New projects of the Presidential Library will be presented in Crimea

The delegation of the Presidential Library takes part in the “Book. Culture. Education. Innovation” Third International Professional Forum, which is taking place in Sudak from the 3rd to 11th of June 2017. Every year expertise librarians, employees and heads of the libraries, publishing houses, bookselling and book distribution organizations, museums, archives, information centers, universities, technical schools, computer and Internet companies, businesses, law firms, institutions of science, culture and education get here together to discuss industry’s key issues and exchange of experience.

The Presidential Library staff has traditionally been actively involved in all forum events. This year, they present reports on the main areas of the library business. Thus, a pilot project of the Presidential Library on keeping network resources in the format of a web archive will be featured within the framework of the “Electronic libraries and online resources in current library and information environment” section. In addition, a project of the Presidential Library timed to the 100th anniversary of the revolution of 1917 will take place in the course of “The Great Russian Revolution in the libraries stock and electronic sources: texts and contexts” round table.

A seminar and a round table of the Presidential Library named “Project activities of cultural, scientific and educational organizations in the electronic environment” is in forum agenda as well. The event starts at 9 am on June 8, 2017, and will be broadcast live on the Russian Association of Electronic Libraries website. This year, apart from invited to participate in the event library employees, all those who interested were offered to join it. Thus, an experience of running projects in various areas of organizations such as the Presidential Library, the Russian State Library, the LIBNET National Information Library Center, the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, and the St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture will be introduced.

The Presidential Library has been successfully developing cooperation with the Crimea for several years. So, the Crimean Republican Universal Scientific Library named after I. Y. Franco has accommodates the premises of the Regional Center of Access to the Resources of the Presidential Library. Several electronic reading rooms are already opened and successfully functioning in Sevastopol. In the near future it is planned to open an information and educational center of the Presidential Library in Simferopol.

In addition, on May 25, 2017, the exhibition of the first in the Russian Empire color photographs entitled “The wide spread of Russia in Color Photography by Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky” officially opened in the Livadia Palace in Crimea. Among the organizers of this exhibition are the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Crimea, The Livadia Palace-Museum State Budget Institution of Culture of Crimea Republic, the State Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Karl Bulla Historical Photography Foundation, and the Presidential Library.