17,000 graphic works, and
some 20,000 photographs and portraits. The library published both a
yearbook and a monthly periodical.

The committee maintained two other libraries. One was the Ivan Vazov
State Library, situated in Plovdiv, whose collection included a wide
variety of periodicals, old and rare books, and archives. The other
library under the committee was the Elin Pelin Bulgarian Bibliographical
Institute, which maintained a record of all printed works in the country
and published a monthly bulletin listing all of its publications, an
annual yearbook, and a monthly list of all articles published in reviews
and journals.

In addition there were research-related libraries maintained by the
Academy of Sciences; public school libraries; university libraries;
libraries organized in state plants, factories, and cooperative farms;
regional libraries; and local libraries.

The major regional libraries were located in Burgas, Ruse, Stara Zagora,
Shumen, Varna, Velsko, and Turnovo. The best known local library was the
City Library of Sofia, which contained about 452,862 volumes.

_Table 14. Libraries in Bulgaria, 1971_

---------------------+---------------------------------------------
| Number
Kind of Library |-----------+--------+----------+-------------
| Libraries | Books* | Readers* | Books Lent*
---------------------+-----------+--------+----------+-------------
National | 1 | 814 | 25 | 189
Local | 27 | 5,287 | 259 | 4,807
Reading rooms | 4,108 | 20,387 | 1,359 | 20,744
Enterprises and | | | |
government offices | 2,110 | 6,532 | 537 | 4,984
Public schools | 3,860 | 9,336 | 772 | 6,653
Universities | 23 | 2,077 | 84 | 1,320
Specialized: | | | |
Science | 115 | 1,409 | 29 | 507
Government | 35 | 594 | 16 | 282
Party and public | | | |
organizations | 93 | 804 | 39 | 280
Technical | 212 | 864 | 54 | 398
Medical | 60 | 405 | 36 | 361
Theaters | | | |
(archives) | 133 | 443 | 6