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ALBAD is a professional association, mainly acting for individuals, with about 150 members. Main objectives are advocacy, training and social events.

ULBP is composed by institutions and associations. The majority of public libraries (16) and 2 associations (ALBAD & FëBLux) are members. The ULBP president is always a politician, a member of Parliament. Their main goal is advocacy.

The BNL collects all edited and printed publications at national level (legal deposit) as well as acts as university library with a larger collection of not Luxembourgish media. Furthermore the BNL is the center of the national union catalogue Bibnet.lu, run by the State.

Finance the national library and distribute subsidies to public libraries.

Non-governmental non-profit national fundraising organization for the creation, development and perpetuation of public libraries.

The law is aimed at maintaining existing strong public libraries (not creating new ones and not support weak ones).

Since 1912 (the law of the 10.08.1912 was abolished by the one of the 06.02.2009) libraries in primary schools are compulsory.

The current state before the law of the 25.06.2004 was that almost every secondary school already owned a library. Since 2004, for every old and new establishment, a library is compulsory.

Since 1970 a library in every penitentiary establishment is compulsory and access to the collections is guaranteed.

All published materials published, put on sale, distributed, rented out, or otherwise made available for reproduction, in any form (analogue/virtual, including databases, software, and the products of artificial intelligence), are concerned by legal deposit, with up to five copies being deposited with the National Library. In the case of audio-visual works, these are deposited, following specific rules on technical format, at the National Centre for Audiovisual Media.  In the case of publications in the Luxembourgish language, or dealing with Luxembourgish culture, at least one copy should be deposited with the National Centre for Literature. The Library also has a responsibility to collect as wide a selection as possible of materials published elsewhere. The National Library is charged with providing the widest possible access to its collections, including through loan and remote access, and can play the role of a university library. More specific details (including on the precise number of copies) are listed in a separate decree, which can change regularly.

The National Library also has a role in coordinating the network of libraries in Luxembourg, and hosts the national ISBN and ISSN centres.

Copies in for preservation/conservation can be made without copyright infringement, and access can be given on the premises of a recognised library. There is no restriction on the technology or format of such copies.
Libraries in the education sector can produce copies without paying royalties. Libraries open to the general public (such as public libraries) do need to pay royalties for public copying, via collecting societies. There are frequent amendments to the law.
Library lending is conditional on payment of public lending right. This, as well as the institutions to which it applied, is determined through secondary legislation. School, university and research libraries are not affected. The sums payable for any given library are calculated at 2EUR per registered user having borrowed a book in the past year. Money comes from the local authority budget in the case of public libraries, the state for national ones, or the library itself in other cases.
There are also exceptions for quotation, teaching, research, use of orphan works. Temporary storage (caching), caricature, pastiche, parody, and for making copies of works in formats for people with visual or hearing impairments. Luxembourg has yet to implement properly EU rules relating to the Marrakesh Treaty. It appears not to have implemented provisions on technological protection measures (including how to circumvent these when they prevent enjoyment of exceptions and limitations).
Luxembourg will need to implement the EU Copyright Directive, which will bring in new rules on text and data mining, digital teaching and out-of-commerce works.

A minimum Bachelor degree in librarianship is only required for state civil servants (not: employees) in the cultural and education sector.

This national regular event organised by all public and privte book sector actors together takes place on 3-4 days around the UNESCO book day (23rd of April). All interested libraries can join it.