NLR Public Catalogues

• Public Classified Catalogue for General Reading Rooms
• Public Classified Catalogue for Research Reading Rooms
• Authors/Titles Catalogue of Books in Russian for Research Reading Rooms
• Authors/Titles Catalogue of Books in Foreign European Languages for Research Reading Rooms

Public Classied Catalogue for General Reading Rooms

Started in 1953. Chronological range: from 1941 to the present. Divided in four parts by fields of knowledge: social and economic sciences; engineering sciences; biomedical sciences; fiction, arts and pedagogy. Using BBK (Library and Bibliographic Classification) tables for research libraries.

Auxiliary resources: name and subject index.

Public Classified Catalogue for Research Reading Rooms

Started in 1956. Chronological range: from 1973. Divided in four parts by fields of knowledge: social and economic sciences; engineering sciences; biomedical sciences; fiction, arts and pedagogy. Using BBK tables for research libraries.

Secondary resource: authors/titles and subject index for social and economic sciences.

Public Alphabetical Authors/Titles Catalogue (PAC) of Books in Russian for Research Reading Rooms

Started in 1931. Chronological range: from 1931 to 2002. Contains bibliographic records for books, periodicals and serials, graphic and cartographic publications, standards and technical documents, pre-1980 author's abstracts of dissertations (from 1981 filed in a separate set). The RAC does not index items in special collections (rare books, newspapers, music, publications in former USSR national languages, and Asian and African languages), books published before 1931, secondary-school textbooks, and books for pre-school and elementary-school children. About 3 mil 646 000 cards.

Public Alphabetical Authors/Titles Catalogue (PAC) of Books in Foreign European Languages for Research Reading Rooms

Started in 1931. Chronological range: from 1501 to the present. Contains bibliographic records for books, periodicals and serials, graphic, standards and technical documents, dissertations. Total 1 mil. 359 000 cards. Filing is alphabetical by personal and corporate body names and titles (through 1988): separate sets for Albanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Lusatian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic and Roman scripts separately), Slovakian, Slovenian, Czech, and a general set for the remaining European languages. Since 1989 in a single common set (with Cyrillic and Roman sub-sets).