26 May 2010 the Russian State Library hold a seminar for 15 representatives of the largest libraries of Cheliabinsk, Kostromskaya, Irkutsk, Vologodskaya and Archangelsk regions, and also for the representatives of the republic of Komi. The seminar was devoted to the questions of using the resources of the Digital Dissertation Library of the RSL within the territory of mobile complexes of information and library service (KIBO).The named complexes were set up by Foundation Pushkin Library as a part of the federal special - purpose programme “Culture of Russia 2006—2011”.

The seminar was started by the greeting word of Director general of the RSL Alexander Visly.

The staff members of the Department of Support of Access to Digital Resources gave speeches on digital resources and new services provided by the RSL.

The coordinator of the project of DDL RSL O.Chemodanova spoke about the Russian State Library, its work. She also gave statistics on development and introduced prospects of the project Digital Dissertation Library of the RSL. She described the main opportunities of the system for safe document viewing DefView, and gave a master class on work with software DefView in real time.

The chief expert of the project “Open Digital Dissertation Library of the RSL” M.Sergeyuk presented a report on the stages of development of the ODDL and gave details on the rules for authors who want to transmit their works to the collection of the Open Digital Dissertation Library of the RSL.

The chief expert of the project of DDL RSL T.Blinova reported on the subject “Anti–plagiarism. Testing texts against plagiarism using the collection of the Digital Dissertation Library of the RSL”. She spoke about the stages of development of the project “Anti–plagiarism”, and also how to make an inquiry and to sign a contract in order to check a work against plagiarism using the DDL RSL. Besides, she described the document with the results of the check the inquirer receives in the end.

For towns and villages and other places which don‘t possess stationary libraries of their own, work with the Digital Dissertation Library of the RSL within the territory of mobile complexes of information and library service is a unique chance to get access to the priceless knowledge in all the subjects and branches.

We highly appreciate professionalism in work of the staff members of the Department of Support of Access to Digital Resources, and we are grateful to the directors of the Foundation "Pushkinskaya Library" for the opportunity to provide access to modern scientific knowledge for the citizens of distant corners of our country.