Irkutsk residents will have the opportunity to use unique documents from the Presidential Library

Residents of the Irkutsk region will gain access to unique materials from the Presidential Library, from electronic copies of rare documents to resources on Russian history and the Russian language. The agreement signed at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum also provides for replenishing the librarys collections with regional materials and training specialists to work with electronic resources. The regional access center will continue operating at the Irkutsk Regional Library named after I. I. Molchanov-Sibirsky, where cooperation with the Presidential Library has been successfully developing for several years.

Residents of the Irkutsk Region will be able to use the unique documents of the Presidential Library. The cooperation agreement between the Presidential Library and the Government of the Irkutsk Region was signed by the Acting Governor of the Irkutsk Region, Sergei Eroshchenko, and the Director General of the Presidential Library, Alexander Vershinin. The agreement was signed during the 19th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, in which the head of the region is taking part.
Under the document, access to the information resources of the Presidential Library in the Irkutsk Region, in particular to electronic digital copies of works and documents from the Presidential Library’s collection on the history of Russia, the theory and practice of Russian statehood, and the Russian language as the state language of the Russian Federation, will be provided by the regional center. It will also make it possible to build up and continuously replenish the Presidential Library’s collection with information resources from the Irkutsk Region and to train specialists in the processing of information resources and user services according to the standards adopted by the Presidential Library.
As Acting Governor Sergei Eroshchenko noted, the Irkutsk Regional Library named after I. I. Molchanov-Sibirsky became the first library to sign a cooperation agreement with the B. N. Yeltsin Presidential Library in 2010 and to transfer a large body of its own digitized materials to its collection. Over the past five years, the libraries have cooperated fruitfully. In November 2014, with the participation of the Government of the Irkutsk Region, the Regional Center for Access to the Resources of the Presidential Library was opened at the IOGUNB, and specialists from the IOGUNB have repeatedly undergone internships on the creation and cataloging of electronic resources at the Presidential Library and have taken part in specialized scientific conferences. Therefore, the Regional Center for Access to the Resources of the B. N. Yeltsin Presidential Library in the Irkutsk Region will continue to operate on the basis of the Irkutsk Regional Library named after I. I. Molchanov-Sibirsky.
- The signing of the cooperation agreement at the level of the Government of the Irkutsk Region will take our relationship to a new level, will make it possible to more actively promote the information component related to the Irkutsk Region through the Presidential Library, and to increase the accessibility of unique materials for the region’s residents, - Sergei Eroshchenko emphasized.
During the meeting, Alexander Vershinin presented Sergei Eroshchenko with a reader’s card of the B. N. Yeltsin Presidential Library.