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9th CDNLAO Meeting: Thailand Country Report

Update on the National Library of Thailand

Mrs Suwakhon Siriwongworawat, Director

Library Administration

(1) Library Organisational Structure

  Library Councils/Associations/Foundations 1
  Public Libraries 850
  Academic Libraries 99
  Special/private Libraries 147

Selection Profile

Infrastructure

Services

Training

Copyright

Institutional Survey

General Information

  Year founded 1905
  Parent Body Fines Arts Dept. Ministry of Education
  Mission statement To collect and preserve library resources in Thailand
  History of Library Established by King Chulalongkorn of Siam since Oct. 12
  Opening hours 9.00am - 7.30pm - Mondays - Sundays
Public Holidays - Closed

Staffing

  Officer-in-Charge Mrs Suwakhon Siriwongworawat
  Designation Director
  Email Address suwakir@emisc.moe.go.th
  Key Officers Mrs Siriporn Chiruppa
  Staff profile 80 qualified librarians
  45 graduates without library qualifications
  76 para-professionals
  117 support staff

Users and Facilities

  Users Open to: Public/Private/Organisations
  Facilities for Public Use Seating capacity - 1,500
  Discussion rooms - 2
  Multimedia Rooms - 1
  OPAC terminals - 16
  Training Rooms - 2
  Multimedia/Internet/AV Stations/Highband with stations - 8
  Photocopiers, Colour photocopiers, microfilm readers, printers/scanners - 56
  Microfilm Readers - 11

Library Services

  Inter-library loans Available to local and overseas libraries
  Document Delivery Public/Organisations/Private Individuals
  Local/Overseas
  Delivery Channels (Email/Fax/Mail)
  Charges:
Postage fee: Postage $20 for 1st 10 pages and $25 for subsequent 10 pages
  Routine library programmes Literacy programs
  Exhibitions
  Electronic databases and Online searching End user searching available for databases such as:
LLSA, ERIC, MULTIMEDIA CD-ROM
  In-house produced indexes Newspapers and periodicals indexes
Book indexes
  Co-operative Online Projects THAI NATIS
  Other Information Services ISSN, ISBN
  Subject Coverage All subjects
  Collection strength Rare books, Manuscripts, Humanities Collections
  Classification system used Dewey Decimal Classification
  Information on databases Total no. of records - 208,003
  Collection statistics Books (vols) - 2,779,223
Books (titles) - 344,922
Serials (titles) - 5,562
Serials (vols) - 70,548
CD-ROMs databases - 400
AV materials (titles) - 700,318
Microforms (titles) - 6,656
Microfilms (reels) - 2,028
Microfiche (pieces) - 10,557
Others:
Maps - 3,774

Computerisation

  Application Software MS-WORD, MS-EXCEL, PHOTOSHOP
  Integrated Library System 1992 - Year implemented for current model
1992 - Computerised Cataloguing (year)
1992 - Computerised Indexing (year)
1992 - Online Oublic Access Catalogue
1995 - BRS
  Vendors EPIXTECH
  Hardware specs IBM Risc/6000 Model H70
  URL of Web OPAC http://www.natlib.moe.go.th

Publications

  Serials publications ISSN-SEA Bulletin, Thai National Bibliography

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