Main Activities

  • Implementation of the National Programme of Information Technologies Application in the Slovak Republic, especially through a common support to international programmes aimed at librarianship, bibliography, and information management, and at the application of international standards. Emphasize is put on IFLA Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC Core Programme (UBCIM), IFLA Core Programme for Preservation and Conservation (PAC), Universal Access to Documents, and Support to Electronic Transport of Data Between Libraries and Users (UDI Project)
  • Coordination of the library conceptual solution and activity  programmes, as well as particular fields of library and information activities, paricularly documents acquisition and control, unification and standardization of  the documents cataloguing and creating information databases, based on the international formats, implementation and optimizing of new library and information technologies
  • Creating union catalogues, based on the cooperative cataloguing
  • Retrospective conversion of  catalogues and bibliographic data to a machine readable form, inclusive of  creating and accessing the electronic catalogue and the general bibliographic database of the documents of the Slovak origin, in the Slovak language or about the Slovak Republic
  • Arranging the technical connection of the central produced databases via public data network or interactive e-mail
  • Cooperation in information resources acquisition, especially scientific and technical literature
  • Profiling editorial activities and development of commercial activities of the Association member libraries
  • Advances in the cooperation between SLA and other non-member libraries and information institutions in the Slovak Republic and abroad
  • Coordination of the international organization membership
  • Organizing workshops, conferences, fellowships, and other activities