Participation in the conference “Info-Communicational Technologies in Regional Development” 09.02.2009

From 5 to 6 February, the 2nd Annual Inter-Regional Research and Practical Conference “Info-Communicational Technologies in Regional Development” was held in Smolensk.

Among the participants there were representatives of federal and regional governmental structures, local authorities, business structures and public commumity, scientific, educational and culture institutions, as well as mass media delegates.

At the plenary session at the Administration of the Smolensk region, the informatization director Alexander Visly gave a speech on the topic ”Russian National Libraries in the Information Space”. He covered the issues of the development of information technologies and their impact on the national libraries of the Russian Federation; he also suggested the plans of possible development of the national libraries by means of introducing computer technologies into their traditional activities.
 
Within the framework of the conference at Smolensk Regional Liberal A.T.Tvardovsy Library, head manager of the DDL RSL project Nina Avdeeva spoke on the subject of “Digital Dissertation Library of the Russian State Library”. She discoursed on the history of the project, its aims, and its development; then she presented the main statistics of its work. The other matter of her talk was the development of the new software for protected document viewing – “DefView” – quite urgent since the changes of the Copyright legislation had taken place.