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National scientific agricultural library

National academy of agrarian sciences of Ukraine

  • V-й науково-практичнія конференція НАУКОВО-ІННОВАЦІЙНИЙ РОЗВИТОК АГРОВИРОБНИЦТВА ЯК ЗАПОРУКА ПРОДОВОЛЬЧОЇ БЕЗПЕКИ УКРАЇНИ: ВЧОРА, СЬОГОДНІ, ЗАВТРА
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«There is only one truly inexhaustible treasury it is a great library»

Pierre Boast

 

National Scientific Agricultural Library of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine (NNSGB NAAS) – a special library that, combining the functions, tasks and directions of an academic and national branch library, in matters of theory and practice, implements the state program for increasing the efficiency of information, library and scientific support of domestic agro-industrial production with a constant aspiration for perfection, considering that agriculture – the most important branch of the national economy, and agricultural science – the foundation of agricultural production, which requires constant scientific and educational support. This is an officially recognized scientific and methodical center for libraries

Its uniqueness lies in the fact that the NNSGB of the National Academy of Sciences is the only specialized library in the country.

The main purpose of the library – creation of a single information space and integration into the world information space.

Mission of the Library:

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–   creation of national industry information space;

–  integration of national industry information into the global information space;

–  organization of highly professional information and bibliographic service for users; 

–  transformation of the library into a client-oriented and service system.

Vision

– overcoming borders and barriers on the way to access information and its delivery to users;

– completeness, accuracy and efficiency of meeting the informational, professional, production needs of users/clients.

Scientific component and training of scientific personnel

– training of highly qualified scientific personnel capable of carrying out scientific research on the history of science and technology at the appropriate level through the study of modern scientific methodology, research methods and acquired skills in their application in the professional activity of a historian of science. 

–  to increase the potential opportunities of the teaching staff, first of all, in the history of agricultural and natural sciences.

Values

– we consider the information resources of the NNSGB NAAS as national treasures and work on their replenishment and accessibility;

– are confident that access to global information will inevitably lead to progress in the country's agricultural industry.

– we provide information services only of excellent quality and are demanding in meeting international standards of information service;

– we value partnership and cooperation aimed at achieving access to information without borders;

– we treat information impartially;

– we rely on the professional and moral value of each library employee and welcome his uniqueness;

– we positively evaluate the openness and cooperation of both individual specialists and professional groups within the library and in the information community, considering ourselves members of the same team;

– we believe in the reliability and evolution of the library to fulfill our mission.

NNSGB NAAS today – it is:

–  guarantor of preservation of cultural heritage development, open, purposeful library; 

– a modern information center with a strong creative potential, which unites employees of various specialties to solve a common task – providing users with information. Leads in the application of new information technologies, looks for additional opportunities for obtaining and delivering information and the constant process of evolution;

–  an authoritative center with innovative library technologies, the latest forms of service, various innovative services;

– a dynamic modern scientific and educational center, the resource potential of which corresponds to the tasks of high-level training of specialists for the agrarian industry;

– information base for conducting fundamental and applied research works, projects;

–  methodological center for scientific agricultural libraries.

 

An excursion into the history of the library

The predecessor of the modern library is the library of the General Secretariat (Ministry) of Land Affairs of the Ukrainian Central Rada, founded in 1917. with a fund of 1007 storage units. From the beginning of its operation, its activities were aimed at solving two main tasks: 1) how to better use the existing scientific achievements for the further development of agriculture in Ukraine; 2) how to quickly and thoroughly develop little-studied sciences in Ukraine, which should give maximum results. Since then, the activity of the library  does not change in this direction.

A qualitatively new stage in the activity of the institution was marked in 1972, when, at that time, the Central Scientific Agricultural Library of the Southern Branch of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences named after Lenina moves from Kharkiv to Kyiv. During this period, the main directions of library-bibliographic, information, mass, scientific-methodical and scientific-research work were finally formed, and inter-library cooperation and coordination were activated.

Evolving, the institution went through a difficult path in formation and activity. Until 2003, the name and subordination of the library changed several times, and at the end of 2012, by Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 700/2012 of 14.12.2012. received national status. 

The library as a scientific research institution of category "A" works on the solution of fundamental and applied tasks aimed at further development of agriculture, information-library business and national history of science and technology. She is a co-executor of scientific research programs of NAAS.

The main part of the intellectual potential of the Ukrainian people – the acquisition of agricultural science and the practice of agro-industrial production is concentrated in the book collections of the library. Users are parliamentarians and government officials, scientists and specialists, teaching staff of educational institutions and students, farmers and other land users and landowners, businessmen. Institution since 1975. is a branch depository of agricultural and forestry literature. This function is provided by 70 employees, including 9 doctors and 21 candidates of sciences. The performance of delegated powers is carried out in accordance with three Laws of Ukraine: "On Libraries and Library Affairs", "On Scientific and Scientific-Technical Activities"; and "About higher education".

Today, the NNSGB of the National Academy of Sciences – a powerful scientific and information center for the formation of the branch segment of agrarian issues as a component of the structure that creates an information environment for the development of Ukrainian society with over a million document and information potential. An important place is given to two collections: 1) «Fund of publications issued in the 19th century on agricultural topics of the National Agricultural Research Service of Ukraine» (10 300 items) and 2) « Collections of scientific publications of 1901–1917 from the funds of the NNSGB NAAS» (32 983), which according to Order of the Government of Ukraine are classified as national property. Among them are fundamental publications on the natural, agricultural, and forestry sciences, reference books and encyclopedias, albums, atlases, collections of periodicals published at that time in the Russian Empire, on the territory of modern Ukraine, Poland, Germany, France, the Czech Republic, Italy, the USA, and England. These unique objects are an extremely important source for the study of the origin, formation and development of agrarian science and society in general. 

Comprehensive work is being carried out to identify and process valuable and rare publications and their digitization. </ p>

As part of the implementation of the delegated functions of the national library and methodical center, industry-specific instructional-methodical and regulatory documents are developed, which are provided to the network for use through printing in issues of the "Bulletin of the NNSGB of the National Academy of Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences". and separate manuals. Scientific and analytical reviews of reports on the work of the libraries of the institutions of the NAAS network and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine are being prepared, recommendations for improving information and library work to help the agricultural libraries of the network in serving specialists in the agricultural sector, etc. 

Training courses for librarians of scientific agricultural libraries of the network are held annually.

To meet the library and information needs of users, innovative forms of organizational and information work are used.

Today, the innovative activity of the library consists in changing the technology of user service (using the technology of bar coding of library documents, introduction of an electronic reader's ticket); introduction of electronic book publishing; creating electronic databases, expanding the range of library services, etc. 

In this direction, the NNSGB of the National Academy of Sciences actively cooperates with the scientific libraries of branch research institutions and educational institutions of the National Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine through the initiation of corporate projects.

An important innovative direction of activity of the NNSGB of the National Academy of Sciences is providing users with access to full-text electronic documents on agrarian and related topics of the world information flow. The library directs its users to use electronic global information resources, providing access to international databases of scientific information Scopus and Web of Science.

The Institute of the History of Agrarian Science, Education and Technology functions at the institution, which is the only one of its kind in the post-Soviet space today. In 2001, it was created as the Center for the History of Agrarian Science, and since August 21, 2013. reorganized into the Institute. The main purpose of its appearance was to conduct a number of complex branch scientific studies, in particular, it is about the historical and scientific analysis of the origin, formation and development of agricultural research in Ukraine in the context of the evolution of world branch thought. It prepares and publishes monographs, collections of historical scientific documents, scientific and auxiliary retrospective bibliographic indexes on the problems of agriculture, industry history, which are published in 13 series: "Academicians of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine"; "Biobibliography of agricultural scientists of Ukraine", "Agrarian science of Ukraine in persons, documents, bibliography" etc. 

Post-graduate and doctoral courses are in operation, where highly qualified specialists are trained in the specialty 07.00.07 – history of science and technology. Training courses for librarians of scientific agricultural libraries of the methodologically subordinated network are held annually.

NNSGB of the National Academy of Sciences prepares and publishes scientific publications of national significance, in particular the abstract journal "Agro-industrial complex of Ukraine", (Access mode: https://dnsgb.com.ua/diyalnist/vidavnicha-diyalnist/referativnij-zhurnal/ electronic scientific and professional collection "History of science and biography" (Access mode: http://inb.dnsgb.com.ua, Bulletin of the NNSGB NAAS (Access mode: https://dnsgb.com.ua/diyalnist/vidavnicha-diyalnist/byuleten-nnsgb-naan/), which contains recommendations for improving information and library services for specialists in the agricultural sector, official, scientific and methodological materials to help library specialists in the agricultural sector.

The library institution closely cooperates with specialized information institutions of many leading countries of the world, diplomatic missions of foreign countries and international organizations accredited in Ukraine, leading libraries of Ukraine, etc.

On the Internet site of the institution at the link http://dnsgb.com.ua the multifaceted activities of the institution are covered , services and resources that are available to users 24/7. 

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