All citizens of the Republic of Lithuania and foreign nationals may become library users. They have the right to use all documents stored in the library and the services provided in accordance with the procedures established by the library, which are governed by: „Naudojimosi biblioteka taisyklės“ and „Bibliotekoje teikiamų mokamų paslaugų įkainiai“.

Library Rules

1. All citizens of Lithuania and foreign countries are entitled to use the academic library.
2. Publications for home use are issued (loaned) only to registered library patrons. Registered library patrons may include employees of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore and the Institute of the Lithuanian Language. They must fill out a reader form, which includes personal information and serves as a record of borrowed publications. The form number serves as the reader’s password when ordering books via the electronic catalog.
3. Other visitors are served only on-site; in exceptional cases, they may be granted temporary reader status.
4. Publications are issued for set periods—ranging from 1 month to six months. The loan period may be extended if the publication is not needed by other readers. Readers who fail to return publications on time become delinquent borrowers, and their ability to borrow publications for home use is restricted or completely suspended.
5. Rare publications, old periodicals, and very expensive single-copy items may only be read on-site.
6. Items are loaned based on a request registered in the library’s electronic catalog or upon submission of a completed request form.
7. To protect particularly valuable and unique books, periodicals (prior to 1945), and iconographic documents from physical damage, copying is permitted only in exceptional cases and only with the consent of the institute’s director.
8. If a library publication is lost: the same publication or another of equivalent value must be returned; a high-quality copy (on both sides of the page and well-bound) must be returned or the value of the book copy must be paid; ten times the market price of the publication must be paid.
9. The library’s manuscript collection is available to all Institute researchers on the Institute’s premises.
10. Other individuals (including researchers at the Institute of the Lithuanian Language) must submit a reasoned letter from their employer bearing the signature and seal of the institution’s director, or a personal request specifying the purpose of using the material. Documents may only be accessed upon receiving permission from the Institute’s director. Manuscripts may only be read on the library premises.
11. Only cataloged documents are available for checkout.
12. Permission from the Institute’s director is required to publish manuscripts. If individual texts or small selections of texts are to be published, the publisher must specify in their request where these texts will be published and undertake not to infringe upon the rights of the manuscript contributors and the custodian (the Institute) to the materials, as well as indicate the source of the material.
13. If the manuscripts are to be published as a separate publication or will constitute a significant portion of a publication, the publisher is required to indicate the Institute as the copyright holder in that publication (with the © symbol).
14. To copy manuscript documents, the consent of the institute’s director is also required (a written request must be submitted, specifying which documents are to be copied and for what purpose).
15. Readers who violate these rules will lose their right to use the academic library.