National Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Қазақстан Республикасының Ұлттық Кıтапханасы

The National library is the biggest scientific-methodological center for the libraries of Kazakhstan; the legal depositary of all printed production of Kazakhstan; the depositary of the Committee for the control in the sphere of education and science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the RK for candidate and doctoral dissertations in all branches of science defended in Kazakhstan; depositary of the abstracts of theses of the CIS countries; from 1993 the depositary of scientific dissertations and publications of UNESCO, from 2005 – the depositary of literature published by the “Cultural heritage” state program; from 2012 – the depositary of publications of the Assembly of the people of Kazakhstan of Almaty city.