New Possibilities in Providing Access to International Organizations Information: Experience of the Centre of Legal Information of the Russian State Library

Author(s):  
Emma A. Voskanyan ◽  
Slava V. Martynyuk

Russian State Library has the status of depository library of several international organizations and works on the basis of partnership and cooperation with the UN Information Centre and offices of other international organizations in Moscow.The paper highlights the experience of the RSL Center of Legal Information in providing access to the authoritative international organizations information on the base of the new technological platform and a new concept of library and information services.The description and the main functions and trends of activities of a new specialized reading room for the documents of international organizations in the Russian State Library which will be opened in the nearest future are also represented in this article.

Author(s):  
Slava V. Martynyuk

On cooperation with the UN Information Centre and on discussion of the UN Report “Millennium Development Goals 2013” in the Center of Documents of International Organizations of the Department of Official and Normative Editions of the Russian State Library


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 578-583
Author(s):  
Irina P. Tikunova

The article presents an overview of the all-Russian scientific and practical conference (with international participation) “Information Context of Culture: Resources, Technologies, Service” (the 11th conference of heads and specialists of information services for culture and art). The conference, orga­nized by the Russian State Library, the Russian State Library of Arts, and the St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture, on the instructions of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, was held in Moscow on September 24—25, 2019. Its purpose was to summarize the results of scientific research and practical experience on the issues of information support of the cultural sector in the digital age, to identify some problems and find ways to overcome them, and to demonstrate the best achievements in this field. The conference was attended by more than 90 representatives of cultural management bodies, federal, regional and municipal libraries, universities, training centers and other organizations of culture, science, education and mass media from 22 regions of Russia, as well as heads and specialists of national libraries of Armenia, Belarus and Kazakhstan (via video link). Thanks to the online broadcast, the total audience of the event increased by almost 200 people. The conference participants noted the importance of scientific and information activities in the cultural sector both for society in general and for the sector’s development in particular. In order to improve this work, the conference participants recommended to promote its digitalization, which is aimed at creating public resources for culture and art and organizing information services in the 7/24 mode via the Internet, including on mobile devices; to intensify the mutual use of resources through participation in joint projects; and to strictly observe copyright when creating information resources and methodological materials.


Author(s):  
Yu. N. Stolyarov

The XI all-Russian scientific and practical conference of heads and specialists of information services on culture and art "Information context of culture: resources, technologies, service", organized by the Russian state library, the Russian state library of arts and the St. Petersburg state Institute of culture, was held in Moscow. It was attended by more than 90 representatives of the cultural authorities, Federal, Central regional and municipal libraries, universities and training centers for training, as well as other institutions of culture, science, education, media and bookselling 24 regions of theRussian Federation. Thanks to online broadcasts, the total audience of the event increased by almost 200 people. Heads and specialists of the national libraries ofArmenia,BelarusandKazakhstantook part in the event via video link. The program included 36 reports and presentations. They were presented at a special session "Year of theatre in the library", Round table" national library as a center of information on culture and art", section "Information potential of cultural organizations in the implementation of the state cultural policy". As a result of such events, the Russian state library publishes collections of materials. The last one was released in 2018.


Author(s):  
Elena N. Makarova

Year’2013 in Russia is declared the Year of Environment. The Theme of the Year’2013 is “Water Cooperation”, within this framework there was hosted a Round Table Meeting at the Documentation Center of International Organizations of the Russian State Library on March 22, 2013, devoted to the issues of the environmental protection.


2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-94
Author(s):  
Sergey A. Bakanov ◽  
Ivan A. Medvedev

Introduction. This article deals with the subject of thesis in the direction of “Economic history”, which were prepared and defended in Russia in the post-Soviet period (1991–2019). The dissolution of the Soviet Union is getting rid of research from ideological clichés, which made the topic of economic history relevant and in demand. Materials and Methods. On the basis of the e-catalog of authors’ abstracts of the Russian State Library, the database “Dissertations on economic history of the late XX – early XXI centuries” was formed. The bibliographic information about the authors’ abstracts became the formal attributes of the described database. The analytical units were the attributes of the “geographical range”, “chronological frame” and “research problem”. Results. The analysis of the database showed that during the entire period were formed stable trends scientific subdirectories within the frame of economic history (history of industry, history of agriculture, history of entrepreneurship, history of banks, etc.), and in maintaining the status of leading research centers. The historical period from the second half of the XIX to the first half of the XX centuries attracts the main attention of the authors of thesis on economic history. Discussion and Conclusion. A quantitative analysis of the dynamic of thesis defenses showed a decline in the interest of authors of thesis in the problems of economic history in the 2010s. The key factors of this decline were changes in the requirements to thesis. Nevertheless, the authors believe that the direction of “economic history” has a potential to overcome designated problems.


Author(s):  
Liya A. Ivanova

On the round table “Life without Drugs”, held on December 12, 2012 at the Center for Documents of International Organizations of the Public State and Regulatory Publications Department of the Russian State Library.


Author(s):  
Margarita Y. Dvorkina

The purpose of this study is to identify and analyse services on the websites of national libraries of Russia. The author presents definition of the concept “library (library and information) service” and highlights the essence of these services. The article analyses how the services are presented on the official websites of national libraries: the Russian State Library (RSL), the National Library of Russia (NLR) and the Presidential Library named after B. Yeltsin (PL). The author uses the following methods: analysis of texts of library sites, comparison, generalization, classification analysis. RSL names the services on the main page of the website and provides the list of fee-based services. NLR also demonstrates services twice, but more complete list presents on the main page of the site. PL does not provide the full list of services on the website, but lists some services in the section “Access to Resources” (also, the site presents “The Price List of fee-based services (works)”. Electronic services of national libraries of Russia are allocated.The author characterizes classification of services on the website of each national library. Analysis of these services shows that they are not presented comprehensively (most fully in the RSL), and the services are called and classified by libraries in different ways. Users accessing different national libraries are not always able to understand exactly what services are described there.The article proposes classification of library and information services developed by the author. The classification is based on two attributes: the object that is requested by the user (document, reference, etc.), and the place of service. This classification can be used by both national and other libraries.


Author(s):  
Article Editorial

On July, 14—15th, 2009 the delegation from the National library of Republic Korea has visited the Russian State Library and took part in opening of the renovated reading room of the Korean literature.


Author(s):  
Galina I. Akopova ◽  
Elena A. Krylova ◽  
Larisa S. Rubtsova

A retrospective journey into the history of the current periodicals reading room of the RSL. The paper highlights peculiarities of working with domestic and foreign periodicals, dynamics of the periodicals acquisition during the past 30 years and results of the periodicals collection usage for different years. Statistics of comparative analysis of printed and digital domestic periodicals usage and suggestions to improve collection acquisitionis presented.


Author(s):  
S. V. Martyniuk

The article covers the activities of the Russian State Library (RSL), being the Depository Library of the United Nations (UN). There is examined the socio-cultural activity of the RSL Center of Documents of International Organizations, as well as RSL partnership and cooperation with the UN Information Center in Moscow and representative offices of the other UN organizations and agencies. There are discusses various events dedicated to the activities of the UN, which were held at the Russian State Library.


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