Commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania as a Parliamentary Library: The International Research Conference ‘Political Leadership in a Parliamentary Democracy’

Abstract

Three decades ago, on 20 November 1991, the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania was entrusted with the function of a parliamentary library. On this occasion, there was the international research conference ‘Political Leadership in a Parliamentary Democracy’ held at the National Library on 23–24 November 2021 with a view to discussing the following thematic issues: (1) provision of information services for legislators and decision makers (challenges related to information analysis), (2) communication and philosophy of political leadership from the perspective of democratic parliamentarism, (3) developments in information policy, and (4) role and experience of national libraries in a social crisis. Reports were presented by researchers from the United Kingdom, France, Poland, Bulgaria, Latvia, and Lithuania. The article introduces the presentations clustered according to these thematic issues.