Annual report 1997 to the Conference of European National Libraries. Dr. Alois Ospelt, Director Gerberweg 5 P.O. Box 385 FL-9490 Vaduz Liechtenstein Tel. The National Library stated its points of view regarding the published draft administrative decrees on working time and further training of the civil servants and personnel of the Liechtenstein Administration. It has particularly been underlined that the planned working time models could conflict with the goal of establishing a customer oriented library. The principal part of the inventory of the National Library is kept in rented rooms in an administration building.
Further inventory is kept in two external stockrooms which are also rented.
At the end of May 1997, the Government approved a report and made a proposal to Parliament for the enlargement of the National Library. On 18 June 1997, an obligatory credit of 2.6 million Swiss Francs for the first phase of enlargement was approved by Parliament. Construction worked started in September 1997. The National Library will receive approx. 380 m 2 in the administration building mentioned above in addition to its existing usable area of approx.