INION: scientists of Ukraine is ready to help restore the library of the Institute
Foreign scientists, and among them are from Ukraine, ready to help restore damaged in the fire of the library of the Institute of scientific information on social Sciences (INION) Russian Academy of Sciences, said Last news Deputy Director of the Institute Vladimir Gerasimov.
a powerful fire that started on the last working day of the week in the evening, was raging in the Institute for more than a day. The fire area was 2 thousand square Meters, collapsed the roof on an area of about 1 sq. M. And a part of the external wall. The head of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov assessed the damage from a fire in a unique library INION 15% of the total Fund.
"If to speak about the near abroad, We have received And continue to receive proposals for specific support. Such proposals were received from Belarus, Kazakhstan, And even from Kiev. Certain proposals are coming from abroad, and among them from our scientific Diaspora, " said Gerasimov.
"we have some of the funds lost (due to fire). And their restoration have the opportunity to help Ukrainian colleagues", he added. According to Gerasimov, the Experts from Ukraine have the opportunity to share their literature.
"We're going from colleagues to get a real list (books), proposals for the transfer of books. On the basis of these lists are going to work, " explained the Deputy Director of the Institute.
The INION is the largest scientific information centre of Russia in the field of social Sciences And Humanities. His library consists of 14, 2 million copies in ancient, modern, Eastern, European And Russian languages, and among them rare editions XVI - early XX centuries. The library has the most complete, and in some cases the only Russian collection of documents of the League of Nations, the UN And UNESCO, parliamentary reports USA (1789), England (1803), Italy (since 1897) And almost the largest Russian collections of books on Slavic languages.
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