Abstract
During the Soviet years, each of the fifteen constituent union republics established a book chamber tasked with maintaining legal deposit of publications, archival preservation, national bibliography, centralized cataloging, and other book-related responsibilities. This introductory article summarizes the fate of the book chambers and national bibliographies after the dissolution of the USSR in late 1991. Several countries have maintained their book chambers, with varying success, while six countries have merged their book chambers' responsibilities and collections into their national libraries, again with varying degrees of success.
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