The main problem with the acquisition and formation of the library collection in 2015 was the lack of budget financing in connection with the regional budget deficit. Thus, the main source of accession of the Fund became the state order and the book as a gift.

On 01.01.2016, the library fund amounted to 432642 copies of documents on different physical media, including:

• Books  - 402 401 copies ( 93.2 % )

• Periodical literature – 26 489 copies (6.0%)

• Electronic publication - 1352 (0.2 %)

The electronic catalog:

«Books» – level contains bibliographic notes on all types of documents, including books, author’s abstracts, disks, notes, audiovisual materials.

The catalog volume contains 107 619 records on 1/1/2012

«Articles» – contains bibliographic notes on periodicals written out by library, articles from newspapers and magazines.

Catalog volume – 162 411 notes.

«Online collection» – contains bibliographic notes and full texts of actual materials from the Internet and the separate digitized documents of various subjects.

Subcategories