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31
July
2010
Eight
decades
ago,
in
July
of
1930,
a
Branch
Reference
Library
affiliated
to
the
USSR
Agricultural
Academy
was
set
up to
support
the
research
and
practical
activities.
Later
on,
the
Reference
collection
grew
into
the
Central
Scientific
Agricultural
Library
(CSAL)
which
is
currently
celebrating
the
80th
anniversary.
During
its
lifetime,
alongside
with
the
national
events
the
CSAL
has
faced
the
periods
of
great
success
and
great
difficulties,
now
thanks
to
the
management
and
the
staff
it
remains
to be
the
federal
centre
of
information
and
training.
Currently,
the
library
has
over
3
million
accessioned
volumes
on
agriculture
and
related
subjects
such
as
forestry,
environmental
protection,
food
industry
and
resources.
The
bibliographic
rarities
date
back
to
the
18th
century
and
the
pre-revolutionary
magazines
for a
period
of
over
a
hundred
years
are
kept
here.
 Among
rare
books
there
are
some
on
the
environment
and
nature
conservation: СThe
comprehensive
collection
of
research
expeditions
over
RussiaТ
(1819),
СOn
the
rights
of
animalsТ
(1903),
СWater
pollution
by
oil
products
and
its
affect
on
fish
resourcesТ
(1903),
СNature
conservation
in
the
worldТ
(1913),
СProtection
of
nature
monumentsТ
(1914).
The
regional
sections
covers
the
themes
of
research,
geography,
nature,
history,
climate,
soils,
nature
conservation,
fauna,
flora,
stock
breeding,
forestry,
etc.
At
present,
the
CSAL
gains
the
status
of
the:
-
state
depository
branch
centre
of
the
Russian
and
foreign
sources
(books,
journals,
newspapers,
serials,
videos,
CD)
-
federal
centre
of
branch
bibliography,
-
scientific
and
methodical
centre
of
the
Russian
library
network,
-
international
centre
of
document
exchange
in
the
CIS
countries,
-
part
of
the
AgroWeb
Central
and
East
European
Network,
-
depository
library
of
FAO
publications.
The
Library
publishes
a
number
of
indices,
6
titles
of
abstract
journals,
including
the
quarterly
journal
СEcological
safety
in
agroindustrial
complexТ,
a
weekly
bulletin
of
new
acquisitions.
The
Central
Scientific
Agricultural
Library offers
a
wide
range
of
services,
among
them:
delivery
of
documents
or
their
copies
(within
the
Service
of
Electronic
Document
Delivery
- EDD
that
provides
remote
users
by
electronic
copies
of
sources
from
the
library
collection),
compilation
of
subject,
bibliographical,
factographical
and
specifying
references
on
agricultural
issues,
internet
resources,
purpose
distribution
of
information
upon
actual
requests
of
users,
exhibition
organization,
lectures,
scientific
and
practical
conferences.
Dr.
Nina
G. Dobrynina
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