On Monday afternoon and evening there will be a possibility to see Peterhof - the beautiful suburb of St. Petersburg - and all Saint-Petersburg.
Later that day we are glad to invite you to the Dinner in the restaurant “Podvorye” located in the town of Pavlovsk, 30 km from St Petersburg, near the main entrance to Pavlovsky Park.
On Tuesday we prepared an excursion to the State Hermitage Museum.
On Wednesday there will be an full-day excursion to Velikiy Novgorod.
That evening the Annual reception and dinner will take place in the restaurant “Detinets” located in the 14th century Pokrovskaya tower of the Novgorod Kremlin.
Transport to and from social events
Coach transport is provided for all events of the Conference. These coaches will all have a sign behind their front-window saying “IALL”.
There will be two coaches, scheduled to pick-up participants from the Law Faculty of the St. Petersburg State University, the hotel Pribaltiyskaya and all excursions’ places.
Participants are kindly requested to stay on the same coach throughout the day to make sure that nobody will be left behind.
Saint-Petersburg libraries visits
(Thursday, September 14th)On Thursday, September 14th, group visits are arranged to three famous St. Petersburg libraries: the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian National Library and the Main Library of St. Petersburg State University. Composition of the groups is based on the wish of all participants expressed in their registration forms.
The Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: 1, Birzhevaya Liniya, St. Petersburg 199034
The Library was established by the order of Peter the Great in 1714. Three book collections - the Library of Pharmacological Chancery, kept in Summer Palace; the Library of Curland Dukes (books from different Baltic provinces received as a present from Anna Ioannovna, the Duchess of Curland) and Gottorp Library - formed the initial collection of the Library.
The Library was opened in 1718. It had been the first state library in Russia and the only public library until 1814 when the Imperial Public Library was opened. In 1725 the Library became a part of the Academy of Sciences. It was allocated in the building specially built for the Academy of Sciences, the Library and Kunstkammer, which was situated on the bank of Neva.
The first director of the library was Robert Areskin the physician-in-ordinary of Peter I, the first librarian being councilor I. D. Shumacher. Among well-known academicians who worked in the Library were M. V. Lomonosov, G. F. Miller, S. K. Kotel’nikov, F. I. Shubert, F. B. Grefe.
The Library is a leading scientific institution in such fields as librarianship, bibliography, information science, bibliology, scientific description of manuscripts, conservation and restoration of documents, safety of libraries and archives.
The stock of the Library includes various collections: Foreign books, Russian books, Slavic collection, manuscripts, rare books, cartographic, reference-bibliographical books, newspapers, patents, materials in Asian and African languages, microforms, emigration literature, literature on library science and bibliography. The Library has been receiving a deposit copy from the Academic printing house since 1746 and a deposit copy of every item printed in Russia — since 1793.
Total collection of the Library includes more than 19 521 000 items, including over 8 387 000 magazines and 26 000 titles of newspaper. Besides, there are some 18 000 manuscripts and 250 000 rare books. The collection of special items (e.g. accounts, standards, catalogues, translations of invention descriptions, maps etc.) numbers more than 669 000 units of issue, while microfiches and microfilms — more than 213 000 items. Bibliographic reference department stores over 300 000 editions (encyclopedias, reference books, dictionaries, bibliographical publications on different branches of science and engineering in Russian and foreign languages, printed catalogues published by foreign libraries).
Exchange stock includes more than 1 117 000 items.
Being one of the world’s largest libraries, the Library of the Russian Academy of Science was historically formed as a centralized system: nowadays it consists of the Central Library and a network of 31 special scientific libraries at scientific institutions of St. Petersburg. The Central Library collections are universal while the affiliated libraries mainly collect literature on respective sciences.
The Library includes several special divisions that carry out research work. They are: Department for Rare Books; Department for Editions of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Department for Bibliography and Library Sciences; Department for Conservation of Documents. Other departments also do scientific work, which is related to their activity.
The Library provides its services to all scientists and scholars regardless of where they work. BAN serves more than 19 million readers every year. There are 14 reading rooms in the Central library: the main reading room; manuscripts reading room; rare books reading room; a room of current periodicals; the exhibition of recent acquisitions; Slavonic collection reading room; a room of Academy collection; Russian emigration literature reading room; a room for literature of Asian and African countries; a room for reading books on library science; a reference literature room; a room for reading cartographic materials; a room for reading microfilms. The network libraries also have their own reading rooms.
Bibliographic access is via several basic catalogues: the so-called Readers’ Alphabetical and Classified Catalogue; the General Alphabetic Catalogue (which includes the Slavonic catalogue) and the Foreign Alphabetic Catalogue. In addition, there is a number of specialized catalogues for specific reading rooms.
As a result of a great fire in February 1998 Library collections were seriously damaged. Nearly 300 000 editions were destroyed by fire and about 3 million items got wet. A large part of the lost items was renewed.
Using new information and library technologies, the Library is entering the world information space. In February 1997, an access to the Internet was provided and a special information room was opened where the readers can have free access to the Web and foreign databases. At the same time, a special Internet room was opened to provide contacts with other libraries all over the world.
The Library is a member of IFLA, it contacts with UNESCO and other international organizations, the largest libraries, information and restoration centers of the world.
To find out time and place of the meeting for Library visit, see Conference Programme.
The Russian National Library
Address: 1/3, Ostrovsky Square, St. Petersburg
http://www.nlr.ru/eng/
The history of the National Library of Russia begins with its foundation on 27 May 1795 and considers more than two hundred years. The history of the country during these two centuries covers many different periods: eras of Catherine the Great, Alexander I, Nicholas I, the major reforms, which took place in the 1850s, the February Revolution of 1917, and the October Revolution, the World War II. All events and the changed conditions of Russian life inevitably affected life in the Library.
The National Library of Russia in Saint Petersburg is among the greatest treasures in the country's cultural and historical heritage. One of the world's largest libraries, it possesses the most complete collection of publications in Russian. Special attention is traditionally paid to the acquisition of foreign works about Russia and publications in languages of the Russian Federation printed in different countries of the world. The Library also builds as comprehensively as possible the multi-language collection of literature on key branches of science and technology.
Today the National Library of Russia houses more then 34.5 million items, of which 6.2 million items are in foreign languages.
The manuscripts held by the National Library of Russia comprise of over 1300 private archives and collections that today number more than 450 000 valuable items for all periods and countries. The chronological span of the collections is from the 10th century before Christ (papyruses from Ancient Egypt) to the present day.
The National Library's collection of incunabula (books printed before 1501) is the largest in Russia.
To find out time and place of the meeting for Library visit, see Conference Programme.
The Main Library of St. Petersburg State University
Address: 7/9, Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg, 199034
http://www.lib.pu.ru/eng/index.html
The Scientific Library of St. Petersburg State University is one of the oldest and largest university libraries in Russia. It also serves a monument of the national enlightenment, science and culture. By the richness and variety of its stacks, it ranks among the most prominent libraries in the world. According to the University Charter, the Scientific Library (together with its faculties and research institutes) is one of the main structural departments of the St. Petersburg State University.
The central stacks of the university library are situated in the main building of St. Petersburg University - the Twelve Collegiums - which is a monument of St. Petersburg architecture of the eighteenth century constructed by Domenico Trezzini. The library was accommodated in this building in 1891 on a total floor space of 3900 sq. meters.
It stock runs to 6,7 million copies and near 1,5 million titles. The library collection is divided between basic scientific stock and libraries of the University faculties. Library includes Central Scientific library and 19 faculty departments. It has near 65 thousand current users; more the 43 thousand of them are students. The personnel of SPU Library numbers to 330 persons.
During the past decade, developments in university library were heavily influenced by new technologies in information and computers. Since March 1995 library has created the electronic catalogue, which is now available via Internet. Since 1997, Library has got Internet access and library home page http://www.lib.pu.ru. One of the most important directions of the Library Plan of the Strategic Development is the creation and development of the “Electronic Library” of St Petersburg State University. Today one of the important features of the present-day library community is development of library consortiums. St. Petersburg State University is member of National Electronic Information Consortium (NEICON) and Association of Regional Library Consortiums (ARBICON).
The most valuable – due to its historical and cultural importance - part of the collection is accumulated in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Department. The collection of rare books and manuscripts numbers about one thousand Slavic and Western-European manuscripts and more than 50 thousand rare books.
The Scientific Library of St. Petersburg State University is the scientific-methodological (regional) center for the university academic libraries of the Northwest region of Russia (70 libraries). It consults, holds seminars and conferences and organizes apprenticeship for the library managers and staff on different issues of library practice. The Scientific Library of St. Petersburg University carries out the work on forming and using information resources for university community within the frame of national and international programs and projects. The Scientific Library is an active member of professional library associations: St. Petersburg Library Society, Russian Library Association, LIBER, IFLA.
To find out time and place of the meeting for Library visit, see Conference Programme.