In the United Kingdom, the purpose of legal deposit is to “preserve knowledge and information for future generations and to “preserve the published national archives of the British Isles”. [95] The purpose and intention of preserving publications for national posterity also applied to other countries, including the United States. According to Thomas Lidman, “the repository is the foundation on which national library services can be built, and it helps to ensure that the country`s intellectual heritage is preserved and available for study.” [96] In Romania, all publishers are required to deposit copies of publications with the National Library of Romania. For books and brochures, the minimum requirement is 7 copies. [67] For periodicals, textbooks and audiovisual publications, the legal deposit is 6 copies, while for scores, atlases and maps, the minimum required is 3 copies. Also for doctoral theses, the legal deposit is 1 copy. For printed publications (e.g. books, magazines, newsletters), legal deposit provisions apply. Print publishers are required to deposit two copies of their publication with the National Library. It makes it easy to find and order books and is usually printed on the back of the title page and on the back. It is not required by law to have an ISBN and is generally only recommended if a book is intended for wider distribution, for example outside a family group or association.
In Colombia, the Law on Legal Deposit is implemented by Law 44 of 1993, Legislative Decree 460 of 16. March 1999 and Decree 2150 of 1995. These laws and decrees refer specifically to the National Library of Colombia. Creators of print, audio-visual and video productions must make available to the Library a certain number of copies of the works, whether made in Colombian territory or imported. The legal deposit of four copies of each publication is required by an Act of 16 July 1952 at the Faroese National Library. [32] In Switzerland, there is no federal law introducing legal deposit,[76] but the cantons of Vaud,[77] Fribourg,[78] Geneva,[79] and Ticino,[80] have adopted laws on legal deposit that apply to books published in their respective jurisdictions. For example, the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense has been the legal deposit library in Lombardy since 1788 (when it covered the Duchy of Milan) and the National Central Library in Florence since 1743 (for the Grand Duchy of Tuscany). In Finland, the Royal Academy of Turku obtained the right to receive a copy of all works published in Sweden in 1707.
After Finland was ceded by Sweden to Russia, this privilege was confirmed in 1809. In 1820, all Russian printing presses began to send legally deposited copies to Finland. Legal deposit in the United Kingdom stems from an agreement between Sir Thomas Bodley and the Stationers` Company that copies of new books should be included in the Bodleian collection. [85] The Statute of Anne (1710) formalizes the practice by referring in England to the Royal Library (now the British Library), the University of Cambridge and the Library of Sion College, and in Scotland to the Advocates Library and the universities of St. Andrews, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. After unification with Ireland, Trinity College and the King`s Inns in Dublin were extended to Trinity College and King`s Inns by an Act of 1801.[86] [87] [88] From 1814 onwards, publishers supplied institutions on demand, not automatically. [87] [89] In 1836, Sion College, King`s Inns and Scottish universities were removed from the list and paid with a scholarship equal to the average annual value of books deposited over the previous three years. [87] [90] The Copyright Act 1911 granted limited depository rights to the National Library of Wales, with full rights in 1987. Law from the Advocates Library was transferred to the National Library of Scotland when it was founded in 1925. The Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003[91] reaffirms section 15 of the Copyright Act 1911,[92] which requires that a copy of every book published therein (including brochures, periodicals, newspapers, sheet music and maps) be sent to the British Library. The other five depository libraries have the right to request a free copy within one year of publication, a procedure which they normally coordinate jointly through the Agency for Legal Deposit Libraries.
The 2003 Act contains provisions for the deposit of works without printing. This legislation was updated with the introduction of secondary legislation, The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations 2013,[93] which provides for the legal deposit of works published online or offline in formats other than print, such as websites, blogs, electronic journals and CD-ROMs. Social media content is included in the law, but not private messages sent through social media platforms. Video-only streaming sites are also exempt from the legislation. [94] The Liechtenstein State Library, colloquially known as the State Library, was officially established in 1961 by the National Library Foundation. The Staatsbibliothek has a compulsory deposit. With the amended statutes, the tasks of the Staatsbibliothek as such have changed: the Staatsbibliothek now functions both as a national library and as a scientific and public library. As the national library, the Staatsbibliothek brings together prints, images and music by Liechtenstein citizens and residents. In addition, the Staatsbibliothek serves as a patent library for the Principality of Liechtenstein and, as such, provides access to comprehensive international patent information. The rules of the Staatsbibliothek shall be based on the applicable legislation of the European Economic Area of Liechtenstein and Swiss law. [60] In South Africa, the Legal Deposit Act 1997 requires publishers to provide five copies of each book published if the print run is 100 copies or more.
These copies are to be deposited at the National Library of South Africa (NLSA) in Cape Town, the NLSA in Pretoria, the Mangaung Library Services in Bloemfontein, the Msunduzi Public Library in Pietermaritzburg and the Library of Parliament in Cape Town. If the print run is less than 100 copies, only one copy is required, which must be deposited with the NLSA in Cape Town. If there are less than 20 copies, no deposit is required. The 1957 decree created a solid administrative basis for legal deposit in Spain, based on the separation between the provincial offices, which administered the deposit at the local level, and the preservation of libraries such as the National Library. The decree stipulated that printers were responsible for depositing several copies of all published works in the National Library and other public libraries. This legal deposit legislation covered a wide range of documents, including printed materials such as books and magazines, sound recordings, maps, films and postcards. [72]: 95–97 The forerunner of the National and University Library of Slovenia, the Ljubljana Lyceum Library, was founded around 1774 by a decree of Maria Theresa from the remains of the Jesuit library and several monastic libraries.