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03/06/2016. To the 5th anniversary of the project the Electronic Library of the Authors of Karelia
The National Library of the Republic of Karelia has more than ten active projects. In its activity a modern library uses all facilities and also the Internet.
But the Electronic Library of the Authors of Karelia should be particularly highlighted today. The project celebrates its first anniversary – in June 2016 it is five years since the project has moved to the cyberspace.
Every library should work both with readers and authors who are creators of the book collections. The project initiators set the goal to transfer our traditional activities to a modern platform, to create a virtual meeting space for readers and authors. The reason is that the electronic reading becomes more and more popular and publishing of a print edition - more and more complicated.
On the 2nd of June in the conference hall of the National library this platform went into real: project participants and readers gathered together to look back and evaluate the results achieved. The meeting was held in a friendly atmosphere. The National Library of Karelia was addressed words of gratitude, the audience learned about the stages of the project development, partners who have contributed to this development, about how the electronic publications have progressed and transformed. The participants of the project Elena Soini, Yana Zhemoitelite, Ilya Raskolnikov, Oleg Moshnikov and Dmitri Gorokh read their poems. Sergei Konstantinov sang songs on poems by our authors. The premier of a song by Svetlana Berdova took place.
Today in the Electronic Library of the Authors of Karelia there are more than 100 html-pages of authors those lives are connected with Karelia. Among them there are masters and beginners, doctors of sciences and students, poets and prose writers, translators and journalists, so the project allows us to show the diversity of creative searches of Karelian writers.
340 electronic editions are published. These are texts, audios, videos, experimental editions that combine text, graphics, audio and video. The publishing platform Flipping Book Publisher used by the project team has such possibilities.
When the whole audience was listening to a song Scarlet Sail published for the first time in the Electronic Library of the Authors of Karelia and sang by its author V. Z. Ananin, we were becoming more confident that our project is not just a momentary meeting of authors and readers. The project is a way to preserve cultural heritage of our native land.