Legislative information center (LIC) was established in the NLR in compliance with interdepartmental program "Creation the all-Russian network of public legislative information centers on the base of accessible libraries".
26 October, 1999 LIC started to work.
28 February, 2007 in the New building of NLR was opened a branch of LIC - Economic legislative information center (ELIC).
The main purpose of activity is free access for citizens to legislative information on the base of modern information technologies.
Users are offered the complex information reference and office services including printing and saving on electronic media results of searching.
Development stages
| 1999 October | Opening the Legislative information center Access to legislative data bases: "ConsultantPlus", "Garant", "Codex", "Sistema" |
| 2001 January | Web-page of the Center on the NLR's website |
| 2002 January | Statistics in electronic version |
| 2002 March | Guidebook on legislative resources in the Internet" |
| 2004 April | Daily update of reference and legislative systems |
| 2005 March | Guidebook "Official periodicals" |
| 2006 May | Victory in competition of NLR for the best scientific and theoretical and industrial work in 2006 in nomination "Works assisted in increasing of quality and efficiency of library service" |
| 2006 September | Edition of the Center's booklet |
| 2007 Februar | Opening of "Economic legislative information center" in the New building of NLR |
| 2007 March | "Guidebook on economic resources in the Internet" |
| 2007 March | "Economic periodicals" |
| 2008 Februar | English version of guidebooks |
| 2008 September | A competition between jurists from St-Petersburg and Leningrad area "Pontific-2008" |
| 2009 Februar | New version of LIC's web-page |
| 2009 October | Transregional jurists' competition "Pontific-2009" |
| 2010 November | Transregional jurists' competition "Pontific-2010" |
| 2010 November | Legal advice in the center |

