Stefanyk Library, Lviv

The Stefanyk Library was founded on January 2, 1940. The main building was arranged on the basis of the Ossolinski Institute. The collection included the funds of the library of the National Technical School and the People's House in Lviv of the Prosvita Society, confiscated monastery libraries, and private collections. The library was supported by the artist Mykola Bidniak. The Library has 3 research institutes. The Library's resources are used by about 200 thousand users, who annually receive up to 800 thousand documents. Specialists, postgraduates and students are served in 18 branch and specialized halls. The library employed 426 specialists, including 5 doctors of sciences and 22 candidates of sciences. In 2018 , the library employed 334 people. Since 1944 , the institution was called the Lviv Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1963, the library was re-subordinated to the Ministry of Culture of the Ukrainian SSR and received the status of a research institute.

1994 - the library was renamed the Vasyl Stefanyk Lviv Scientific Library of Ukraine. 2008 - President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko granted the Library the status of a national library. In 2018 , the library was headed by Vasyl V. Ferstein. The collection consists of 7 million items, 250 thousand rare editions, 75 thousand manuscripts, and 49 incunabula. The collection includes editions of works by Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainka, Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi, Mykola Gogol, Victor Hugo, and Honore de Balzac. Alexandre Dumas, Charles Dickens, Adam Mickiewicz, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, etc. Among the most valuable acquisitions of the library are the original letters of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainka, Victor Hugo, etc. The V. Stefanyk National Library of Ukraine is the only library in Ukraine that owns works of Ukrainian and world art: engravings, sculptures, drawings, and photographs. The largest collection of music by Ukrainian and foreign composers. The total volume of funds, which are of exceptional importance for Ukrainian science and cannot be reproduced in case of loss or destruction, is 3 million 725 thousand items. The library regularly holds scientific conferences.

• Vasyl V. Fershtei - Director General
• Halyna Svarnyk - Head of the Research Department of Historical Collections
• Nazariy Loshtyn - researcher at the Manuscripts Department