The Presidential Library today in the figures, facts, and plans

A volume of the Presidential Library electronic stock exceeded in 2017 600,000 entries. The General Director of the Presidential Library Alexander Vershinin officially announced this. He has made it plain that more than 60 million scans of various kinds of documents relating to the history, theory and practice of Russian statehood, the Russian language as the state language of the Russian Federation are now included into the national information resource.

“The special quality of our electronic fund is collecting the archival documents that take more than half of the total volume of evidences, almost 320,000 entries, — Alexander Vershinin specified and added that in upcoming 2018 the library stock will be added with the materials of Russian museums, and special attention will be paid to photographs.

In 2017, the number of digitized periodicals has significantly increased, currently making about 160,000 entries. Work with them will continue along with digitizing the paperbacks, manuscripts, recent scientific articles and author’s abstracts.

Apart from scanning documents in-house the Presidential Library does it in other locations: mobile scanning complexes are organized in the Military History Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps, the State Russian Museum, the St. Petersburg State University, and the Russian Geographical Society. In 2017, that kind of complex was set in the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The Presidential Library stock is being added with the unique materials of some Internet resources. The number of audio-visual content is also growing, including the products of the Presidential Library in-house multimedia complex: the documentaries, public video lecturing, and much more.

Documents from the Presidential Library fund become more accessible — in 2017 a new version of library website was launched, the number of unique per-year users exceeded 2 million.

The sources of the Presidential Library stock are available via built network of remote access centers, currently numbering 470 locations. They are open in all 85 regions of the Russian Federation on the basis of central regional libraries, state institutions, museums, archives, schools and universities. 34 remote access centers are located abroad on the basis of Russian centers of science and culture and other organizations across 27 countries.