Foreign Relations Department It is a unit on the level of a department, managed by a head. On request, it organizes business stays of foreign experts in the NL, it provides sightseeing tours to historical rooms and public premises of the NL in foreign languages, it provides translations, and if need be, interpreting service. It keeps records of all library staff business trips abroad, including the calculation of travel costs (subsistence allowance, accommodation, incidental expenses, and documents for payments abroad); it controls the budget of foreign business trips expenses, it is responsible for the settlement of realized business trips and their accounting. It arranges for the purchase of air/ bus/ train tickets for business trips on request. It provides necessary coordination in preparing the business trips. It organizes study stays of foreign experts both in the NL and in other institutions according to the expert´s profession. It cooperates in organizing international events held by the NL. It retrieves foreign business contacts and keeps in contact with them for current needs of the NL, it organizes exchange business trips of librarians based on the agreements concluded by the NL with other libraries abroad. It coordinates the operation of guest rooms including the accomodating of guests. It cooperates in organizing important events of the NL including the Open days. It is involved in concluding and complying with agreements for foreign patries.
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