The collections of the Russian State Library store 46.9 million accounting units. To find what you need, a whole system of catalogs has been created - the Unified Electronic Catalog, the Central Catalog System and the Card Catalogs of Specialized Funds.
Unified electronic catalog
Access to the electronic catalog
- from computers in the reading rooms (with the possibility of electronic ordering)
- from reader terminals on the marble staircase and in the lobby in front of Reading Room No. 2
- from any computer via the Internet (with the possibility of electronic ordering)
Electronic order
Based on the Classification System, a thematic search was implemented in the unified electronic catalog of the RSL. In other words, you are presented with a virtual systematic catalog based on the LBC bibliographic classification. The service simplifies the search process, allows you to quickly generate a list of publications on a specific topic, subject or heading, and also draws the user's attention to related branches of knowledge.
Central catalog system of the RSL
What can be found in it:
- Alphabetical catalog of books and abstracts in Russian from the 18th century to 1979.
- Alphabetical catalog of books in Russian from 1980 to 2002 editions.
- Alphabetical catalog of abstracts of dissertations in Russian from 1980 to 1999 editions.
- Alphabetical catalog of books in foreign European languages from the 18th century to 1979.
- Alphabetical catalog of periodicals and continuing publications in Russian. Reflects information about the fund of the RSL from the 18th century to 2009.
- Alphabetical catalog of periodicals and continuing publications in foreign European languages. Reflects information about the RSL fund from the 19th century to 2009.
- Systematic catalog of books. Reflects information about books published in Russian and foreign European languages from the 18th century to 2014.
- Systematic catalog of books. Reflects information about publications in the languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation (except Russian), Belarusian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Moldavian, Ukrainian and Estonian.
Access to the central directory system
- Alphabetical catalogs: RSL main building, 1st entrance, 2nd floor, room A-210
- Systematic catalogs and file cabinets: the main building of the RSL, 1st entrance, 4th floor, room B-206, hall of the General Systematic Catalogue.
Advantages:
- Reflected part of the publications received by the RSL before 2002, which has not yet been transferred to the electronic catalog
- Habitual part of readers search system in systematic catalogs
Disadvantages:
- The impossibility of remote search and electronic ordering, however, in the room where the alphabetical and systematic catalogs are located, visitors have 6 personal computers at their disposal with the ability to search and order in the electronic catalog
Card catalogs of specialized funds
Some of the publications from the collections of the RSL, which are not in the unified electronic catalog and in the central system of catalogs, can be found in the catalogs of specialized collections.Part of the funds of specialized departments is reflected in thematic electronic catalogs.
Alphabetical and systematic catalogs of specialized funds reflect the funds of the RSL by certain types of documents, information carriers and topics. The catalogs are administered by specialized departments and are located on the territory of the respective reading rooms.
Advantages and disadvantages
Advantages:
- reflect documents from a specific fund
- located directly in the corresponding reading room
Flaw: publications for the most part are not reflected in the unified electronic catalog and the central catalog system of the RSL
Art Publications Fund
Card alphabetical and systematic catalogs reflect information about domestic and foreign visual materials from the 18th century to the present.
Fund of Cartographic Publications
Card alphabetical and systematic catalogs reflect information about cartographic materials in Russian and foreign languages from 1700 to the present.Fund of printed music and sound recordings
Card alphabetical and systematic catalogs reflect information in Russian and foreign languages about musical publications from the middle of the 16th century to the present, about sound recordings - from the beginning of the 20th century to the present.Rare Books Fund (Book Museum)
Card alphabetical and systematic catalogs reflect information about books, periodicals and ongoing publications in Russian and foreign languages from the 15th century to the present.Manuscript Fund
Card catalogs reflect information about handwritten books of the 11th-20th centuries, as well as about archival materials, personal funds, collections and collections stored in the department of manuscripts.Fund of literature on book science, library science and bibliography
The catalogs reflect information about books, periodicals and continuing publications on the specified topics in Russian, other languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation and foreign European languages from 1812 to the present.Alphabetical and systematic card files of articles in Russian and foreign European languages on the subject of the fund (library science, bibliography, book science)
Newspaper Foundation
Card alphabetical catalogs reflect information about newspapers in Russian, in the languages of the peoples of the countries of the former USSR and foreign European languages from the 18th century to the present, about newspapers in other languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation (except Russian), in the languages of the peoples of Asia and Africa from the 19th to the 20th century.Dissertation Fund
Card alphabetical and systematic catalogs reflect information about dissertations in Russian in all branches of knowledge, except for medicine and pharmacy, from 1944 to the present.Fund of Literature of the Russian Diaspora
The catalogs reflect information about the publications of Russian authors published abroad from 1917 to the present.Card alphabetical and systematic catalogs of books
Card alphabetical catalog of periodicals and continuing publications
Fund of regulatory production publications
Card numbering catalog of normative production and practical publications. Reflects information about domestic standards from 1925 edition to the present.Card subject catalog of normative production-practical publications. Reflects information about domestic standards from 1925 to 2004.
Central Reference and Bibliographic Fund
Catalogs reflect information about encyclopedias and other reference books, bibliographic manuals published in the period from the 19th century to the present.Card alphabetical, systematic, subject catalogs in Russian and foreign languages
Central Subsidiary Fund of Current Periodicals
Card and electronic card indexes and indexes reflect information about current periodicals in Russian and foreign languages entering the funds of the RSL: the fund of current periodicals, the central main fund and special departments.Alphabetical registration file of journals received by the Central subsidiary fund of current periodicals:
- domestic - for the last two years,
- foreign for the current year.
Card file of new titles of domestic journals entering the RSL
Card systematic index of titles of domestic journals entering the RSL for the last five years
Database of domestic and foreign journals entering the RSL since 1998
Literature Fund "For Official Use"
The catalog reflects information about books, abstracts and periodicals with a restrictive stamp DSP (“For official use”) from the beginning of the 20th century to the present.Card systematic catalog in Russian
Fund of Literature in the Languages of the Peoples of Asia and Africa
The catalogs reflect information about documents in the languages of the peoples of Asia and Africa from the 16th century to the present.Card alphabetical catalogs of books, periodicals and continuing publications
Card systematic book catalogs
Card summary catalogs of books, periodicals and continuing publications in the languages of the peoples of Asian and African countries, stored in the collections of libraries in Moscow and other cities of Russia. Reflects information about documents published from 1954 to 2004.
AT Russian State Library operating since 2013 remote recording service for readers. You can enroll in the RSL and use the resources of the library without visiting its buildings on Vozdvizhenka and Khimki. All data necessary for registration can be sent by mail or via online access.
The RSL has been developing its electronic resources for several years: a multimillion-dollar book fund is being digitized, and dissertation library project, new virtual reading rooms are opening in the cities of Russia and abroad. Already today, digitized documents of the RSL, free from copyright, can be read anywhere in the world where there is Internet access.
Until 2013, publications and dissertations that were closed for free viewing and stored in the Russian State Library could only be read after receiving a library card at Vozdvizhenka or Khimki, or from the virtual reading rooms of the RSL opened in other libraries. The reader's card opened both regular access to the library's reading rooms and remote access to the RSL's electronic dissertation library.
Since 2013, any Internet user can become the owner of an RSL library card - just send the necessary documents by registered mail or send them by e-mail. When registering remotely, the user receives an electronic library card with a unique number, which gives access to the library services. For example, at the moment, readers can already work remotely with the dissertation library, and in the future, other library resources will become available to e-ticket holders.
In the future, by the number of the electronic ticket, you can get a plastic card for access to the reading rooms of the RSL. The remote recording service is valid for all Russian citizens over 18 years old, as well as for students of higher educational institutions who have not reached this age.
Source: http://www.rsl.ru/ru/news/2312132/
Registration on the RSL website
Registration on the RSL website provides access to some of the services of the RSL online store:
- Uploading documents using a dedicated channel;
- Copying documents from EB RSL;
- Acquisition of publications written off from the funds of the RSL;
- Acquisition of electronic copies of books published by Pashkov Dom;
The account is linked to an email address, the user's passport data is not required. Registration on the RSL website is the first step in registering with the RSL. If you received a ticket in a reader registration group, additional registration on the site is not required.
Library Enrollment
Registration in the library involves the creation of a library card of the RSL and the provision of access to:
- to the reading rooms of the library with the opportunity to order and receive books from the collections of the RSL;
- to all library services;
- to electronic resources, licensed databases and electronic versions of publications.
A library card is identified by a unique number and is issued for a period of five years.
When registering remotely in the library, an electronic library card is created. A plastic library card with a photo for access to the reading rooms of the RSL can be obtained upon a personal visit to the reader registration group.
Face-to-face recording is carried out in the reader's recording group. You will need original passport, higher education document or student card. Citizens of the Russian Federation for registration online fill out the registration card on the website. You will need electronic copies of your passport, higher education document or student ID and a bank card to verify your identity. Citizens of the Russian Federation for mailing records fill out and print out the reader registration card, make copies of the necessary documents and send them to the RSL by registered mail.
A single EC contains bibliographic records for all types of documents, including articles published in Russian and other languages, in various media and in various chronological periods.
You can search not only in a single directory, but also in separate directories, limiting the search to a specific type of document:
Catalog of books (editions from 1831 to the present)
It most fully reflects the receipt of books in Russian since 1980, in other languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation (except Russian) and foreign European languages from 2000 to the present. Books in Russian from 1831 to 1917 are reflected with relative completeness, books from other chronological periods and in foreign languages of the peoples of Asia and Africa are partially reflected.
Catalog of manuscripts
Reflects:
- index of funds of the department of manuscripts, including descriptions of funds (collections, archival funds, collections) of the department;
- catalog of handwritten books, including descriptions of handwritten books of the 11th-20th centuries. from the collections of the department of manuscripts.
Catalog of early printed books (editions from 1450 to 1830)
It most fully reflects the editions of the civil type of 1708-1800, as well as the editions of the Latin type of the 16th-17th centuries. The editions of civil type for 1801-1825 are reflected with relative completeness. and Cyrillic script of the 15th-19th centuries, partly - editions of other chronological periods.
Catalog of abstracts of dissertations
Reflects receipts of abstracts of dissertations from 1986 to the present.
Catalog of dissertations
Reflects receipts in the fund of dissertations from 1994 to the present.
Documents for previous years are partially reflected.
Catalog of standards
Reflects receipts in the fund of GOSTs, all-Russian classifiers and other standardization materials from 2004 to the present.
Documents for previous years are partially reflected.
Map catalog
Reflects card receipts from 2006 to the present.
Documents for previous years are partially reflected.
Catalog of isomaterials
Reflects receipts in the fund of domestic posters, bookplates and engravings from 2007 to the present
Sheet music catalog
Reflects all receipts to the fund of musical publications, with the exception of receipts for 1999-2005.
Catalog of serials (except newspapers)
With relative completeness, it reflects the fund of domestic and foreign journals, as well as ongoing publications that come out at irregular intervals (for example, "Proceedings of the Russian State University of Oil and Gas named after I.M. Gubkin", "News of the Russian Academy of Education"), for various chronological periods . The catalog is not completed and is under construction.
Newspaper catalog
With relative completeness, it reflects the receipts of newspapers in Russian for various chronological periods, which are in the Department of Newspapers of the Khimki Book Depository of the Russian State Library (Khimki, Moscow Region). The catalog is not completed and is under construction.
Microform catalog
Reflects microcopies of manuscripts and printed publications received by the fund and produced from 2002 to the present
Catalog of electronic documents on optical media
Reflects receipts of electronic documents on optical compact discs containing text, sound, visual information and films from 1985 to the present.
The RSL also has an excellent canteen. Some come here just to drink tea in a warm comfortable environment. Tea costs 13 rubles, but boiling water is free, some "readers" use this. By the way, the smell in the dining room does not allow you to stay there for too long.
The ceilings are very low, once there was a case when a worker got a concussion, she was taken to the hospital.
One day highlights:
- receipt of new documents - 1.8 thousand copies.
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- registration of new users (including new users of EDL virtual reading rooms) - 330 people.
- attendance of reading rooms - 4.2 thousand people.
- number of hits to the websites of the RSL - 8.2 thousand,
- issuance of documents from the funds of the RSL - 35.3 thousand copies.
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The hall of rare books - this is where you can touch the most ancient copies from the RSL fund. "To study the materials of the fund (and only a small part of it - 300 books is exhibited in the museum), to flip through the pages of unique book monuments, can only be read by the reader of the RSL, who has good reasons for this. The fund contains over 100 publications - absolute rarities, about 30 books - the only in the world of copies.Here are a few more examples of museum exhibits that you can work with in this reading room: "Don Quixote" by Cervantas (1616-1617), "Candide or Optimism" by Voltaire (1759), "Moabite Notebook" (1969), Tatar poet Musa Dzhalidya, written by him in the fascist prison Maobit, "The Archangel Gospel" (1092). Here are the first copies of the works of Pushkin and Shakespeare, books by the publishers Gutenberg, Fedorov, Badoni, Maurice. From the point of view of the history of Russian books will be interesting - Novikov, Suvorin , Marx, Sytin. Cyrillic books are widely represented."
Russian State Library(FGBU RSL) - the national library of the Russian Federation, the largest public library in Russia and continental Europe and one of the largest libraries in the world; a leading research institution in the field of library science, bibliography and book science, a methodological and advisory center for Russian libraries of all systems (except for special and scientific and technical ones), a center for recommendatory bibliography.
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Library of the Rumyantsev Museum
The Rumyantsev Museum, established in 1828 and founded in 1831 in St. Petersburg, has been part of the Imperial Public Library since 1845. The museum was in a state of disrepair. The curator of the Rumyantsev Museum, V. F. Odoevsky, offered to transport the Rumyantsev collections to Moscow, where they would be in demand and preserved. Odoevsky’s note on the plight of the Rumyantsev Museum, addressed to the Minister of the State Court, was “accidentally” seen by N.V. Isakov and gave it a go.
The curators of the Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, with which the library has been especially closely connected throughout its history, were A. E. Viktorov, D. P. Lebedev, S. O. Dolgov. D. P. Lebedev in -1891 - first assistant to A. E. Viktorov in the department of manuscripts, and after the death of Viktorov replaced him as custodian of the department.
In the same year, a 50-meter vertical conveyor for transporting books was put into operation, an electric train and a belt conveyor were launched to deliver requirements from the reading rooms to the book depository. Work has begun on serving readers with photocopies. A small room equipped with two Soviet and one American apparatus was organized for reading microfilms.
V. I. Nevsky ensured that the authorities decided on the need for construction. He also laid the first stone in the foundation of the new building. It became the standard of "Stalin's Empire". The authors combined Soviet monumentalism and neoclassical forms. The building harmoniously blended into the architectural environment - the Kremlin, Moscow University, Manege, Pashkov House.
The building is lavishly decorated. Between the pylons of the facade there are bronze bas-reliefs depicting scientists, philosophers, writers: Archimedes, Copernicus, Galileo, I. Newton, M.V. Lomonosov, Ch. Darwin, A.S. Pushkin, N.V. Gogol. The sculptural frieze above the main portico was made mainly according to the drawings of the academician of architecture and theatrical artist V. A. Shchuko. M. G. Manizer, N. V. Krandievskaya, V. I. Mukhina, S. V. Evseev, V. V. Lishev took part in the design of the Library. The conference hall was designed by the architect A.F. Khryakov.
Limestone and solemn black granite were used for facade cladding, marble, bronze, oak wall panels were used for interiors.
In 1957-1958, the construction of buildings "A" and "B" was completed. The war prevented the completion of all work on schedule. The construction and development of the library complex, which includes several buildings, lasted until 1960.
In 2003, an advertising structure in the form of the Uralsib company logo was installed on the roof of the building. In May 2012, the structure, which became "one of the dominants in the appearance of the historical center of Moscow", was dismantled.
Main book depository
Library holdings
The fund of the Russian State Library originates from the collection of N. P. Rumyantsev, which included more than 28 thousand books, 710 manuscripts, more than 1000 maps.
In the "Regulations on the Moscow Public Museum and the Rumyantsev Museum" it was written that the director is obliged to ensure that all literature published on the territory of the Russian Empire gets into the Museum Library. So, since 1862, the Library began to receive a legal deposit. Until 1917, 80% of the fund was legal deposit receipts. Gifts and donations have become the most important source of fund replenishment.
A year and a half after the founding of the Museums, the Library's fund amounted to 100,000 items. And on January 1 (13), 1917, the Library of the Rumyantsev Museum had 1 million 200 thousand items.
At the time of the beginning of the work of the Interdepartmental Commission, headed by the Glavlit of the USSR, to revise publications and rearrange them from special storage departments to open funds in 1987, the fund of the special storage department consisted of about 27 thousand domestic books, 250 thousand foreign books, 572 thousand issues of foreign journals, about 8.5 thousand annual sets of foreign newspapers.
Central core fund has more than 29 million items of storage: books, magazines, continuing publications, documents for official use. It is the basic collection in the subsystem of the main documentary funds of the RSL. The fund is formed on the basis of the collection principle. Of particular value are more than 200 private book collections of national figures of science, culture, education, outstanding bibliophiles and collectors of Russia.
Central Reference and Bibliographic Fund has more than 300 thousand storage units. According to the content of the documents included in it, it is universal in nature. The fund contains a significant collection of abstract, bibliographic and reference publications in Russian, the languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation and foreign languages (with the exception of eastern ones). The fund is widely represented retrospective bibliographic indexes, dictionaries, encyclopedias, reference books, guides.
Central subsidiary fund completes and quickly provides readers in the open access mode with the most popular printed publications in Russian, issued by the central publishing houses of Moscow and St. Petersburg. The fund has a large collection of scientific, reference and educational literature. In addition to books, it includes magazines, brochures, newspapers.
Electronic library of the RSL is a collection of electronic copies of valuable and most requested publications from the funds of the RSL, from external sources and documents originally created in electronic form. The volume of the fund at the beginning of 2013 is about 900 thousand documents and is constantly replenished. Full resources are available in the reading rooms of the RSL. Access to documents is provided in accordance with Part IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.
The electronic library of the RSL contains open access resources that can be freely read on the Internet from anywhere in the world, and restricted access resources that can only be read within the walls of the RSL, from any reading room.
About 600 Virtual Reading Rooms (VCHZ) operate in Russia and the CIS countries. They are in national and regional libraries, as well as in the libraries of universities and other educational institutions. VChZ give the opportunity to access and work with the documents of the RSL, including resources of limited access. This feature is provided by DefView software, the forerunner of the more modern Vivaldi digital library network.
Manuscript Fund is a universal collection of written and graphic manuscripts in various languages, including Old Russian, Ancient Greek, Latin. It contains handwritten books, archival collections and funds, personal (family, tribal) archives. Documents, the earliest of which date back to the 6th century AD. e., made on paper, parchment, and other specific materials. The fund contains the rarest handwritten books: the Arkhangelsk Gospel (1092), the Gospel Khitrovo (late 14th - early 15th century), etc.
Fund of rare and valuable publications has more than 300 thousand storage units. It includes printed publications in Russian and foreign languages, corresponding to certain social and value parameters - uniqueness, priority, memoriality, collectibility. The Fund, according to the content of the documents included in it, is of a universal nature. It presents printed books from the middle of the 16th century, Russian periodicals, including Moskovskiye Vedomosti (from 1756), publications of the Slavic pioneers Sh. , the first editions of the works of J. Bruno, Dante, R. G. de Clavijo, N. Copernicus, archives of N. V. Gogol, I. S. Turgenev, A. P. Chekhov, A. A. Blok, M. A. Bulgakov and others.
Dissertation Fund includes domestic doctoral and master's theses in all branches of knowledge, except for medicine and pharmacy. The collection contains author's copies of dissertations -2010, as well as microforms of dissertations made to replace the originals -1950s. The fund is preserved as part of the cultural heritage of Russia.
Newspaper Foundation, which includes more than 670 thousand items, is one of the largest collections in Russia and the post-Soviet space. It includes domestic and foreign newspapers published since the 18th century. The most valuable part of the fund are Russian pre-revolutionary newspapers and publications of the first years of Soviet power.
Fund of military literature has more than 614 thousand storage units. It includes printed and electronic publications in Russian and foreign languages. Wartime documents are presented - front-line newspapers, posters, leaflets, texts for which were composed by the classics of Soviet literature I. G. Erenburg, S. V. Mikhalkov, S. Ya. Marshak, M. V. Isakovsky.
Fund of Literature in Oriental Languages(Asia and Africa) includes domestic and the most significant scientific and practical foreign publications in 224 languages, reflecting the diversity of topics, genres, types of printing design. The sections of socio-political and humanitarian sciences are most fully represented in the fund. It includes books, magazines, continuing publications, newspapers, speech recordings.
Specialized collection of current periodicals formed to quickly serve readers with current periodicals. Doublet copies of domestic periodicals are in the public domain. The fund contains domestic and foreign magazines, as well as the most requested central and Moscow newspapers in Russian. After the expiration of the established period, the journals are transferred for permanent storage to the Central Fund.
Art Publications Fund with about 1.5 million copies. This collection includes posters and prints, engravings and popular prints, reproductions and postcards, photographs and graphic materials. The Fund introduces in detail the personal collections of famous collectors, including portraits, bookplates, works of applied graphics.
Fund of Cartographic Publications has about 250 thousand storage units. This specialized collection, including atlases, maps, plans, maps and globes, provides material on topics, types of publications of this kind and forms of presentation of cartographic information.
Fund of printed music and sound recordings(more than 400 thousand items) is one of the largest collections, representing all the most significant in the world repertoire, starting from the 16th century. The music fund has both original documents and copies. It also includes documents on electronic media. The sound recording fund includes shellac and vinyl records, cassettes, tapes of domestic manufacturers, DVDs.
Fund of official and normative publications is a specialized collection of official documents and publications of international organizations, public authorities and administration of the Russian Federation and individual foreign countries, official regulatory and production documents, publications of Rosstat. The total volume of the fund exceeds 2 million items, presented in paper and electronic forms, as well as on other microcarriers.
AT fund of literature of the Russian diaspora, numbering more than 700 thousand items, presents works by authors of all waves of emigration. Its most valuable component is the collections of newspapers published on the lands occupied by the White Army during the Civil War, others were published in the occupied territories of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War. The fund stores the works of figures of the domestic human rights movement.
Network Remote Resource Foundation has more than 180 thousand items. It includes resources of other organizations hosted on remote servers, to which the library provides permanent or temporary access. According to the content of the documents included in the fund, it is of a universal nature.
Fund of publications on optical CDs(CD and DVD) - one of the youngest collections of documents of the RSL. The fund has more than 8 thousand storage units of various types and purposes. Includes text, sound and multimedia documents that are original publications or electronic analogues of printed publications. According to the content of the documents included in it, it is universal in nature.
Fund of literature on library science, bibliography and book science is the world's largest specialized collection of such publications. It also includes language dictionaries, encyclopedias and general reference books, literature on related fields of knowledge. The 170,000 documents at the disposal of the fund cover the period from the 18th century to the present. Editions of the Russian State Library are allocated to a separate collection.
Fund of working copies of microforms has about 3 million items. It includes microforms of publications in Russian and foreign languages. Partially presented are microforms of newspapers and dissertations, as well as publications that do not have paper equivalents, but correspond to such parameters as value, uniqueness, and high demand.
Intrastate Book Exchange Foundation, which is part of the subsystem of exchange funds of the RSL, has more than 60 thousand storage units. These are doublet and non-core documents excluded from the main funds - books, brochures, periodicals in Russian and foreign languages. The fund is intended for redistribution by gift, equivalent exchange and sale.
Fund of unpublished documents and deposited scientific works on culture and art has more than 15 thousand storage units. It includes deposited scientific papers and unpublished documents - reviews, abstracts, references, bibliographic lists, methodological and methodological-bibliographic materials, scripts for holidays and mass performances, materials of conferences and meetings. Fund documents are of great industry-wide importance.
