The State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian branch of the RAS (Novosibirsk)
The State Public Scientific Technological Library (SPSTL) belonging to the Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, is one of the oldest in Russia. It was established in 1918 in Moscow, in 1958 moved to Novosibirsk. The SPSTL SB RAS is a public library of comprehensive scope. The impressive size of its collections – 14 million printed items -makes the SPSTL SB RAS one of the largest libraries of Russia and the world. The SPSTL’s collections are especially strong in research and instructional literature, as well as in materials pertaining to the problems of industrial production, about 25 percent of editions in a language other than Russian. The universal character and comprehensiveness of the collection rank it as the main resource for information provision of science, industry and culture of Siberia. The SPSTL is a copyright depository, it receives all kinds of documents including patents which arrive at the Library in quantities equal to those received by the Federal Technical Patent Library in Moscow. By the size of its collection and other basic characteristics, the SPSTL SB RAS can be compared to the Russian National Library (St.-Petersburg) and the Russian State Library (Moscow). The Library’s collection of rare books and manuscripts stands a significant monument of the history and culture of Russia. Due to its uniqueness and comprehensiveness, this collection is considered an insurance of national memory of the Russian people. Books and manuscripts collected in archeographic expeditions in Siberia and the Far East constitute the core of the rare books collection. In 1992 the SPSTL opened its Book Museum. Source: http://www.spsl.nsc.ru/en/o-biblioteke/biblioteka- segodnya/
Website: http://www.spsl.nsc.ru/
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Проект выполняется при поддержке Российского Научного Фонда, проект № 22-18-00295 «Электронная библиотека арабографичных рукописей из архивных, библиотечных, музейных и частных собраний России»