The Presidential Library opened an electronic reading room in the Kyrgyz Republic

Official ceremony of signing an agreement on cooperation between the Presidential Library and the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University took place today, on March 29, 2017, in Bishkek. On the same day, within the framework of implementation of one of the clauses of the agreement, a remote electronic reading room of the Presidential Library was opened on the basis of the university. Its visitors will now be able to access unique information resources - electronic copies of archival and museum documents, rare book editions, documentary newsreels on the history of Russian statehood.

The vice-rector of the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavonic University for Academic Development Kanat Sadykov, deans of the humanities, law and economics departments, students, as well as the staff of the Presidential Library attended the opening ceremony.

It should also be mentioned that this was not the first opening of the electronic reading room of the Presidential Library on the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic. On June 7, 2011, the first reading room of the Presidential Library was opened on the basis of the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Bishkek. Its visitors received operative access to the entire library stock, which numbers today more than 500 thousand items.

The collection entitled “Kyrgyzstan: Geography, Ethnography, History,” reflecting the period when Kyrgyzstan entered the Russian state could be reviewed on the occasion of the opening of the Presidential Library center. It contains digital copies of the research, the archival and cartographic documents of the XIX – the beginning of XX century. For example, the collection included a feature article on the life of the Semirechye Kirghiz. The document dates back to March 1887.

Today, already 28 access centers to electronic resources of the Presidential Library open and successfully operate in 23 countries, including Italy, Spain, Hungary, the USA, Germany, the Czech Republic, and others. The library continues its active development and in the future it is going to open its remote electronic reading rooms all over the world.