The National Library Gedimino pr. Vilnius Lithuania Tel. In 1996 the National Library has received 63,333 copies of library documents.
Legal deposit remains one of the principle source of acquisitions.
On 2 July 1996 the Public Information Law of the Republic of Lithuania was issued. Article 32 of this law stated that the publishers are responsible for the delivery of legal deposit copies to the library. As a result of theses changes, a new scheme of means and ways of legal deposit retrieval is in preparation. The international exchange is the most importance source of collection development for the Library. There were exchange relations with 236 counterparts in 37 countries in 1996.