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Union Catalog
Electronic Union Catalog of 11 Latvian libraries of national significance

Union Catalog is created by National Library of Latvia, Library of the University of Latvia, Scientific Library of the Riga Technical University, Fundamental Library of the Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Library of Riga Stradins University, Library of the Latvian Academy of Culture, Academic library of the University of Latvia, Library of Latvian Maritime academy, Library of "RISEBA" University of Business, Arts and Technology, Library of Riga Graduate School of Law, Library of the Latvian National Art Museum.


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LNL Authoritative database
This database provides possibility to browse and search persons, institutions, geographic names and subjects (or main access points: personal names, corporate bodies, uniform titles, geographic names and subjects including reference and related forms).

UDC
Universal Decimal Classification (UDC)


MeSH
MeSH Library

AGROVOC
This database provides possibility to browse and search terms of the agricultural thesaurus AGROVOC and AGRIS subject categories.


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Jāzepa Vītola Latvian Academy of Music data base

This database contains bibliographic information about music.

Photos
Jāzepa Vītola Latvian Academy of Music photo data base

This database contains music photos.

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Catalog
Electronic Catalog of Library of Latvian Maritime academy is logical part of the Union Catalog




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Catalog
Electronic Catalog of Library of the Latvian Academy of Culture is logical part of the Union Catalog


Degree papers
Database of degree papers of the Latvian Academy of Culture


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All Catalog
Electronic Catalog of Fundamental Library of the LBTU is logical part of the Union Catalog

Staff Publications
Publications of the Academic and Research Staff of the LBTU

Theses
Theses presented at the LBTU (from 1994)

Journal and Conference Articles
Journal and Conference Articles of Latvia University of Life Sciences

Database include journal articles and conference proceedings since 1996.
The records display full-text links since 2005.

Patent Publications
Database of Patent publications of the Academic and Research Staff of the LBTU


Publications of the LLU
Database of Publications of the LBTU (from 1996)


Publications about LLU
Database of Publications about the LBTU


Master Theses
Database of Master Theses of the LBTU (from 2014)




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All Catalog
Electronic Catalog of National Library of Latvia is logical part of the Union Catalog

Database contains the descriptions of all editions held in the Library collection: in Latvian, starting with 1990, in foreign languages - starting with 1996, and since 2000 - in Russian, irrespectively of the year of publication. The catalogue is regularly updated with the descriptions of most frequently demanded publications of the previous years in all languages.


National Bibliography:
Books - information about books published in Latvia since 1525 and received in library until 2017.
Books - books published in Latvia and received in library since 2018.
Serials - information about newspapers, magazines, newsletters, collections of articles, yearbooks published in Latvia since 2000.
Maps - information about maps published in Latvia since 1791.
Printed Music - information about printed music published in Latvia since 1828.
Video Records - information about video records published in Latvia since 1954.
Sound Records - information about sound records published in Latvia since 1934.
Electronic documents - information about documents published in Latvia in CD, DVD formats.
Graphic Editions - information about graphic editions published in Latvia since 1830.
Small Prints - information about small prints published in Latvia since 1784.
E-resources - descriptions of electronic books published in Latvia.
Articles in periodicals - Analytical articles from serial publications published in Latvia (newspapers, magazines, collections of articles), covering the period starting from 1951. Since May 2005 it is possible to link from the database to the full article texts of Latvian newspapers, using Lursoft newspaper library (the service is accessible only to the registered users of the library).
Information about articles from serial editions from 1917, 1918, 1919, 1926, 1937, 1938, 1943, 1944 is also available.
Letica-books to 2012 - descriptions of books published outside Latvia about Latvia and Latvians - since 1940.
Letica-analytic - analytical articles about Latvia and Latvians from editions published outside Latvia, covering the period starting from 1980 (descriptions of newspaper "Laiks" since 1949).

Graphic Editions
Database of Graphic Editions

Database at present provides insight both as bibliographical descriptions and visually into the following collections: Collection of Latvian Posters (1899 - 2005); Collection of Latvian and Foreign Postcards (end of the 19th c. - 1945) ; Collection of Latvian and Foreign Ex-Libris (end of the 19th c. - 2005); Collection of Latvian Prints and Miniature Prints (1866 - 1991)
Collection of Latvian Posters (1899 - 2011)
Collection of Latvian and Foreign Postcards (end of the 19th c. - 1945)
Collection of Latvian and Foreign Ex-Libris (end of the 19th c. - 2011)
Collection of Latvian and Foreign Prints (18th - 2010)

Small Prints
Database contains bibliographical descriptions of the publications held in the Collection of Small Prints from the end of the 18th century to the present.

Rarities
Database contains information about manuscript collections and the description of all newly acquired rarities (manuscripts, graphic publications, maps), starting with January 1, 2002.
Database contains:
Index of Manuscripts' Collections
The Index of Manuscripts' Collections provides information on all the manuscripts' collections and personal archives that are held at the NLL Collection of Rare Books and Manuscripts.

Multidisciplinary database
The database reflects information from books, scientific article collections and encyclopedias in various disciplines: medicine, science, agriculture, technologies, social sciences, humanities and law.
The database covers the origins and history of various objects and phenomena from ancient times to the present day.

Letonica Description Items in Books
Database contains parts of books, chapters, paragraphs, fragments of texts, also pictures and similar. The creation of the database was started in 2004 from the new acquisitions of Letonica.

Index to Printed Music in Collections
Database of music scores included in collections and series. Each individual work is indexed by composer, title and collection. Vocal scores can be searched by the first line of text. Contains records from 2006 onwards, as well as the most sought-after collections.

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Catalog
Electronic catalog of the Library of the Latvian National Museum of Art is a logical part of the Union Catalog.


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Catalog
Electronic catalog of the Academic Library of the University of Latvia is a logical part of the Union Catalog.

Bibliographic database of the documents available at the Academic Library of the University of Latvia (ALUL). Since 2010, all the publications acquired in Latvian and foreign languages are available via electronic catalog. The catalog is regularly supplemented with bibliographic descriptions of recent and earlier publications. The catalog holds descriptions of books, serials, dissertations, thesis, maps, sheet music, audio-visual materials, digital materials, et al.
Bibliographic descriptions of documets acquired between 1993 and 2009, stored at the Library, are available via Library in-house catalog www.acadlib.lu.lv.

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Catalog
Electronic Catalog of Library of the University of Latvia is logical part of the Union Catalog

The Catalog contains the information about most frequently demanded documents from the collection of the University Library, starting from 1990 and earlier acquired documents. The database includes bibliographic information about books, serials, theses, abstracts, maps, audio-video documents, electronic documents, etc.

Staff's Publications
Publications and History of the University of Latvia

The database aggregates bibliographic records of UL teaching staff and researchersÂ’ publications - monographs, articles, conference proceedings and other publications, as well as bibliographic records of material about the history of University of Latvia.

Dissertations/theses
Dissertations/theses elaborated or defended at University of Latvia

The database includes bibliographic information about doctoral thesis, dissertations, sets of scientific papers, summaries and abstracts of dissertations elaborated or defended at UL. For thesis defended after 2006, the full text is freely available online.

Graduation papers
Graduation papers of the University of Latvia

The database contains information about master, bachelor, graduation and qualification papers, defended by UL students from 2003 to 2014 (more recent works are available in the E-resource repository of UL). If the paper is accepted by the author for publication, its bibliographic record is linked to the full-text online version. It is available by authorization with LUIS username and password.

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Catalog
Catalog of the Riga Graduate School of Law (RGSL) Library is a logical part of the Union Catalog

Database contains the descriptions of all editions held in the Library collection of the Riga Graduate School of Law (RGSL) - books, serials and electronic documents.

Legal articles
RGSL Articles from legal journals

Database consists of the articles from Latvian and foreign law journals, books and collections of articles on legal and related subjects. Database includes publications starting from 1995.

RGSL Theses
Database contains bibliographic descriptions of the master theses defended at the Riga Graduate School of Law since 2000. Access to the electronic version of the publications is granted to the authorized users of the RGSL network only. Besides that the database includes bibliographic descriptions of dissertations/promotion works and summaries of dissertations.

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Catalog
Electronic Catalog of "RISEBA" University of Business, Arts and Technology library is logical part of the Union Catalog

Database contains descriptions of books, serials and audio-video documents.

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Catalog
Electronic Catalog of Library of Riga Stradins University is logical part of the Union Catalog

Staff Publications
Staff Publications database of Riga Stradins University

Degree Papers
Database of degree papers of Riga Stradins University

Database of medicine analytics
Database of medicine and health care analytics

Database contains bibliographic description of analytical articles on health care, medicine and related sciences from various reference publications, monographs and serials (newspapers, magazines, research papers, proceedings of conferences). Currently the database includes analytical records since 2009 till nowadays and has been updated regularly.

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Catalog
Electronic Catalog of Scientific Library of the Riga Technical University is logical part of the Union Catalog

Publications
Staff Publications database of Scientific Library of the Riga Technical University

Architecture and Civil Engineering
The database comprises information on civil engineering and architecture publications from journals and collections of articles. The full texts of the publications are available at the Civil Engineering and Architecture branch of RTU Scientific Library.

Database of Electronic Resources
The creation of the database was started in 2011. It contains electronic resources for each field of study at RTU.
Electronic resources are available on the World Wide Web but subscribed resources – online on RTU website and portal ORTUS.
Users are encouraged to add their keywords to the records (standard form) thus extending the range of information searching options.
To ensure accessibility of the most recent and the most useful resources in each field of the study the Scientific Library of the Riga Technical University welcomes recommendations about the most significant electronic resources to be inserted in its database.

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