ROLE OF CENTRAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH LIBRARY IN INFORMATION SUPPORT OF AGRARIAN SCIENCE

Abstract

There has been considered the history of development and transformation of information service and information support of researches on the problems of the agro-industrial complex (AIC) in the Central Scientific Agricultural Library (CSAL). It is noted that the CSAL is contemporary in all historical periods of the development of the country, it used and uses the most advanced and effective methods and forms of information support of the scientists and specialists engaged in the AIC area. For 90 years of its existence the Library from a reference library under the Academy of Agricultural Sciences having a collection of some hundreds of books has become the largest agricultural library of the country and the world having a collection of more than 3 million depository items including rare and valuable editions of the 18 century, complete ranges from the date of publication of a lot of specialized periodicals functioning as a depositary of professional books. The Library has become an information center and a scientific institution. As an information center it creates bibliographic, abstract and full-texts databases, publishes bibliographic current indicators, abstract periodicals, conducts reviews, and carries out individual information dissemination (IID). As a scientific institution the Library undertakes research in library science, bibliography and information science: it develops industry-wide linguistic resources providing the formation and unified information representation in the information resources and effective search in them. The Library Site allows the user to receive different information from the user’s computer without library going. Substantially all information services can be obtained remotely. There has actively been developing the Electronic Scientific Agricultural Library that allows reviewing full-texts of documents including business reference books, dictionaries. The Central Catalogue of the AIC Libraries using cloud-based technologies powered by the CSAL has been created and has been developing. The CSAL puts information across researches in agriculture and food industry.