The Presidential Library is developing a regional network in the Penza Oblast

Official opening of a remote electronic reading room of the Presidential Library took place today, February 28, 2017, in Kuznetsk. The building of the Kuznetsk Central City Library named after A. N. Radischev accommodates the premises of the remote reading room. Launching a remote access center is one of the results on the implementation of cooperation agreement between the libraries, which was signed on August 26, 2016.

Owing to the new remote electronic reading room of the Presidential Library the local residents and guests of oblast will get an access to the digital copies of unique audio and video materials, archive documents, rare book editions from the library fund, which currently numbers more than 500 thousand units. In turn, the Presidential Library stock was replenished with electronic copies of rare books and materials from the collection of the Kuznetsk Central City Library named after A. N. Radischev.

It stands to mention that the cooperation of the Presidential Library and the Penza Oblast is actively developing. Signed on the 14th of May 2013 agreement between the library and the regional administration contributes to the development of joint educational and cultural projects, an exchange with experience, a strengthening of the public awareness of the statehood, citizenship and patriotism. Currently, a regional center of the Presidential Library is already launched and successfully operates on the basis of the Penza Oblast Library named after M. Y. Lermontov.

An establishment and development of cooperation with the regions is one of the priorities of the Presidential Library. In 2016, it completed the creation of a unified regional network of centers of access to the resources of the Presidential Library, which brings together all 85 regions of our country. In addition, the Presidential Library has completed a formation of electronic collections focused on the development of all the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Thus, there is the collection in open access, which includes the electronic copies of archival documents, the essays, the studies and statistical data, covering the demographic, geographic, socio-economic, political and other aspects of the history of the Penza Oblast from the end of XVIII to the first third of XX century. Also, the Charter of Penza Oblast in force is included in the collection.