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Latvian printed national bibliography in general has one unique feature - it covers the whole period of time since the first book in Latvian was published in 1525 till the present time. Another unique characteristic of the Latvian national bibliography is that the indexes of analytical records of all available periodicals beginning from the middle of the 18th century. The Bibliograpy Institute of the National Library of Latvia is the centre of the national bibliography in Latvia. It prepares the printed edition of the monthly Latvian Press Chronicle (Latvijas Preses Hronika), maintains and updates national bibliography databases (started in 1996, at present they cover about 600 000 records in MARC format). The Bibliography Institute cooperates with libraries of the regions, districts, rural districts and other institutions in Latvia. The project conversion-1: the retrospective conversion of the Latvian National Bibliography was started in 2000 by the Bibliography Institute of the National Library of Latvia. It envisages the design of a unique national culture database (the middle of the 18th century - the year 200) converting the printed indexes into Marc format (~136 000 text pages).

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