Presidential Library and Russian Archives unify

On June 17, 2010 the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library housed the first meeting of the joint working group for elaborating standards providing access to library, archives and museums resources. As a result of the work the uniform principles and approaches to assembling of information from different repositories into electronic master catalogues have been elaborated.

For the first time in Russia the Presidential Library is developing the holding of electronic forms of documents which includes in equal proportions library, archival and official normative documents. A prevailing information search inside such a resource is possible only under the condition that there are single description standards for all types of the documents.

With that end in view, on the initiative of the Presidential Library and the National Library Center LIBNET was organized a working group as a part of memorandum on cooperation. On the agenda: models of information arrangement in electronic catalogues of libraries and archives, the issues of archival documents description in electronic environment, international standards for presentation of archival information in web environment.

The meeting was attended by the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library Director General A. P. Vershinin, National Library Center LIBNET Director General B. R. Loginov, the Russian State Historical Archives (RSHA) Director A. R. Sokolov.

The working group was formed in May of 2010. Among its members are the leadings experts of the Presidential Library, RSHA, GARF (the State Archives of the RF), RNB (the National Library of Russia), RGB (the Russian State Library), the National Library Center LIBNET, the National service for RUSMARC support.