Employees of educational organizations of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area and the Donetsk People's Republic improve their skills at the Presidential Library

From June 13 to June 19, 2024, the Presidential Library will be providing training for employees of educational organizations in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area and the Volnovakha District of the Donetsk People's Republic as part of an additional professional development program titled "Improving the Effectiveness of the Educational Process through the Use of Digital Resources from the Presidential Library". The training will take place remotely.

Professional development for education workers is part of the plan to increase of the usage of the information and educational resources of the Presidential Library in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area for 2024-2025. This plan was signed in February of this year.

The roadmap also includes plans to open remote access centers for the Presidential Library and implement joint educational projects. Additionally, there are plans to promote video materials about World War II and other related topics in educational and cultural institutions in the Yamal-Nenets District and Volnovakh District of the Donetsk People's Republic. These regions have signed a friendship and cooperation agreement with the Yamal-Nenet Area.

The program participants get familiar with the structure of the collections and the search engine of the Presidential Library portal. They learn about the specifics of working in the electronic reading room and how to access the institution's resources through remote access centers.

During the training, staff from the Presidential Library share their experience on using library resources in the educational process and organizing educational projects and patriotic events. Students also learn about the contents of electronic collections included in the unified history textbook for high school students. More than 15% of all Internet links in the textbooks lead to electronic collections from the Presidential Library, containing over 15,000 historical documents and materials.

Also, during the training, there will be an opportunity to analyze the work of teachers who are participating in the contest The Future of the Fatherland in the Hands of a Teacher. A large-scale electronic project, Presidential Library for Teachers: Teaching Using Primary Sources, will be presented on the portal of the Presidential Library. This project aims to provide methodological assistance to teachers when they work with primary sources.

The scenarios of lessons of humanitarian subjects that were developed as part of this project were based on information resources from the Presidential Library, such as research, journalistic materials, archival documents, and visual and cartographic materials. For the Presidential Library, interaction with regions is a key area of activity. It has long-term cooperation with the institutions of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area. In October 2013, Library signed an agreement with the government of the region. As a result, in 2014, a regional center of  remote acсess to the Library's resources in Salekhard, based on the National Library of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area was opened. Today, there are more than 50 remote access centers throughout the region.

On the portal of the Presidential Library, there is an electronic collection called Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area: Pages of History. This collection contains studies, statistical materials, and archival documents from the second half of the 19th century that characterize the administrative, socio-economic, demographic, and ethnographic situation in the territories that are now part of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area.

Another collection on the library's portal is called Donetsk People's Republic: Pages of History. This collection includes official and archival documents, abstracts from dissertations, research, statistical data, maps, and visual materials that allow us to learn about the main events in the history of the Donetsk region from the 19th century until today.