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  In 2001 the Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation together with the Russian state library of the RF and the National library of the RK started the implementation of  the Russian-Kazakhstani project “Meetings at the boundaries” by the programme of cooperation between Kazakhstan and Russia in the humanitarian sphere which is the creation of the joint Russian-Kazakhstani electronic library.

   The purpose of the project is the formation of the single resource through the libraries by collecting, preservation and widespreading information, providing of network services for users, the creation and placing in the Internet of electronic collections for the free access, which disclose the cultural-historical relations of the peoples of Russia and Kazakhstan.

   The implementation of the project has the culturological, enlightening, educational significance which assist the solution of issues of inter-national mutual understanding  and mutual enrichment of cultures and are conducive to the integration processes taking place between the two states.

   There have been elaborated and adopted the Conception of the Russian-Kazakhstani project, the plans of activities for the implementation of the given project, the feasibility study for the project, including the carrying out of the working seminars-councils. There between the sides-participants of the project has been concluded the Agreement on cooperation for the implementation of the Russian-Kazakhstani project “Meetings at the boundaries”.

   The conception of the project presupposes the widening of cooperation within the framework of the library belt “Europa-Asia” between the frontier Russian and Kazakhstani libraries.

   The participants of the project: 

    From the Russian Federation: the Ministry of culture of the RF, the Russian state library (the RGB), the Kemerovo state university of culture and art, the Omsk RUSL, the Astrakhan regional scientific library after N.K.Krupskaya, the Chelyabinsk RUSL, the Kurgan RUL after A.K.Yugov, the Troyitsk city library, the Centre of national cultures of the Republic Altai in Kosh-Agach city.

    From the Republic of Kazakhstan: the Ministry of culture and information of the RK, the National library of the RK, the Northern-Kazakhstani RUSL after S.Mukanov, the Eastern-Kazakhstani regional library after A.S.Pushkin, the Western-Kazakhstani RUSL after Zh.Moldagaliyev, the Pavlodar RSL after S.Toraigyrov, the Kostanai RUSL after L.N.Tolstoy, the Atyrau RUSL after G.Slanov. 

   The important stages in the implementation of the project are: 

< 2002 – The international conference “Eurasianism – integration of cultures and library resources” (Uralsk city). In the course of the conference they managed to consider and strengthen the main trends of development of the joint Russian-Kazakhstani project, which was included into the plan of the Ministry of culture of the RF for 2002-2005;

< 2002 – the Kazakhstani-Russian seminar-council “Eurasianism in the XXI-st century.

  East-West: the electronic cooperation of the libraries” (Petropavlovsk city); the Seminar-council gave the start to the practical implementation of the Project. There were elaborated the concrete dates and plans for its development, there was chosen the basis for the creation of the joint electronic library - the Northern-Kazakhstani RUSL after S.Mukanov (the RK) and the Omsk state scientific library after A.S.Pushkin (the RF); 

< 2003 – the Days of the UNESCO Programme “Information for all” in Kuzbass (Kemerovo city); this year there was created the joint electronic library at the National library of the RK, the Northern-Kazakhstani and Omsk regional libraries; there for the execution of the tasks of the Project in the Northern-Kazakhstani RUSL after S.Mukanov in the first ten days in February, 2003 was organized the specialized department. Its purpose: to provide the accumulation, preservation and effective use of the electronic, informational resources, disclose the richness of the fonds of the library. Among the tasksthere were classified: the acquisition of the electronic fonds; the development of the electronic documents’ delivery; the establishment of “feedback” with the users; the strengthening of the relations with the informational, educational and cultural centres of the regions. The department has the modern computers on the basis of the latest models of the processors and also equipment for scanning and digitization of texts, positives, video- and audio-documents. The staff of the  department is filled with qualified specialists, including the programmer and operator of the Electronic Calculating Machine. The department interacts with all the structural subdivisions of the RUSL and the club “Krayeved” within the informational-bibliographical department, with the Kazakhstani centre of corporate cataloguing of the National library of the RK, the department of informational-computer systems of the Russian state library.

< 2006 – The seminar-council “Kazakhstan – Russia: the dialogue of cultures” (Almaty city); At the seminar-council in Almaty city the project “Meetings at the boundaries” grew into the mega-project “The caravan-sarai on the Great Silk way”, the linking thread of which is the informational highway “Moscow-Almaty-Delhi”, it is opened for the partner participation not only for the libraries of Russia and Kazakhstan, but the Central and Middle Asia regardless of their departmental belonging, ready to assist the strengthening and development of the inter-national dialogue. There at the given seminar were signed the Agreements (the protocol) on the joining of the frontier libraries to the Agreement of the project “Meetings at the boundaries”. There were collected the materials for the project in Omsk city, Petropavlovsk city, at the NLRK; 

< 2008 – The republican seminar “The electronic library – international partnership. The Russian-Kazakhstani project “Meetings at the boundaries” (Kostanai city). There within the framework of the republican seminar were adopted the recommendations on the widening of the circle of participants of the project due to the joining of the Kostanai RUSL after L.N.Tolstoy, the Kurgan Regional Scientific Library after A.G.Yugov, the Chelyabinsk RSL, the Troyitsk city library (the Russian Federation). In accordance with the Plan of activities for the implementation of the project “Meetings at the boundaries” the Russian state library handed over to the NLRK 13 discs with the digitized books and abstracts of theses, altogether 232 titles. In 2007 there was opened the web-page at the site of the National library of the RK (www.nlrk.kz), on which there is presented the information about the project, about the participants, the documents, activities and the full-text electronic library. There are presented 315 full-text documents in the electronic library of the National library of the RK “Meetings at the boundaries”. 

< 2009 – The government of the RK adopted the Conception for the formation of the informational-library space on the basis of the frontier libraries of the states-participants of the CIS. The purpose of the conception is the elaboration of aligned positions, strategy and the determination of the main trends of practical activity  for the formation of the formational-library space on the basis of the frontier libraries of the states-participants of the CIS. There was compiled the further Plan of activities for the implementation of the Conception  of the formation of the informational-library space on the basis of the frontier libraries of the states-participants of the CIS planned for 2009-2010. The project “Meetings at the boundaries” has interest for Russian and Kazakhstan, who have much in common pertaining to their common historical destiny. Further within the framework of the project there is planned the joining of other frontier libraries of the two countries. The project is open for the partner participation of all the libraries of Russia and Kazakhstan, who are ready to assist the strengthening and development of the inter-national dialogue, who are interested in the development of bilateral relations and the creation of electronic collections which are within the context of the given project.