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Kostanai city            

October 30-31, 2008

In 2001 the Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation, the Russian committee of the “Information for all” UNESCO Programme together with the Russian state library and the National library of the Republic of Kazakhstan started the implementation of the Russian-Kazakhstani project ‘Meetings at the boundaries’ for the creation of the joint electronic library.

   The purpose of the project is the creation and placement in the Internet for free access of the electronic collections disclosing the cultural-historical links of the peoples of Russia and Kazakhstan. The concept of the project proposes the widening of cooperation within the framework of the library belt of the frontier Russian and Kazakhstani libraries.

   The implementation of the project “Meetings at the boundaries” has cultorological, enlightenment, scientific, educational purposes which assist the solution of the problems of inten-national mutual understanding and enrichment of the cultures and integration processes happening between the two states.

   Within the framework of widening and implementation of the tasks of the Russian-Kazakhstani project “Meetings at the boundaries” by the programme of cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan in the humanitarian sphere there is already created an electronic library at the National library of the RK, the Northern-Kazakhstani and Omsk regional libraries.

   And now the project grows with the new members – the Kostanai (the RK) and Kurgan, Chelyabinsk regional, Troyitsk city libraries (the RF). In future there within the framework of the project is planned the joining of the frontier libraries of the two countries.

   The National library of the Republic of Kaqzakhstan and the Kostanai regional department of culture on October 30-31, 2008 there in Kostanai city hold the seminar “The Russian-Kazakhstani project “Meetings at the boundaries”: the electronic library – international partnership” on the basis of the Kostanai regional universal scientific library after L.N.Tolstoy.

   There in it wil participate the workers of the Russian state library (Russia) and the National library of the RK, the National academic library of the RK (in Astana city), the libraries of the Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Astrakhan, Chelyabinsk regions, of Troyitsk city, the specialists of the libraries of the frontier regions of Kazakhstan (the Northern-Kazakhstani, the Western-Kazakhstani, Atyrau, Aktobe, Pavlodar, Southern-Kazazakhstani ones).

   The purpose of the seminar is the coordination and agreement of actions for the further implementation of the project. The programme of the seminar includes the demonstration of the software of the electronic library, the experience of the libraries for the formation of the electronic base “Meetings at the boundaries”, consultations of the specialists.

    There for the seminar is prepared the book-illustrative exhibition “Kazakhstan-Russia:

   The vector of cooperation”, which embraces the stages of development of the Russian-Kazakhstani project “Meetings at the boundaries” and represents the cultural-spiritual space of the two peoples.