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Visitors will form their first impressions of the library when they open the doors of the main entrance and enter the first floor, where they’ll find a conference room and concert hall, the Museum of Latvian Printing, exhibition rooms, an Internet café, the library’s gift shop, cafeterias, and a coat check. But the library will “begin” on the Mezzanine, where visitors will have access to the Reference and information center, The Reference and information center’s reading room, and The New periodicals reading room.
At the reference and information center, readers will have the opportunity to do the following:
- consult with a librarian,
- work at computerized workstations,
- copy and print information,
- work at individually lit reading desks that include outlets for laptop,
- use the Latvian periodicals archive,
- find law publications,
- work with the library’s systematic catalogue,
- enjoy the soft furniture in the work and relaxation area.
The reference and information center is accessible to people with special needs and the hearing and visually impaired. A separate room is intended for group activities.
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The reading room will feature twenty traditionally equipped reading desks – tables for one or two readers, with individual lighting, that may be arranged to form a round-table reading room. Laptops may be plugged in at every reading desk.
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The new periodicals reading room will ensure the availability of current information. In the reading room, users will have the chance to do the following:
- find comprehensive information in a collection of periodicals published in Latvia and abroad, which will include magazines published in the last three years and newspapers published in the last year and a half;
- consult about matters related to the newest periodicals;
- use the electronic catalogue;
- use licensed databases maintained in Latvia and abroad;
- work with databases of full-text periodicals in a variety of scientific fields.
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