Russian State Library

IFLA Standing Committee on Acquisition and Collection Development

Mid-term meeting, March 3-5 2010
Russian State Library, Moscow

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In attendance at this seminar were approximately 50 librarians representing several Russian libraries including the Scientific Electronic Library (Moscow); State Public Historical Library (Moscow); Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library (Saint Petersburg); National Library of Russia (Saint Petersburg); Library for Foreign Literature (Moscow); Russian State Children’s Library (Moscow); and the Library for Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). 

10.00–10.15Greetings by Dr. Victor Fedorov, president of the Russian State Library
10.15–10.45Digital future of national libraries – by Dr Alexander Visly, general director of the Russian State Library
10.45–11.15Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library: the lines of development – by Elena Zhabko,  deputy director for information resources
11.15–11.30Coffee break
11.30–12.00Scientific Electronic Library eLIBRARY.RU: Russian Journals Full-text Database plus National Science Citation Index – by Pavel Arefiev, director on marketing, Scientific Electronic Library, Ltd
12.00–12.30Questions and Answers
12.30–13.30Lunch time
13.30–14.10U.K. legal Deposit in the digital age: Organisational and operational challenges – by Sharon Johnson, Head of Collection Development Implementation, British Library
14.10–14.50Foreign acquisitions in a national library – challenges and choices – by Johannes Rudberg, Division Manager, Foreign Literature Division, National Library of Sweden
14.50–15.30Building up Digital Collections at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – by Susanne Maier, Acquisition Coordinator, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz
15.30–15.45Coffee break
15.45–16.15

 

University of North Carolina initiative on digitization of Andre Savine сollection of Russian émigré – by Nadia Zilper, Department Head. Global Resources and Area Studies Collection Development, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (to be delivered in Russian)
16.15–17.15Questions and Answers