Current Awareness and Document Supply Service
Tbilisi, Georgia

The Library Automation Association in Georgia (LAAG)and the National Library of Georgia created an independent "Current Awareness and Document Supply Service" in 1996 thanks to the generous grant from the Eurasia Foundation. At present, it is one of the leading agencies of this sort that can assist you in becoming aware of documents of all kinds published in Georgia and that can deliver them to you in various ways.

The Service can provide you with the following products and services:

  • Information Services
    1. Weekly preparation of bibliographic lists of articles with keywords on a requested subject by newspapers and journals issued in Tbilisi during previous week.
    2. Retrospective information retrieval on a requested subject in Georgian periodicals beginning from 1828 up to the present.
    3. Retrospective information retrieval on a requested subject, author, type of literature, etc. in catalogues (including electronic ones) of the largest Tbilisi libraries.
    4. Translation services from Georgian into Russian, English, French, German and vice versa.
  • Supply Services
    1. Purchase of requested materials and their dispatch by airmail.
    2. Photocopying of requested materials and their dispatch by airmail.
    3. Scanning of requested materials and sending them by fax or E-mail.
    4. Passing of International interlibrary loan requests to any Tbilisi library - free.

    Methods of payment:
    Payment for Information services: 2, 3, and 4 carried out on a contractual basis.
    For all other information services listed above, there is only one method of payment: a bank transfer in advance sufficient to cover all ordered products and services.
    Account numbers in the proper order:
    Republic National Bank of New York ABA number:# 021004823
    account no. 608477621
    In favor of: The Bank of Georgia.
    Beneficiary acc.no. 301070783.

    Would you like to become our customer and to request a precise description of our supply services with a comprehensive price-list? We will highly appreciate any help in distributing this information letter to those who might be interested in our Service. We look forward to hearing from you.

    Sincerely yours,

    Teimuraz Chkhenkeli
    President of LAAG,
    Deputy Director of the National Library of Georgia

    Fax: +(995 32) 98 75 46
    E-mail: chkhenk@iberiapac.ge

    Information on postage prices.