Book Monuments: Legal and Organizational Problems of State Registration

Abstract

Conservation of rare and valuable books in our country has a long tradition. Since 2001, work on identification and state recording of book monuments is one of the priority directions of State Cultural Policy of Russia. Functions of organizational and scientific-methodological center are being performed by the Russian State Library.By now there is created scientific-methodological and organizational basis of the system of state registration of book monuments. There are adopted legal rules governing the state registration of book monuments, however its implementation involves significant legal and organizational problems. For further development of system of state recording of book monuments and solution of the existing problems, at the Government support there is created the All-Russian Corpus of Book Monuments, there is continued scientific and applied research on its identification and description, implemented and improved the technology of automated record-keeping, there is executed training of personnel capable to implement system approach in work with book monuments.