Open AccessPARTICIPATION OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIES IN PREPARATION FOR CELEBRATING THE 220th ANNIVERSARY OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES IN 1945
Author(s) -
М. В. Левнер,
Н. А. Виноградова
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
trudy gpntb so ran
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2712-7915
pISSN - 2618-7515
DOI - 10.20913/2618-7575-2020-4-31-45
Subject(s) - exhibition , library science , period (music) , world war ii , power (physics) , state (computer science) , spanish civil war , history , political science , art history , art , law , computer science , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , aesthetics
Here the authors present another article from the series devoted to the work of libraries of academic institutions and their staff during the Great Patriotic War. The article bases on the documents found in the archive of the Library for Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow and St. Petersburg Archives of the Academy of Sciences. The authors used the general scientific methodology, applying source study, archaeographic and analytical-synthetic methods of work with archival documents. This work is devoted to the grandiose event, preparation to which took place in in the last war months – the 220th anniversary of the USSR Academy of Sciences celebration. Preparation for this jubilee celebration was complex one, engaging various specialists and reflecting different directions of scientific development in the country. Large-scale book and rare archive documents exhibitions in which the best library specialists of the USSR Academy of Sciences took part displayed successes of the Russian science. These jubilee arrangements were to demonstrate the history of the development of science in Russia and the Soviet state power having won the severe war. When arranging jubilee celebrations the USSR Academy of Science librarians used the experience acquired while organizing famous scientists books’ exhibitions in the most difficult period of the Great Patriotic War. There were exhibited book treasures from the collections of academic libraries and archives as well as the results of studies of soviet scientists, foreign scientific publications that included native scientists’ articles. These exhibitions took place in Moscow and Leningrad – the cradle of the Russian Academy of Sciences. During this hard war period, the State allotted considerable resources for the jubilee arrangements, attaching great importance to international contacts of native scientists, showing their impact into the global science. The jubilee exhibitions revealed the big potential of the USSR Academy of Science libraries in spite of the enormous stuff and resources loss during the war. The experience of holding events on celebrating the anniversary of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1945 may be useful in organizing work on the upcoming 300-th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2024.