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DIRECTOR'S CORNER: Dr. Victor V.Fedorov - RSL
The Director=E2=80=99s corner is dedicated to directors and chief
executives=
of national libraries across Europe. Dr. Victor V. Fedorov, Director
of the Russian State Library, gives us a brief presentation of the
role and position of the RSL in Russia and more widely in Europe
"The intellectual treasures gathered by the Russian State Library
offer a unique and trusty op****tunity to hold knowledge; the Library
also offers a new vision of the world by providing permanent access to
learning and understanding of the developments within our society"
In Russia, the RSL offers access to the following special facilities
and collections:
The Universal Museum of Book, founded in the 1920s;
The Central Library of Armed Forces, founded in 1929;
An All-Russian collection of theses in all the fields of knowledge;
Exchange-and-reserved stock of 1,5 million items;
"Informcultura" science and information centre;
A collection of items on library science and biology;
The Centre of Oriental Literature with its collection of 700,000
do***ents;
An electronic collection of theses;
About 200 virtual reading halls, which have been opened in libraries
and educational institutions in around 70 cities up to now.
Additionally, the RSL carries out the mission of national libraries
which is to collect, preserve and give access to a universal
collection of items, presenting the knowledge ac***ulated by mankind."
Victor V. Fedorov
General Director of the Russian State Library
Candidate of Economic Science
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In Focus: The RSL presents the "Aeroflot History in posters"
Aeroflot - Russian Airlines =E2=80=93 celebrates its 85th anniversary. The
Russian State Library, along with the Russian State Archive of Social
and Political History, the Aeroflot Museum, the New Gallery Arts Fund
and the "Contact-Culture" publi****ng house presents a unique
exhibition featuring the history of Aeroflot in more than 60 posters.
The collection provides colourful anecdotes depicting Aeroflot=E2=80=99s
commercial and promotional campaigns over the years.
Aeroflot has become one of the most popular and successful commercial
airlines; it represents Russia=E2=80=99s entire historical air
trans****tatio=
n
industry. However, its definitive branding was only adopted in 1932
following a number of previous names: "Dobrolyot"
(=D0=94=D0=BE=D0=B1=D1=80=
=D0=BE=D0=BB=D1=91=D1=82),
"Rosavaikhim"
(=D0=A0=D0=BE=D1=81=D0=B0=D0=B2=D0=B8=D0=B0=D1=85=D0=B8=D0=BC)=
and "Aviakhim" (=D0=90=D0=B2=D0=B8=D0=B0=D1=85=D0=B8=D0=BC).
In the early days, the company not only trans****ted passengers but
also mail and cargo to new east and westbound routes. It also carried
out other more unusual tasks, including pest control! Rodents and
insects were used in Soviet propaganda as symbols of the "decaying
bourgeoisie", so the "fight against pests" had a double meaning. In
1925, The Society of Friends of Chemical Defence and Chemical
Industry, "Dobrokhim" set up by Leon Trotsky, merged with "Dobrolyot";
the main purpose was to "construct a reliable fence of toxic gas to
protect the new society"!
During the Khrushchev period however, the fence was lowered and the
psychological battle moved to a rather racy field; beautiful Russian
air attendants gradually replaced Politburo members on the covers of
the popular Ogonyok magazine.>/p>
"The =E2=80=98Aeroflot History in Posters=E2=80=99 exhibition has
considerab=
le value
because of its political nature" says Nina Baburina, arts critic,
researcher of the Russian State Library and Soviet period poster
expert. "Posters represent one of the most politically loaded genres
of fine arts and the chronological sequence of productions dedicated
to the =E2=80=98homeland wings=E2=80=99 represent an exceptional milestone
i=
n the art
of propaganda in Russia".
"It is very honourable and a fantastic op****tunity for a commercial
company of any scale and age to be part of an art exhibition" adds Lev
Koshlyakov, Deputy General Director of Aeroflot. "The collected
posters that are anchored in Russian history have brought back to the
surface an incredibly rich material of forgotten facts and milestones;
all these anecdotes give us the experience of a unique =E2=80=98aviation
carnival=E2=80=99".
Exhibition catalogue available in PDF format at:
http://www.pro-act.ru/aerof=
lothistory.pdf.
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In Depth: RSL OPAC =E2=80=93 3 million records in 200 languages!
Natalia N. Kasparova (Head of the Catalogue System Board) and Mikhail
E. Shvartsman (Head of the Computer Systems Research Department) tell
us more about the Russian State Library collections and their
incredible holdings.
"The OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) of the RSL contains
bibliographic information on rare and modern printed books,
periodicals, maps, music, electronic resources and other do***ents
=E2=80=93=
in total 3.8 million records" says Natalia. "The bibliographic records
give access to roughly 3 million titles in more than 200 languages
=E2=80=93=
Russian, of course, but also 80 languages within the Russian
Federation and 50 foreign languages. The material available in our
OPAC covers a vast chronological period, from the XVI to the XXI
century. The RSL electronic collections are available through the
"Electronic Library" option on www.rsl.ru site and through The
European Library Collections section."
Alongside the OPAC, the RSL provides other digital collections: "The
electronic collections of the RSL are mainly constituted by books
published in Russian during the USSR and Russia periods. There is also
a collection of 30.000 books issued during the XIX century and
published in European languages" adds Mikhail.
"This collection is stored on CD=E2=80=99s and we are planning to
incor****at=
e
it into the Electronic Library. Our main electronic collections were
set up via special projects, essentially financed by scientific or
humanitarian foundations."
"Here is a short list of those collections:
Memory of Russia =E2=80=93 19000 pages; pioneering Russian books of XV-XVI
c=
c
in Old Slavonic language;
Meeting at the Frontiers =E2=80=93 20000 pages; RSL/Library of Congress
join=
t
project on the digitization of do***ents dedicated to the history of
development of Alaska and Siberia;
Open Russian Electronic Library (OREL) =E2=80=93 15000 books, maps,
printed
and sheet music, and open-access theses.
Electronic Library of dissertations =E2=80=93 180000 theses;
Electronic library of limited access (for RSL visitors only) =E2=80=93
9000
items."
"The RSL doesn=E2=80=99t have any national programme of digitization; we
implement our own institutional programmes. Because of financial
restrictions, our OCR (Optical Character Recognition) activity is not
widespread We use instead batch recognition. PDF double-layered files
are created; the first layer is in "picture" format and the second is
the recognized text. This text, while not being seen by the end user,
is used in the search tool."
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In brief
EDLproject: the treasures behind the 67 new collections
More exposure through collection description translation
EDLPROJECT: THE TREASURES BEHIND THE 67 NEW COLLECTIONS
EDLproject was a targeted project funded by the European Commission
under the eContentplus Programme and coordinated by the German
National Library. The project started in September 2006 and was
successfully completed in February 2008.
In concrete terms, The European Library has benefited from a massive
boost of collection integration through EDLproject; the National and
University Library of Iceland for example presents an amazing
digitised collection of antique maps.The content of the collection is
based on the book Kortasaga =C3=8Dslands (A history of cartography of
Iceland) by Haraldur Sigur=C3=B0sson.
Selected material from the Photographs Catalogue of the National
Library of Ireland gives access to stunning images; while most of the
collections are historical, there are some contem****ary collections.
If you wish to know more about the 67 new collections now available
from the ****tal, we invite you to browse through the rich COLLECTIONS
of The European Library.
MORE EXPOSURE THROUGH COLLECTION DESCRIPTION TRANSLATION
The European Library collection descriptions are currently available
in English and in the native languages of the Full Participants. In an
effort to extend the multilingualism of the ****tal, Lizzy Komen from
The European Library Office will coordinate an ambitious task; to
provide truly multilingual collection descriptions in 27 languages by
July 2008, 35 languages by the end of 2008.
"There are various benefits to this translation task" underlines
Lizzy. First of all, end users will be able to understand better what
collections are about and what to expect. It will also help them
discover native resources held in other countries. Secondly, it will
assist the partner libraries in promoting access to their collections
and objects without stumbling on language barriers. Finally, there
will be an increase in multilingual content and therefore a better
exposure of The European Library to search engines like Google."
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