The Presidential Library stock is added with rare editions of the Tambov Oblast

The Presidential Library in 2017 created 218 digital copies of especially valuable sources courtesy of several fund holders of the Tambov Oblast. These rare entries will add to the Presidential Library stock, some of them will be featured on the website.

“With the benefit of this project of the Presidential Library, within the short period of time, an array for digitization was selected, a scanning is complete, high-quality digital analogues of rare and especially valuable editions received, and an important mission on preserving old books of large and great formats was carried out, —the head of the Department of Culture and Archives of Tambov Oblast Yuri Golubev stressed out. — An efficiency, a quality, a clarity in working with partners were following through all active cycles and processes of interaction with the responsible staff of the Presidential Library in the course of our teem work.”

Among the rarities handed over to the Presidential Library are sets of newspapers “Tambov Gubernsky Vedomosti” (lit. provincial gazette) of 1838—1851, “Tambov Krai” of 1914—1916, “Narodnaya Niva” (lit. native field of grain) of 1915, “Vestnik (lit. reporter) of the Tambov Provincial Administration Department” of 1919, “Tambov Izvestiya” (lit. news) of 1922, “Michurinskaya Pravda” (lit. Michurinsk truth) of 1945, as well as regional newspapers of the war years “Za Kommunizm” (lit. for Communism), “Bolshevitsky Put” (lit. the Bolshevik way), “Za Urozhay” (lit. for harvest), and many others. The “Progressivnoye Sadovodstvo” (lit. progressive gardening and truck farming” magazine of 1909 was digitized as well.

The Presidential Library continues to develop cooperation with the administration of the Tambov Oblast, an agreement on cooperation with which was concluded in 2012. Regional center of the Presidential Library is established on the basis of the Scientific Library named after A. S. Pushkin, there are also three more freestanding remote electronic reading rooms with an open access to the materials from the unique Presidential Library fund, which currently numbers about 600,000 entries.