The Institute for Cultural Memory (Bucharest) provides a catalog of Romanian books published in the 16th and 17th centuries, and a brief history about early printing. Includes books printed in present-day Moldova. Mostly in Romanian, partially in English.
U.S. Library of Congress.
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) (http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/)
The NUCMC Web site, maintained by the Library of Congress, provides information on its program and links to the Archival and Mixed Collections of the RLG Union Catalog and to OCLC MSS Records. Both the RLG and OCLC mss catalogs include records pertaining to Moldova. Each of these two mss union catalogs contains records not found in the other.
U.S. National Archives (http://www.archives.gov)
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration has recorded only selected materials in the ARC databases. The archival holdings database does contain, however, several references to Moldova under keywords Moldova, Moldovan, Moldavia, Kishinev, Bessarabia, etc. Most of these pertain to the 1940s and WWII. The ARC databases represent only a fraction of the National Archive's holdings.
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