Централната библиотека на БАН в дистанционен режим
Central Library of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences at a remote duty

Summary/Abstract: The formation of the information and scientific-cultural space is the most important task of the libraries. Today, when the world is affected by an unprecedented pandemic and people live in isolation libraries are in front of extremely great challenge.The work of libraries in a remote duty acquires a great importance because it is carried out in new conditions with help of the modern information technologies.The activities for the realization of this pressing task are focused in two main directions: 1. Inner library work. 2. Readers facilities.The library activity in the Central Library of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in the present situation was implemented at a remote mode of operation – a retroconversion of the library catalogs and digitization of the rare documents from our collections. From 13.03 to 13.05.2020 more than 8000 bibliographic records were created and 17 titles in 5141 files were displayed in digital collections. The work in the national scientific program Cultural and historical heritage, national memory and social development whose implementation was not ceased during these two months, consisted in editing of more than 1000 bibliographic records and displaying of 11 periodical titles (38 series in 6130 files). Remote duty was in force for all of the current initiatives, which were carried out before the state of emergency and were periodically displayed and disseminated on the website of the Library and its facebook page.The reader services during this period were, of course, not provided in the traditional way. The policy of our Library is to offer an open access to all of its resources. Our digital library encompasses 20 collections – 3943 titles, 282 383 files. During this period an abrupt increase in the use of the electronic catalog and the digital collections was observed.Indeed, this does not represent the full range of the versatile library activities and is by no means an alternative to the traditional library work, but we do believe that it is a big step forward and we will continue to work hard in this direction in the near future.

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