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Nicole Cabell’s concert and disc recording at the Presidential Library
March 9, 2013 the Great Hall of the Presidential Library hosted the only Russian concert of opera singer from the United States, Nicole Cabell. Accompanied by Constantine Orchestra (conductor Constantine Orbelian), she sang arias by Mozart.
Women’s Day in newspaper collections of the Presidential Library
On the 100th anniversary of the first meeting of women in St. Petersburg, which was an omen of International Women's Day, the Presidential Library added to its collections March issues of newspapers of different years. It would be wrong to call them festive, because the day of March 8 became a non-working day only in 1965.
The Presidential Library is developing an intellectual contest
The Presidential Library intends to increase its influence on the Internet in order to provide through its resources reliable and objective information on the history of Russia, the development of territories, formation of the culture of Russian language.
The Presidential Library takes part in the events marking the 1150th anniversary of the origin of the Slavic written language
In the framework of celebration of the 1150th anniversary of the origin of the Slavic written language, the Office of Rossotrudnichestvo in the Republic of Belarus - Russian Centre of Science and Culture in Minsk - jointly with the Presidential Library will hold a set of activities to promote the Russian language.
The Presidential Library accumulates modern IT
Delegation of the Presidential Library is participating in the World Exhibition of digital technology CeBIT which opened on March 5, 2013 in Hannover (Germany).
Soviet and emigrant newspapers to be digitized by the Presidential Library
The Presidential Library will convert into digital form, making available to the general public, newspapers of the first years of the Soviet power, and the White-Guard émigré periodicals. According to the agreement with the library of the Academy of Sciences, the state-level repository of information resources on the history and development of the Russian statehood is preparing to take for digitization microfilms of newspapers’ double-page spreads issued after the October Revolution.
Rare shots of the arctic newsreel on the Presidential Library’s website
The Presidential Library continues to demonstrate the unique newsreel footage on the occasion of important historical events and dates.
The Day of the Arctic in the Presidential Library
International conference-webinar "Day of the Arctic in the Presidential Library," was one of the key scientific and educational activities on the development of the northern territories.
Advanced technologies and standardization of documents digitization discussed at the Presidential Library
Facilities and experience of the Presidential Library can be used to develop public standards for digitizing documents. This was announced on February 27 at the conference, during which at the Presidential Library were presented innovative technology of conversion of materials in electronic digital form.
Leningrad Region projects presented in the Presidential Library
In the town of Kommunar, Leningrad Region, it is planned to create the first Russian Museum of Paper. The project was presented at the Presidential Library during the closing ceremony of the Baltic Media school.