Employees of educational organizations of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug improve their skills at Presidential Library

From December 9th to December 20th, 2024, the Presidential Library will be training two groups of employees from educational organizations in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area within the framework of the additional professional development program titled Improving the Effectiveness of the Educational Process through the Use of Digital Resources at the Presidential Library. The training will take place full-time and will incorporate e-learning, distance learning technologies, and internships at the partner sites of the Presidential Library's Reserve Center in Moscow.

This professional development of educators is part of the action plan to utilize the information and educational resources of the Presidential Library within the Yamal-Nenets region for 2024-25, which was signed in February of this year.

A distinctive feature of the professional development program is its focus on practical experience and its connection to the students' direct professional activities in using digital educational resources to enhance the effectiveness of the learning process. Students in the program become familiar with the structure and search engine of the Presidential Library's portal, learning about the specifics of working in an electronic reading room and accessing library resources for reliable historical information. During their studies, they develop skills in organizing research work for schoolchildren and students, as library staff share their expertise on how to utilize these resources in education and organizing educational projects and patriotic events.

The students also study the experience of leading educational institutions in Moscow in using the digital resources of the Presidential Library for relevant topics. They are introduced to master classes, developments, and the algorithms of working in the electronic reading rooms of the Presidential Library.

It should be noted that the Presidential Library's resources are in high demand by society. QR codes linking to the library's information resources are included in unified history textbooks for high school students, and this initiative has been recognized as successful. The experience is now being expanded to other educational materials. The Presidential Library's portal features a large-scale electronic project called Presidential Library for Teachers: Teaching with Primary Source, which aims to provide teachers with methodological assistance when using primary sources in their lessons. The project's lessons on humanitarian subjects were created based on information resources from the Presidential Library, such as research, journalistic materials, archival documents, and visual and cartographic resources.

For the Presidential Library, interaction with the regions is a key area of activity. The library has a long-term partnership with the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area. In October 2013, an agreement was signed between the library and the government of the region. As part of this agreement, a regional center for accessing the resources of the Presidential Library was established in 2014 in Salekhard, based at the National Library of Yamal-Nents Autonomous Area. Today, there are 60 electronic reading rooms for the Presidential Library located in this region.

On the portal of the Presidential Library, a digital collection called Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area: Pages of History is available. This collection contains studies, statistical data, and archival documents from the second half of the 19th century that describe the administrative, socioeconomic, demographic, and ethnographic situations in the territories that make up the modern Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.