Presidential Library participates in International Conference "Central Asia – 2025"

The Presidential Library is taking part in the XVIII International Conference Central Asia - 2025: Internet and Information and Library Resources in Science, Education, Culture and Business. The event will be held on 15-17 May 2025 in Fergana. The conference is organised by the Alisher Navoi National Library of Uzbekistan.

The conference is attended by international experts, directors of libraries, heads and specialists of information-resource and information-library centres, specialists of archives, museums, scientists, teachers of educational institutions, specialists in the field of information and communication technologies, public figures, representatives of ministries and departments.

The main objectives of the event are:

- increasing the reading culture of young people in the era of information technologies by disseminating advanced methods and means of learning;

- promoting effective exchange of experience in the creation of electronic information resources, information and library systems and their use in information and library institutions, educational institutions, archives and museums;

- promoting the creation of associations/consortia for the joint use of information and library (primarily electronic) resources, organisation of training centres for the training of new information technologies in the field of information and library science;

- intensification of activities of information, library and educational institutions in the direction of wider use of the possibilities of the Internet, electronic databases, provision of open access to information resources and formation of their content;

- opportunities and features of development of cognitive management and artificial intelligence in information and library institutions.

The Presidential Library has been developing co-operation with the Eurasian Library Assembly since 2009, right after its foundation. Today the Presidential Library's international cooperation in the Eurasian space is realised in different directions. Among them are resource exchange, formation of country studies collections, popularisation of the Presidential Library's collection in the CIS countries. The Presidential Library's portal has published collections dedicated to each of the CIS countries. These are available at Russia and Countries of the World section.. The digital collection Eurasia - Our Home is also available there.

One of the significant joint projects of the Presidential Library and LAE was the documentary film Library Front. 1941-1945, which tells about the contribution of the USSR libraries to the victory over fascism. The film was given to all libraries of the Commonwealth and posted on the Presidential Library's website.

Dmitry Kosenko, Senior Methodologist of the Presidential Library, will tell the conference participants about the new joint project of the Presidential Library and the Eurasia Library Assembly "Poems of Victory" dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The initiative to create a media resource "Poems of Victory" was put forward by Director General of the Presidential Library Yuri Nosov at the XXVII General Meeting of the LAE members held in Minsk when discussing the plan of events timed to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. As part of the project, representatives of LAE member libraries recorded poems by their national poets dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. The premiere of the resulting 40-minute media resource "Poems of Victory" will take place at the end of May at the All-Russian Library Congress in Izhevsk.

The Presidential Library has also initiated a digital project Librarians - Soldiers of Victory in order to preserve the memory of the war heroism of the USSR librarians. The project is designed for five years, until 2030, and is divided into two stages. During the first stage, which was launched in late April, it is planned to collect materials about librarians - front-line soldiers, and during the second stage - to form a digital collection and publish it on the Presidential Library's portal. Libraries of the CIS countries of different levels and departmental affiliation are invited to participate in the project.

To learn more about the project "Librarians - Soldiers of Victory", please visit: https://www.prlib.ru/en/project/bibliotekari-soldaty-pobedy.