Activities of SB RAS scientific libraries for heritage preservation of Siberian scientists (to the 120th anniversary of T. T. Deulya birth)

Abstract

Libraries of institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) conduct elucidative activities, promoting popularization of knowledge, advancemtnt of the ideas of scientists, propagation of the achievements of regional science through the creation of information resources of their own generation. The Central Scientific Library of the Irkutsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (CSL INTS SB RAS) maintains the electronic catalog of scientific publications held in its collections, as well as the Consolidated electronic catalog of publications from the collections of libraries of academic research institutes and institutions of Irkutsk and the Irkutsk region. The Central Scientific Library plans to create electronic memorial libraries dedicated to outstanding Siberian scientists.The article presents the results of biobibliographic studies, which made it possible to identify new materials about one of the initiators of the creation of the Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Irkutsk, Taras Timofeevich Deulya (1901–1974), Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Associate Professor of Irkutsk State University (ISU), scientist, teacher and public activist. In particular, the exact date of birth was established, the list of his unpublished works was discovered. Based on the collected material, the website will be created dedicated to the life and work of T. T. Deulya.