The delegation of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan at the Russian State Library 20.07.2014
 
15 – 19 July 2014 the representatives of the Central Library and the Centre of Information Resources of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan visited the Russian State Library. Their aim was getting consultations of the specialists of the RSL on diverse matters connected with organization of library work and providing services for its readers, work of automated systems, digitization and preservation of rare and valuable editions, library cooperation with different international associations, etc.
17 July 2014, there were organized meetings of the representatives of the Azerbaijan delegation with different subdivisions of the RSL Complex of Information Technologies where the following problems were discussed:
– Library CRM — software tools and modules;
– Principles of work and integration of equipment into automated library systems;
– Peculiarities of digitization and preservation of rare and valuable editions;
– Providing services for readers. Registration of readers and forming policy of access to resources.
The information for the latter matter was organized as a presentation prepared by the head of the RSL Administrative department of management and monitoring service for clients N.V. Avdeeva. Ms Avdeeva spoke on the existing collections of the Digital Library of the RSL and work of the electronic catalogue. A special attention was drawn to the Digital Dissertation Library of the RSL and rules of work with it, for the resource was available for the Azerbaijan people from the territory of the Azerbaijan National Library named after M.F. Akhundov. In addition, the speaker described services provided by the RSL for remote users via the Internet store of the RSL.
Together with the useful information acquired at the consultations, the officials of the Azerbaijan delegation got an invitation from A.I. Visly, the director general of the RSL, for the Central Library of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan to enter the Library Assembly of Eurasia, which would open for the library prospects of joining the united electronic environment of library members of the Assembly.