Virtual Reading Room of the Russian State Library

Annual Caucus of Heads of Federal and Central Regional Libraries of Russia

Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Library and the National Library of Russia organized the Annual Caucus of Heads of Federal and Central Regional Libraries of Russia which took place 28–29 November in Moscow. The theme of the sessions of 2023 was “Creating successful future for libraries in collaboration – developing branch projects, cooperation and integration, and exchanging best practices”.

Speeches and discussions of the meeting were all focused on the general matters of library life, that including problems of acquisition, personnel policy and professional training, as well as issues of work with users and principal aspects of inter-departmental cooperation. There were also dealt with such specific sides of library life of nowadays as digitalization, research work in libraries and peculiarities of integration of libraries of the new territories of Russia into its common library environment.

Videos are available on the YouTube channel of the Russian State Library.