the national digital library has launched a new online resource called “books”. Specifically for the platform has already been digitized about eight thousand manuscripts and books, and the same open access will spread in the course of the year. Digital collection formed in the framework of the national project “Culture”, reports channel “Russia 24”.
“a literary monument is just very curious. This emotional experience is comparable to looking at one or another scenic masterpiece, — says Mikhail Seslavinsky, head, Federal Agency for press and mass communications, Chairman of the National Union of bibliophiles. – Of course, a lot depends on how we can emotionally engage the young”.
“Whatever the large national libraries, whatever the funds, but this work is impossible without regional libraries. And it is very important that in this we are supported by the Ministry. We work very closely with the community, because the definition of the cultural value of publications is absolutely impossible without a deep understanding of the local context, — said General Director of the Russian state library (RSL) Vadim Duda. — This year “Leninka” will actively engage regional library. We have a significant budget, which were subsidized by the Ministry of culture, and therefore without the broad participation of the library community of this full work, of course, will not succeed.”
