Russian State Library of the RSL

The Russian State Library was created by presidential decree in 1992 on the basis of the V.I. Lenin State Library of the USSR, and is its successor.

The library is a national repository of the national library fund and other documents, has a universal fund of dissertation works in all branches of knowledge, except for medicine and pharmacy. The manuscript fund of the library is an integral part of the Archive Fund of the Russian Federation.

The RSL is classified as a particularly valuable object of national heritage and is the property of the peoples of Russia. Within the walls of the Russian State Library is a unique collection of domestic and foreign documents in 367 languages ​ ​ of the world; its fund exceeds 43 million storage units (November 2010). There are specialized collections of maps, notes, sound recordings, rare books, dissertations, newspapers and other types of publications.

The library provides the right to use its reading rooms to all citizens of Russia and other states who have reached the age of 18. About 200 new readers sign up here every day. Almost 4 thousand people come to the RSL every day, and virtual reading rooms located in 80 cities of Russia and neighboring countries serve more than 8 thousand visitors every day.

History

2020

Why does the Russian State Library teach the car to read newspapers?

The meeting in one project The Russian state of the library (RSL) and Schools 21"," where IT specialists are being trained on an innovative educational method, has become truly happy: tasks from the field of working with library funds, which are unusually relevant for RSL, are ideal for honing the skills of students "School 21." This meeting took place during a hackathon organized by the RSL at the site of School 21 on November 28-29, 2020. More details here.

It will take 2 thousand years to digitize the entire Leninka Foundation: General Director of the RSL Vadim Duda - about the digital transformation of the library

In the minds of many, libraries are associated with huge archives of paper books and documents, paper catalogs, reading rooms. But in recent years, digitalization, which has already affected, perhaps, almost all industries, has covered this traditionally "paper" sphere. How one of the largest libraries in the world - the Russian State Library (Leninka) - fits into the new digital reality, said its general director Vadim Duda and deputy director for digitalization Mikhail Shubin in an interview with TAdviser deputy editor-in-chief Natalya Lavrentieva. Read more here.