Webinar “Rare and Valuable Books. The Results of the Project”
December 10th, 2024, the RSL project office “Rare Books” organised a webinar devoted to the results of the six-year work.
Approximately 300 participants joined the event to get to know the latest news, share the experience, ask urgent questions and simply to thank all those people who was helping them on that long way of creating book history.
Tatyana Sidorova, head of the RSL project office "Rare Books" Department of Registering and Digitising Rare and Valuable Books, started the meeting by summing up the results of the works actually performed. She considered certain organisational aspects of implementation of Federal Project “Digital Culture” in digitisation of rare books, mentioned the goals set and achieved, the statistics on the participants and documents, etc. Then there was demonstrated the speech by the adviser of the direction board of the RSL, chair of the RSL expert council and of the working group on including rare and valuable books into the National Digital Library Natalia Samoylenko.
After that, the delegates of the participant organisations shared their impressions, considered the milestones of their own work on the project, and conveyed their hopes and personal records.
The online event was terminated by the officials of the Russian State Library Irina Rudenko, Olga Smelova and Elina Selezniova.
The words of approval and gratitude were followed by the information that with the completion of the project there was no end for the actual work with the project materials. The new forms meant diverse activities in optimizing certain moments of arrangement within the framework of the National Digital Library (new thematic sections, the glossary, etc.), it would also mean the promotion of the collections of rare and valuable books beyond the National Digital Library too.
The project of digitising rare and valuable books had been launched in 2019. The years of its work witnessed the participants from 67 regions of Russia. And 48,000 rare and valuable books were all in all digitised.
All you would ever like to know about the rare and valuable book register can be found on the official website of the project at https://knpam.rusneb.ru. Come round, and you will certainly be impressed!
Welcome to watch the video of the meeting over here.