Planning library buildings in Albania Available to Purchase

Aims to provide an outline of the history of the library buildings in Albania, from their establishment up to the present. Provides summarized information on buildings used by the university libraries,academic libraries, public libraries, the National Library, etc. Describes storage rooms and book‐preserving conditions in them as well as the capacities of reading rooms and the working conditions for users and library staff. Almost all Albanian libraries operate closed‐access systems but over the last two years a tendency to operate open‐access reading rooms has appeared. Today Albanian libraries have to face several difficulties related to the economic problems the country is going through. Points to some possibilities for improving library buildings.