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Developing the library network in postcommunist Russia: Trends, issues, and perspectives

Zverevich, Victor

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Title
Developing the library network in postcommunist Russia: Trends, issues, and perspectives
Author(s)
Zverevich, Victor
Issue Date
2014
Keyword(s)
  • Central and Eastern Europe--Libraries
  • Russia--Libraries
  • History of Libraries
  • Post-Communism Development
Abstract
This paper discusses trends in library network development in Russia over the past twenty-five years. The major trends in libraries of various types and levels, from national to local public libraries, are analyzed. Statistical figures reflecting decreasing numbers of libraries in Russia from 1991 to the present are presented and analyzed. A special section is dedicated to the B. N. Yeltsin Presidential Library in St. Petersburg, the electronic national library of Russia. The public library development strategy in St. Petersburg is highlighted, along with the reform of the network of public libraries in Moscow. The two most recently renovated libraries in Moscow, the F. M. Dostoevsky Library and the Prospekt Library and Information Center, are featured. The major directions for Russian libraries desiring to go “green” are presented, along with the conditions they are to meet.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89811
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2014.0039
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Copyright (2014) Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 63 (2) Fall 2014: Libraries in a Postcommunist World: Part 1 PRIMARY
Library Trends 63 (2) Fall 2014: Libraries in a Postcommunist World: Part 1. Edited by Hermina G.B. Anghelescu.