The Presidential Library hosted jubilee Academic Council meeting

The 20th Academic Council meeting took place at the Presidential Library in a face-to-face and distance format on December 17, 2021. The meeting participants who gathered in the Academic Council hall and took part in the videoconferencing mode in the cities of Arkhangelsk, Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg , Stavropol, Khabarovsk, Shenzhen (China) were presented a report on the activities of the council for the period of its existence since 2010.

A report on the main directions of modernization of information systems of the Presidential Library based on domestic hardware and software technological platforms was made by acting Director General of the Presidential Library Pavel Gennadievich Tereshchenko.

Doctor of Law, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation Lyudmila Konstantinovna Tereshchenko, representative of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, spoke about topical aspects of legal regulation of access to information in the context of digitalization.

The implementation of the decision taken at the joint meeting of the Academic Councils of National Libraries on June 23, 2021 was announced by the Director of Information Resources of the Presidential Library Elena Dmitrievna Zhabko.

The discussion was attended by Honorary Member of the Academic Council of the Presidential Library Alexander Pavlovich Vershinin, Chairman of the Academic Council of the Joint Russian-Chinese University Sergei Mikhailovich Shakhrai, Director General of the Russian State Library Vadim Valerievich Duda, Rector of the St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture Alexander Sergeevich Turgaev, Director of the Russian State Historical Archive Svetlana Viktorovna Shtukova, Deputy Director General for Research of the National Library of Russia Vladimir Rufinovich Firsov, Director of the Fundamental Library of the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia Natela Nodarievna Kvelidze-Kuznetsova.

The Academic Council devoted its regular meeting to discussing the issues of improving the information, analytical and technological support of the Presidential Library for the activities of state authorities in the Russian Federation.