Development plans of the Presidential Library’s network to discuss in Yekaterinburg

Annual regional meeting "The Presidential Library in the Middle Urals: Tasks and Prospects" will be held on March 15, 2021 at 12:30 at the site of the Belinsky Sverdlovsk Regional Universal Scientific Library (Yekaterinburg, Belinsky Street, 15).

Such spring meetings have become a good tradition of the Presidential Library’s regional network in Sverdlovsk Region: this is an opportunity to discuss issues that have accumulated over the year, take part in master classes and learn about the colleagues’ experience.

In terms of the number of access points to the resources of the Presidential Library, Sverdlovsk Region is one of the three leading regions: 99 remote electronic reading rooms are open in educational and cultural institutions. The representative offices are united by a pilot system of unified methodological support, which ensures interaction between the spheres of education and culture in the development of the Presidential Library network in Sverdlovsk Region and other regions of the Ural Federal District. Within its framework, the creation and support of methodological platforms for teachers and school librarians based on municipal, so-called "reference" libraries continues.

The purpose of the meeting is to discuss issues related to the development of a network of representative offices of the Presidential Library in Sverdlovsk Region and the promotion of information resources among target audiences - mainly school and student, as well as the scientific community.

Like previous years, the event is being implemented under the auspices of the Presidential Library (St. Petersburg) with federal participation: librarians from Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk and Kurgan Regions will work on the site and colleagues from different regions of Russia will join online.

This year's meeting has a practice-oriented format. Head of the Presidential Library User Service Department Lyudmila Savelyeva will speak online with the report “Interaction of the Presidential Library with regional partners in the light of the Strategy for the Development of Library Science in the Russian Federation for the Period up to 2030: Resources, Formats, Opportunities”. The program also includes master classes by specialists from St. Petersburg, Tyumen and Kurgan Regions, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area - Yugra.

A separate block is the presentation of successful projects being implemented in Sverdlovsk Region. Listeners will learn how the work is organized in a closed city on the example of Novouralsk, where almost all schools under the supervision of the local library actively use the resource of the national electronic repository. The head of the library of the village school (Bulanash settlement) Raisa Smetanina will share her experience in creating videos that reveal the electronic fund of the Presidential Library. The participants of the meeting will also learn about lessons and events, including remote ones, which are held by the Innovative Cultural Center in Pervouralsk, where one of the exemplary remote electronic reading rooms of the Presidential Library is opened in the region. Irina Eliseykina, head of the information department of the Municipal Association of Libraries of Yekaterinburg, will tell about the integration of the Presidential Library's resources in the digital space of one of the largest library systems in Russia. 

Since the meeting will be held on the three-year anniversary of the opening of the Sverdlovsk Regional Center of the Presidential Library, festive events are also planned. In particular, a new educational project of the Year of Science and Technology "Space is closer than it seems" will be presented and a quiz for specialists "Question - Answer" will be held. It will also become known on the basis of which institutions the 100th and 101st remote electronic reading rooms will soon be open in Sverdlovsk Region.

More information is available by phone: (343) 304-60-20, ext. 323 (Sverdlovsk Regional Center of the Presidential Library).