Saturday, December 20, 2008

Russian State Library is now on the Net

The most famous library in Russia - Russian State Library has created the largest in Europe, the repository of digitized books. The statement was made by Director General of the RSL Victor Fedorov.

According to him, the virtual library, which was created as a result of the implementation of the National Electronic Library, is equal to 162 terabytes. This is approximately three million books.

In this store are the most rare books: books and manuscripts, periodicals and sheet music that had been collected from all major Russian libraries, including the presidential library and electronic library of theses.

Currently digitized 350 theses, which can be found by registering on the site. While registration for the Internet user must have a library card. But you can enter under a guest account.