Announcements
The conference “Laurentian Chronicle. Historical memory and succession of generations” to be held in the Presidential Library
June 20, 2012 the Presidential Library will host the inter-regional conference “Laurentian Chronicle. Historical memory and the succession of generations”, dedicated to the 1150th anniversary of the Russian statehood. The electronic version of the Laurentian Chronicle will become the main event of the presentation.
New documents on the Great Patriotic War have been added to the Presidential Library’s holdings
Marking the 67th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the Presidential Library has added about 10, 000 documents, most of which are published in open access at the library’s portal, to “The Memory of the Great Victory” collection.
The Presidential Library welcomes to the conference on legal issues of access to information
13 April 2012 the Boris Yeltsin Presidential library with participation of the Association of Lawyers of Russia is hosting the annual conference on the issues of legal regulation in electronic environment. The conference subject is “The right for information access: opportunities and restrictions in electronic environment”.
A new exhibition of the Presidential Library is timed to the 150th birthday anniversary of P. A. Stolypin
April 10, 2012 the Presidential Library opened an exhibition "The Public Mood of the Soul", devoted to the birthday anniversary of the bright state figure of tsarist Russia P. A. Stolypin.
One day left until the results of the Interactive Olympiad are summed up
21 March 2012, the Presidential Library is housing the third round of the “Russia in Electronic World” Interactive Olympiad for senior high school students on the Russian history and social science.
The Presidential Library to hold two meetings on the development of formats of presentation and exchange of archival descriptions
21 March 2012, the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library will be holding two meetings on the development of standardized formats of representation and exchange of archival descriptions in the machine-readable form.
“The Color and Time” project to be presented in the Presidential Library
20 March 2012 the Presidential Library will present “The Color and Time” project timed to an exhibition of S. M. Prokudin-Gorsky photographs and a workshop by the leading photo correspondents of St. Petersburg. Within the presentation there will be announced the launch of preparative work for the Third Annual Photo Contest “Foreign View”.
The Presidential Library organizes training seminars on cataloguing
In 2012 the Presidential library will hold training seminars on the subject of “Methodology of cataloguing of digital copies of various types and kinds of resources”. The seminars will include lectures and practical training.
Exhibition project of the Presidential Library devoted to the heritage of photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
The preparatory work over a new exhibition project focused on the rich heritage of the Russian photo artist S. M. Prokudin-Gorsky is in progress at the Presidential Library. The exhibition is due to kick off in February 2012.
The Presidential Library presents exhibition in honor of Russian scientist M. V. Lomonosov
To mark the anniversary of the great Russian scholar M. V. Lomonosov the Presidential Library launches the Exhibition “The State Intellect of Wide Range”. At the core of the exposition are rare editions, valuable archival documents and their electronic copies revealing the work of the academician seeking to bring the Fatherland to prosperity.