List of libraries in Lithuania

This is a list of libraries in Lithuania.

Libraries by county

Alytus

• Alytus District Municipality Public Library
• Varėna District Municipality Public Library

Kaunas

• Kaunas County Public Library^[1]
• Kaunas University of Technology Library
• Library of Jonava
• Lithuanian Sports University Library, Kaunas^[2]
• Vytautas Magnus University Library, Kaunas

Klaipėda

• Klaipėda City Municipality Immanuel Kant Public Library
• Klaipėda County Ieva Simonaitytė Public Library^[1]
• Klaipeda University Library^[3]

Marijampolė

• Marijampolė Petras Kriaučiūnas Public Library
• Šakiai Public Library

Panevėžys

• Panevėžys County Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė Public Library^[1]
• Pasvalys Marius Katiliškis Public Library

Šiauliai

• Jonas Avyžius Public Library
• Šiauliai County Povilas Višinskis Public Library^[1]

Tauragė

• Jurbarkas District Municipality Public Library^[1]
• Šilalė Public Library
• Tauragė District Municipality Birutė Baltrušaitytė Public Library

Telšiai

• Plungė District Municipal Public Library, Telšiai
• Telšiai District Municipality Karolina Praniauskaitė Public Library

Utena

• Utena A. and M. Miškiniai Public Library

Vilnius

• Lithuanian Library for the Blind, Vilnius
• Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania^[4][5]
• Vilnius County Adamas Mickevičius Public Library
• Vilnius University Library^[3]
• Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences^[1]

See also

• History of archives of Lithuania
• Lithuanian literature
• Mass media in Lithuania

in other languages

• Copyright in Lithuania (in Russian)
• Legal deposit in Lithuania (in Lithuanian)
• Lithuanian libraries (in Lithuanian)
• Lithuanian Research Library Consortium (in Lithuanian)

References

1. ^ "Institutions: Lithuania", europeana.eu, Netherlands: Europeana Foundation, retrieved 2026-02-08
2. ^ "Library Publishing Directory 2024", librarypublishing.org, US: Library Publishing Coalition, retrieved 2026-02-08
3. ^ "List of LIBER Libraries", libereurope.eu, Netherlands: Association of European Research Libraries/LIBER Europe, retrieved 2026-02-08
4. ^ "IFLA Members", ifla.org, Netherlands: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, 2026-01-06
5. ^ "EBLIDA Members", eblida.org, Netherlands: European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations, retrieved 2026-02-08

This article incorporates information from the Lithuanian Wikipedia.

Further reading

• Renaldas Gudauskas (1994). "Lithuanian Library History". International Information & Library Review. 26
• Wayne A. Wiegand & Donald G. Davis Jr. (eds.) (1994). "Former Soviet Republics: the Baltic Republics". Encyclopedia of Library History. New York: Garland. p. 205.
• Edward Kasinec & Robert H. Davis Jr. (2001). "Central and Eastern European Libraries". International Dictionary of Library Histories. Vol. 1. David H. Stam (ed.). Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 39+. ISBN 1579582443. (includes brief section about Lithuania)
• Laimë Gabrielë Lukošiûnienë (2001). "Art libraries of Lithuania". Art Libraries Journal. 26. doi:10.1017/S0307472200011998
• Elena Macevičiūtė (2014). "The library sector in Lithuania at the beginning of the twenty-first century". Library Trends. 63. – via University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
• "Lithuania". World Guide to Libraries 2017. Vol. 1. 32nd ed. Germany: De Gruyter Saur. 2017. p. 486+. ISBN 9783110517514. – via Internet Archive.
• Elena Macevičiūtė (2017), "Lithuania: Libraries and Librarianship", "Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences", Vol. 5, 4th ed., John D. McDonald & Michael Levine-Clark (eds.), US: CRC Press, p. 2943+

External links

• "Library Map of the World: Lithuania", ifla.org, Netherlands: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
• "Lietuvos kolegijų bibliotekų asociacija (LKBA)" [Lithuanian College Libraries Association] (in Lithuanian)
• "Lietuvos savivaldybių viešųjų bibliotekų asociacija" [Association of Public Libraries of Lithuanian Municipalities] (in Lithuanian)