Digital libraries: the establishment of electronic libraries of Russian Armed Forces was considered at the military writers’ meeting in Moscow

All-Army Conference of military writers was held in Moscow. The meeting, organized by the Office of Culture Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, the General Manning Directorate of the Armed Forces of Russia and the Cultural Center of the Armed Forces of Russia, gathered the military writers, representatives of military districts and military authorities the Ministry of Defense of Russian Federation.

The event was timed to coincide with two significant dates, which will be celebrated in Russia in 2015 - the 70th anniversary of Victory in Great Patriotic War and the Year of the Literature.

Currently, an extensive network of more than 1.1 thousand military libraries with a total book stock of 15 million copies operates in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, and the work on updating the collections of libraries will continue.

At present in the Russian Armed Forces library fund inventory is fully completed. The rare books digitization and a work on creating electronic libraries of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is going on.  77 of the top 100 national patriotic masterpieces from the "Library of Patriotic Literature" series were purchased and sent to the troops.