World Digital Library (WDL): Under the Auspices of the Library of Congress and UNESCO

Савицкая, Татьяна Евгеньевна

doi:10.25281/0869-608x-2018-67-3-299-307

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2018

DOI: 10.25281/0869-608x-2018-67-3-299-307

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World Digital Library (WDL): Under the Auspices of the Library of Congress and UNESCO

Татьяна Евгеньевна Савицкая¹

Abstract: Международный контент У становление новой информационной парадигмы электронных библиотек в США было бы неполным без оригинальной версии мультиязычной Всемирной цифровой библиотеки (World Digital Library, WDL) с ее интернациональным контентом и широчайшей программой международного сотрудничества. Достаточно необычно уже то, что технологическое лидерство в сфере информатизации знания в данном случае не сопровождается негласными преференциями Татьяна Евгеньевна Савицкая, Российская государственная библиотека, Цен… Show more

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Million Book Project — Vivid Example of International Cooperation

Savitskaya

2019

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The article analyses the conceptual idea, stages of formation, organizational and technological features of the Million Book Project. This is the original version of the multilingual full-text electronic library, the first stage of the more extensive program of Universal Digital Library. The aim of the project was to digitize one million books by 2007 and to provide free access to them. The project is interesting, firstly, as an early productive experience in creating a compact electronic library to optimize the educational process, and secondly, as an example of broad effective international cooperation in organization of information resources. The collection was based on “Books for College Libraries”, which is a special collection of educational scientific literature (50,000 titles), electronic copies of which were provided by the non-profit, membership, computer library service OCLC (Online Computer Library Center). The author considers the Project as an original model of international division of labour in the development of library information resources, when the scanning centres in India and China took over most of the work on digitization of books, including from the United States, and the Carnegie Mellon University, in cooperation with other American Universities, provided them with the necessary equipment and staff training. The Million Book Project is based on the original full participation, along with the library of Carnegie Mellon University and libraries of other American universities, of digital collections of India, China and Egypt. One of the strengths of the project is cooperation with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), aimed at combating hunger, as well as with the National Agricultural Library of the United States in digitizing specialized literature on the modernization of agricultural, forestry and fish farming practices. The article also notes the significance of the project in the field of organizational and technological solutions related to the formation of the electronic library: it served as a test base for applied research in the field of improving scanning techniques, optical character recognition and automatic translation. The important advantage of the Million Book Project is the ultimate decentralization of powers in the field of acquisition of the collection, resulted in including into the project orbit of the unique monuments of history and culture of the East. The digitization and inclusion in the electronic library of the cultural treasures for the first time makes them potentially available to the global audience.

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Innovative Activities of National Libraries of the CIS Countries

Меньщикова

2020

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The article considers the results of study of current trends in the innovative activities of 15 national libraries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). In research, the author applied the methods of polling, comparative analysis, expert review, analysis of websites and printed sources in order to detect the promising areas for international library cooperation and partnership in the CIS. The author underlines the relevance of this research connected with the need to analyse the strategies of the CIS national libraries developed up to date. The article presents information on technology innovation, changing processes and reconfiguring products and services, as well as on organizational and management advanced innovation. The core programs of all national libraries of the CIS countries are focusing on e-library development, including coordination activities on the creation of national electronic libraries in the countries, full-text databases, as well as projects promoting international academic movement Open Access. The article presents the studies on scientific description and creation of soft copies of the unique national documentary monuments, as well as development of information portals and websites. Organizational and management innovation of national libraries of the CIS countries focuses on structural changes. These transformations promote creation of virtual reading rooms, electronic resource rooms, book and book-printing museums, as well as educational projects — training centres, including distance learning centres, and schools for conservation and restoration of manuscripts. Based on the analysis of empirical data, the author concludes that the priority innovative projects of national libraries cooperation are focused on provision of remote access to the most complete volume of document collections available in the CIS countries; these projects increase satisfaction of the needs of users of national libraries and the whole population in the relevant information.

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Million Book Project — Vivid Example of International Cooperation

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