Penza schoolchildren learned about Development of the Arctic collection

November 22, 2019, specialists of the Penza Regional Center of Access to the Resources of the Presidential Library held a practice-oriented lesson on working with the Presidential Library’s portal for eighth-graders of school № 64, dedicated to the 125th birthday of the famous researcher Ivan Papanin.

Pupils were presented the collection Development of the Arctic, which contains 375 documents. The collections includes publications related to the period of the "Arctic boom" in the Soviet Union in the 20-30s of the twentieth century.

The guys got familiar with the book “Why we organized the Papanin expedition”. It covered the first successes in the development of the Northern Sea Route, how the Arctic was studied, as well as about the scientific and practical significance of the “Papanin” drift. Then the guys watched a film from the collections of the national library “Development of the Arctic and the Northern Sea Route”.

The students received information about the Presidential Library’s remote electronic reading room and learned how the Presidential Library’s portal website prlib.ru provides electronic access to the national cultural heritage devoted to the theory, history and practice of Russian statehood and the Russian language as the state language of the Russian Federation.

Young readers were told in detail about the interactive Russia in the Electronic World Olympiad, which is held annually by the Presidential Library for high school students, while participants answered questions from last year’s Olympiad.

The Presidential Library’s portal features Penza Region: Pages of History collection. It includes archival affairs, essays, studies and statistical materials which spotlight various aspects of the history of the region from the end of the 18th to the first third of the 20th century: demographic, geographical, socio-economic, socio-political and others, as well as the current Charter of Penza Region.

Based on the materials of http://liblermont.ru portal.