Electronic Library Concept

The company "Alley Software" participated in the scientific and practical conference "Information and communication technology as a resource to attract readers," held April 12-13, 2010 in Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast on the basis of State Universal Scientific Library. I. Molchanov-Siberian. The main purpose of the conference, according to organizers, was the compilation, analysis and prospects of libraries, given the potential information and telecommunication technologies. The event, held at the Ministry of Culture and the archives of the Irkutsk region, attracted more than 110 people - professionals and managers not only public but also schools, museums, special libraries, and archives. The two day conference allowed speakers to highlight and technological, and methodological aspects of library development, and conducted during the event exhibition - show available to perform such tasks solutions (hardware, software, multimedia and online editions). The company "Alley Software" acted as a speaker and exhibitor.

CEO, Stanislav Kim, the report "Creating a Digital Library - from concept to realization," spoke about the modern methods of digitizing the content and the creation of electronic data storage. Ilya Zelentsov, head scan, in turn, spoke about technology, digitization of the book fund and files, as well as the choice of a book scanner. The work of this class of devices has been shown in practice - participants exhibition could live to get acquainted with the technology of digitizing books with a digital camera for example, the scanner ATIZ BookDrive Mini from the company ATIZ Innovation. "It was important to understand the level of awareness of library issues in the Irkutsk region digitization and organization of digital libraries. " - Says Ilya Zelentsov, head scan, "Alley of Software" - "The main feature of the conference was its" inter-agency ", which showed strong technological fluctuations - while in some libraries, is in full swing digitizing valuable book collection, in others - poor computerization, the number of computers is negligible and does not have access to Internet, not to mention the various ALIS ".

"We became more clear to the general trend, the methods of transition to new technologies, of course, can not be underestimated and the opportunity to share experiences with colleagues" - says Stanislav Kim, General Director of "Alley of Software" - "We believe the Irkutsk region is very promising: the availability of highly skilled professionals with experience in implementing information systems that perform retrospective conversion directory. Together libraries, museums and archives, we can avoid a re-work to optimize the use of human and technical resources of the region and to obtain results that can be considered a weight on level of not only individual organizations but also the whole region. We hope that this community will be able to interest the regional administration to implement their projects. We, in turn, are willing to participate in such as events, and organize their own. I would like to thank the organizers for the interesting and informative event and say a special thank you to fellow librarians from Tomsk to participate actively in exhibition and a willingness to share the experience of the region. All conference materials can be found on our website (). "