The Presidential Library hosted a conference on the promotion of national cultural heritage in the electronic environment

On May 23, 2023 a scientific and practical conference was held at the Presidential Library. It focused on the promotion of the national cultural heritage in the electronic environment. The event was held as part of the implementation of the state policy to preserve and strengthen traditional Russian spiritual and moral values. On November 9, 2022 the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation "On Approval of the Fundamentals of State Policy for the Preservation and Strengthening of Traditional Russian Spiritual and Moral Values" was issued.

The purpose of the conference was to discuss the methodology and results of the research to promote the national heritage in the electronic environment, study and generalize the experience of libraries and determine ways to preserve and strengthen traditional Russian spiritual and moral values, given the importance of the task of combining efforts to strengthen the ideas of statehood and citizenship in the public mind and patriotism as the foundations of the national self-identification of Russians.

The following topics were discussed:

– Libraries and spiritual culture of the nation;

– Libraries as an ideological space, a social institution in the electronic environment;

– Digital cultural heritage in a single electronic knowledge space: basic concepts and development models;

– Innovative experience of libraries in promoting regional cultural heritage;

- "Digital Humanities": new technologies in the presentation of cultural national heritage in the electronic environment.

In addition to the plenary session the following sections were discussed at the conference:

– “Projects of Russian libraries to promote the national heritage in the electronic environment, in order to preserve and strengthen traditional Russian spiritual and moral values”;

– “Family and Historical Memory in the Digital Age”;

– “Libraries and tourism: points of contact in the digital space”;

– Expert session “Issues of improving the processes of acquisition, presentation and promotion of library collections in the context of information support for the activities of state bodies of the Russian Federation”.

Researchers, librarians, teachers, graduate students, employees of other cultural institutions, heads and employees of state and municipal bodies and institutions, public organizations joined the conference.

The conference is available on the Rutube-channel of the institution.

As a result of the conference a collection of research papers entering the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) was published.