Lenin Library visiting rules. Russian State Library

The library branches are distributed in different buildings. In the “Pashkov House” on the street. Vozdvizhenka, 3/5 is located reading rooms Departments of music publications and manuscripts. On the street Vozdvizhenka, 1, building K there is a reading room of the literature department. "Oriental Literature Center" can be found on the street. Mokhovaya, 6-8. Near the establishments there are metro stations “Alexandrovsky Sad”, “Arbatskaya”, “Biblioteka im. IN AND. Lenin" and "Borovitskaya". The reading rooms at the Tolerance Center and the Jewish Museum are located on the street. Obraztsova, 11 near the Maryina Roshcha metro station.

Library entry rules

Rules for visiting the library

Also, when entering and exiting the library, you must show your library card open. A ticket will also be required when ordering and receiving the necessary books and documents.

When leaving, the policeman on guard may demand to open the bag, packages and look at their contents. If you have lost a check sheet somewhere, you should inform the reading room administrator about it.

After receiving documents, books, newspapers, etc. you need to review them for defects and, if found, inform the librarian about it.

Laptops, audio players, voice recorders and other technical devices can be brought and used in the library in agreement with the library administration. Only all devices must be without any sound signals and on autonomous power supply.

It is prohibited to use in the library mobile phones, create a loud non-work environment and break the silence.

The RSL also has an excellent canteen. Some people come here just to drink tea in a warm, comfortable environment. Tea costs 13 rubles, but boiling water is free, some “readers” take advantage of this. By the way, the smell in the dining room makes it difficult to stay there for too long.

One day indicators:



- receipt of new documents - 1.8 thousand copies.

Title="Indicators for one day:
- registration of new users (including new users of EDB virtual reading rooms) - 330 people.
- attendance of reading rooms - 4.2 thousand people.
- number of hits to RSL websites - 8.2 thousand,
- issuance of documents from the RSL funds - 35.3 thousand copies.
- receipt of new documents - 1.8 thousand copies.">!}

The Rare Books Hall is where you can touch the most ancient copies from the RSL collection. "Study the materials of the fund (and only a small part of it is exhibited in the museum - 300 books), leaf through the pages of unique book monuments, can only be a reader of the RSL, who has good reason for this. The fund contains over 100 publications - absolute rarities, about 30 books - the only copies in the world. Here are some more examples of museum exhibits that you can work with in this reading room: “Don Quixote” by Cervantas (1616-1617), “Candide or Optimism” by Voltaire (1759), “The Moabit Notebook” (1969), by the Tatar poet Musa Jalid, written by him in the fascist Maobit prison, “The Archangel Gospel” (1092). Here there are the first copies of works by Pushkin and Shakespeare, books by publishers Gutenberg, Fedorov, Badoni, Maurice. From the point of view of the history of Russian books, Novikov, Suvorin, Marx, Sytin will be interesting. Cyrillic books are widely represented."

Moscow registration at your place of residence or place of stay is only needed if you want to take books home. In this case, you will be issued a library card.

 In some libraries, a Muscovite card or a social card of a resident of the Moscow region can be used as a library card. In this case, when registering at the library, such a card will need to be presented along with your passport.

If you do not have a Moscow registration or do not want to get a library card, you can get a one-time pass. It will allow you to use all the services of the library, but you will not be able to take the book with you.

2. Can an adult sign up for a children's library?

Adults, youth and children differ only in the composition of the book and magazine collection. Anyone of any age can use the services of any library. That is, an adult, if necessary, has the right to enroll in a children's and youth library, and a child - in an adult's library.

3. What do you need to register in the library?

To register in the library, it is enough to present a passport or other identification document. Children under 14 years of age can be enrolled in the library only in the presence of a legal representative (parent, guardian, trustee) and according to his documents.

 In addition, you will be required to complete and sign an agreement library services, including agreement with the rules for using the library.

4. What else can you do in the library?

In addition to issuing books and magazines at home and using them in the reading room, libraries also provide other free services. Among them may be:

• access to electronic publications from the library and the National Electronic Library;
• free Wi-Fi;
• computers with access to local and remote electronic resources;
• workstations with sockets for connecting readers’ personal laptops (tablets);
• the ability to listen to sound recordings and watch video recordings;
• access to electronic libraries of periodicals, reference and information systems on legislation and topical issues rights (“ConsultantPlus” and “Garant”), electronic library of dissertations, electronic library systems;
• bibliographic services.

Also in many libraries, for an additional fee, you can attend sections and master classes, and use the services of restorers. Meetings with writers and excursions are held.

6. What to do if you lost your library card?

If you have lost your library card, you will need to contact the library for a new one. You must have an identification document with you. The first duplicate is usually issued free of charge; subsequent copies will need to be paid for.

7. How to sign up for the Reading Rooms of the Central State Archives of Moscow?

In the state archive of the city of Moscow, everyone can familiarize themselves with the original archival documents.

In Central state archive The following reading rooms operate in the city of Moscow:

The hall serves users working with paper-based documents on the history of the city of Moscow. In a specially designated, separate work area in Hall No. 1, especially valuable cases that do not have copies of the use fund, cases that are in an embroidered state, and cases with other features are issued.

The hall serves users working with copies of the collection of documents used before 1917, documents of cultural funds after 1917.

The hall serves users working with documents of the city of Moscow.

Citizens with limited mobility are served in Hall No. 2. Users registered to work in the reading room also have the right to work with printed publications (scientific and reference literature).

To register for reading rooms, you will need:

• passport or other properly identifying document (temporary identity card, military ID, residence permit);
• or an official letter () from the sending organization;
• consent to the processing of personal data (signed on the spot);
• user form (filled out on site);
• for users A user who has not reached the age of majority is allowed to work in the reading room with one of the parents or other legal representative responsible for maintaining order.">at the age of 14-18 years- a letter from an educational institution.

To the user and Accompanying persons (including legal representatives, translators and other assistants, persons accompanying the user with disabilities health) are admitted to the reading room of the archive on the basis of a completed questionnaire, in which, along with other personal data, it is necessary to indicate the type, series, number and date of issue of the identity document, as well as the authority that issued it.

Users working with scientific and technical documents are registered on the basis of:

• personal statement, or official letter, containing the information necessary to search for an archival document (a specific object of study, its construction and postal address);
• a document confirming the user’s authority to obtain documented information on objects real estate, which is in federal ownership, property of the city of Moscow, municipal or private property, incl. on issues of land use and (or) urban planning in land plots relating to federal property, property of the city of Moscow, municipal and private property (ownership document or permission of the owner/owners, or the relevant authorized executive body of the city of Moscow);
• a document confirming the user’s right to carry out work with the study/use of information related to federal laws to the category of restricted access, in case of contact with such information.

The RSL contacted me and offered to do a report about our main library, naturally, I happily agreed.

Within the walls of the Russian State Library there is a unique collection of domestic and foreign documents in 367 languages. There are specialized collections of maps, sheet music, sound recordings, rare books, dissertations, newspapers and other types of publications. The library provides the right to use its reading rooms to all citizens of Russia and other countries who have reached the age of 18. About 200 new readers sign up here every day. Almost 4 thousand people come to the RSL every day, and virtual reading rooms located in 80 cities of Russia and neighboring countries serve more than 8 thousand visitors daily.

Today is the first part big story about the Russian State Library. In it you will learn how to borrow a book from the library, look at the vaults and the secret underground passage to the Kremlin.

01. First you need to come to the metro station. "Library named after. Lenin". They still won't rename it. Previously RSL (Russian state library) was also called “Library named after. Lenin". To get into the library you need to have a library card; you can get one at the second entrance. In your hand: passport, student ID (if a student) and 100 rubles for a photo. Fill out the form and press the “electronic queue” button. A ticket comes out. Take it in your hands - it is yours. Numbers light up on the scoreboard above special small rooms. Wait for yours and come in. There, a specially trained woman will take your application form and take a photograph. You need to decide right away reading room, where you will be given books. It’s not very clear how to do this without seeing the halls. In 5 minutes the plastic card will be ready. It takes no more than 10 minutes to obtain a library card.

02. Login. The RSL is guarded by a special police regiment. Turnstiles are one of the latest innovations in the library, which, however, was received ambiguously by readers. Access is via a barcode on your library card. You are not allowed to carry books, cameras or large bags; they must be stored in a storage room.

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04. If you already have a list of references - that is, you know exactly what books you need, feel free to go to the card catalog room.

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06. Leninka’s funds contain more than 43 million storage units. There are specialized collections of maps, sheet music, sound recordings, rare books, dissertations, newspapers and other types of publications.

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08. There are always consultants in the hall who will help you navigate the huge amount of information.

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11. After you have found the book you need in the catalogue, you need to obtain a requirement sheet from the consultant.

12. And copy all the information about the book into it.

13. For advanced readers, stands with the RSL electronic catalog have been installed. I honestly tried to take something from Pushkin...

14. I guess I was too worried because I received a book about potatoes. By the way, since at present the process of transferring the paper catalog to electronic form has not yet been completed, not all books are there, so many people are looking for it the old fashioned way in a card index.

16. Once every 15 minutes, a pneumatic mail operator comes to collect demand sheets.

17. The operator is hiding from prying eyes behind this cabinet.

18. And here is the pneumatic mail point itself. The system was installed in the library back in the 70s.

19. The sheet is folded, placed in a “cartridge” and sent to the storage tier where the book you ordered is located. This is why we need codes on the cards.

21. By the way, a requirement sheet is not always placed in the cartridge. You can use it to send cigarettes, a pen or a love note. Before the New Year, employees like to send candy.

22. This is what the diagram of the receiving and sending station looks like.

23. The pneumatic mail channels descend into the basements of the library. This, by the way, is a secret passage to the Kremlin, but they asked not to write about it.

24. This is a pneumatic mail repairman. Sometimes careless employees try to pass prohibited items (for example, pens), the cartridge may open and then, in order to find and remove the pen, the pipes have to be opened. Often the caps simply fall off the cartridges, and getting them out is also problematic.

25. This miracle machine was installed in the early 90s. They say she can beat Kasparov at chess, but now she simply manages the entire network of pneumatic mail in the RSL.

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27. So, while your request is being processed, which is about 2 hours, you can go have fun.

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29. For example, you can read periodicals - the RSL has all the magazines that are sold in print kiosks - including for the current month. This can be done in the reading room of periodicals.

30. Every minute the doors of the Library are opened by five visitors.

31. According to the Law on Legal Deposit of Documents, the Russian State Library is the place of storage of the legal deposit of all printed materials published in Russia.

32. There is also an excellent canteen in the RSL. Some people come here just to drink tea in a warm, comfortable environment. Tea costs 13 rubles, but boiling water is free, some “readers” take advantage of this. By the way, the smell in the dining room makes it difficult to stay there for too long.

33. While you are drinking tea and absorbing the aromas of home cooking, your request is being processed at the book depository.

34. total length bookshelves The RSL is about 275 kilometers.

35. The ceilings are very low, once there was a case when a worker received a concussion, she was taken to the hospital.

36. There is a story in the RSL that the ghost of Nikolai Rubakin lives in storage. At night, when the floors are locked and sealed with wax seals, the night guards hear someone walking, footsteps are clearly audible, doors open and close. Perhaps the fact is that in his will Rubakin indicated that he bequeathed his entire personal collection (which is 75,000 books) to the Lenin Library. After his death they did so. Only along with the books they brought an urn with his ashes and for some time it was kept here. Well, what is a personal collection? It’s a part of the soul, pencil marks in the margins, dog-eared pages and a lot of thoughts. Rubakin was buried in Moscow, but his ghost continues to wander the floors... perhaps turning pages, rearranging books...

37. Rubakin - the creator of bibliopsychology - the science of text perception. Author of the book “Psychology of the Reader and the Book.” He developed the ideas of Emil Hennequin, the author of “Estoppsychology”. His ideas are widely used in psycholinguistics.

38. The “note” is received by storage workers, they take your book and send it to the reading room using conveyors. There are two conveyors at the RSL: the vertical one was designed by Sukhanov in the 70s.

39. Large chain conveyor, put into operation back in 1953.

40. “This is Metrostroy, there are the same gears as on escalators in the subway.” Nevertheless, it is high time to replace the mechanism with much more modern analogue. But, as explained CEO RSL, in order to implement a new technical system, the conveyor must be stopped, and this threatens that the activities of the entire Library will actually be paralyzed. Only with the commissioning of a new building will it be possible to replace the conveyor.

41. There is also a small version of the chain conveyor. To store 41,315,500 copies, premises with an area equal to 9 are used football fields, and for each library worker there are 29,830 copies stored.

42. In 1987, the fund of the special storage department consisted of about 27,000 domestic books, 250,000 foreign books, 572,000 issues of foreign magazines, about 8,500 annual sets of foreign newspapers. These books and magazines could not be obtained by the common reader.

43. Books from the storage room are waiting for readers.

44. You can’t take books home. For reading, the RSL has 37 reading rooms with 2,238 seats, of which 437 are computerized.

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46. ​​Reading room No. 3 is the largest, it is a kind of business card RSL, you can come to it with your laptop; on the side shelves there are dictionaries, for example, Ancient Greek-Russian.

47. You can make a copy of a book, it costs 6 rubles per page, but you cannot take photographs. Nobody really explained to me the reason for the ban on photography; there was something incomprehensible about copyright, then about the fact that books are deteriorating. It seems to me that a photocopier spoils books more than a camera, and if you allow people to photograph illustrations, for example, they will be cut out less and pages will be torn out.

48. One day indicators:
- registration of new users (including new users of EDB virtual reading rooms) - 330 people.
- attendance of reading rooms - 4.2 thousand people.
- number of hits to RSL websites - 8.2 thousand,
- issuance of documents from the RSL funds - 35.3 thousand copies.
- receipt of new documents - 1.8 thousand copies.

49. At the beginning of 2010, the RSL employed 2,140 people, of which 1,228 were library workers.

50. Women make up about 83% of total number RSL employees. Average age Library workers - 48.6 years. The average size wages- 13,824 rub.

51. Reading room of the electronic library.

52. Here you can use remote resources and databases to which the RSL is connected - for example, the Cambridge library, and the databases of the Springer publishing house - an electronic library of foreign scientific and business journals, the EAST-VIEW database. The subject of the search is publications on social sciences and humanities. There is also access to Electronic RSL library and archive of dissertations.

53. Reading room Internet and electronic documents. Here you can surf the Internet for 32 rubles per hour. There was also some kind of disgusting photo exhibition taking place here. Incomprehensible photographs hung from the ceiling so that they could not be seen from behind plastic sheets.

54. Hall of official documents, here you can read files of old newspapers, codes of laws and all kinds of codes. Young people are interested in the extensive collection of UN documents (since 1946) and collections of acts, resolutions, and decisions of the international court on human rights. GOSTs for “any occasion” are also presented here - there is even one for the “cleaver axe”. Free legal consultations are organized for anyone in the FN reading room.

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58. An old sports magazine, a lot of illustrations have been cut out. If we take, for example, the Ogonyok magazine from 1958, we will see Beria’s face painted over with ink. This is the work of the censors of the 1st department.

But in addition to political censorship, there was also “popular censorship” - readers were vigilant about morality. And the RSL is one of the few libraries during the Iron Curtain that received all the issues of foreign magazines. There was nothing like that there, of course, but diligent citizens lengthened their skirts and even glued the pages together so that no one would see examples of bourgeois life. More distinctive feature readers of those years - they cut out advertisements from magazines.

59. Hall of Rare Books - this is where you can touch the most ancient copies from the RSL collection. “Only the reader of the RSL, who has good reason to do so, can study the materials of the fund (and only a small part of it is on display in the museum - 300 books) and leaf through the pages of unique book monuments. The fund contains over 100 publications - absolute rarities, about 30 books - the only ones in the world of specimens. Here are some more examples of museum exhibits that you can work with in this reading room: “Don Quixote” by Cervantas (1616-1617), “Candide or Optimism” by Voltaire (1759), “The Moabit Notebook” (1969), Tatar. by the poet Musa Dzhalid, written by him in the fascist prison of Maobit, “The Archangel Gospel” (1092). Here there are the first copies of the works of Pushkin and Shakespeare, books by the publishers Gutenberg, Fedorov, Badoni, Maurice. From the point of view of the history of Russian books, Novikov, Suvorin will be interesting. , Marx, Sytin. Cyrillic books are widely represented."

60. Microfilms were made for some of the books. And, if the presence of the original source is not of paramount importance for the work (paper, ink, etc. are not important, but the content is valuable), microfilm will be issued in the reading room. The original is out of the question.

62. As it turned out, many readers steal books, and quite often. Particularly inventive ones cut out a valuable book from the cover, and insert another one of similar size into it. Often they simply tear out pages or cut out illustrations. And although it is easy to identify a thief or vandal, it is almost impossible to bring him to justice; for this you need at least 2 witnesses who saw how the book was damaged.

64. Cards and documents are sometimes forgotten in books. Once in the 80s, a forgotten chervonets was found.

65. Pink Corridor" - one of the exhibition areas of the RSL.

66. Remains from old telephone booths.

67. Meeting room of the RSL - here the fate of the library is decided - the directorate meets weekly, the course of development is determined, decisions are made.

68. The RSL is the fourth library in the world in terms of collection size, the British Library is in first place - 150 million items versus our 42.

69. The windows of some reading rooms offer stunning views of the Kremlin.

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72. Book depositories also open from the top floors good views, unfortunately, while I was going there, the weather turned bad.


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73. Families work in libraries, for example Olga Viktorovna Serezhina, she has been working for 41 years, her mother worked here for 40 years.

74. On the left is Natalya, her daughter, who has been working here for 7 years)

75. And this is a policeman, he was extremely indignant that I took his photograph, and threatened to tear his head off. He urgently needs to be sent to the hall of official and regulatory documents so that he can read the laws. Otherwise that's all free time he spends it chatting on the phone with his wife.

76. Soon there will be a separate story about how books are scanned, restored and repaired.

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The library has two main websites - www.rsl.ru - there you can read about all the services and news - who came where, what exhibitions are taking place. And www.leninka.ru - here is the history of the RSL from the moment of its establishment

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IN Russian State Library valid since 2013 remote recording service for readers. You can enroll in the RSL and use the library’s resources without visiting its buildings on Vozdvizhenka and Khimki. All data necessary for recording can be sent by mail or via online access.

The RSL has been developing its electronic resources for several years: the multimillion-dollar book fund is being digitized and is successfully developing dissertation library project, new virtual reading rooms are opening in Russian cities and abroad. Already today, digitized documents of the RSL, free from copyright, can be read anywhere in the world where there is Internet access.

Until 2013, publications and dissertations that were closed to public viewing and stored in the Russian State Library could be read only after receiving a library card at Vozdvizhenka or Khimki, or from the virtual reading rooms of the RSL opened in other libraries. The library card provided both regular access to the library’s reading rooms and remote access electronic library dissertations of the Russian State Library.

Since 2013, any Internet user can become the owner of an RSL library card - just send the necessary documents by registered mail, or send them by email. When registering remotely, the user receives an electronic library card with a unique number, which allows access to library services. For example, in this moment Readers can already work remotely with the dissertation library, and in the future other library resources will become available to holders of electronic tickets.

Further by number electronic ticket You can get a plastic card for access to the reading rooms of the RSL. The remote recording service is valid for all Russian citizens over 18 years of age, as well as for higher education students educational institutions who have not reached this age.

Source: http://www.rsl.ru/ru/news/2312132/

Registration on the RSL website

Registration on the RSL website provides access to some of the services of the RSL online store:

• Uploading documents using a dedicated channel;
• Copying documents from the RSL Electronic Library;
• Acquisition of publications written off from the RSL funds;
• Purchasing electronic copies of books from the Pashkov House publishing house;

The account is linked to the address Email, user passport data is not required. Registration on the RSL website is the first step when registering with the RSL. If you received a ticket in a reader registration group, additional registration on the site is not required.

Library entry

Registration in the library involves creating an RSL library card and providing access to:

• to the library reading rooms with the opportunity to order and receive books from the RSL collections;
• to all library services;
• to electronic resources, licensed databases and electronic versions publications

A library card is identified by a unique number and is issued for a period of five years.

When registering remotely in the library, an electronic library card is created. A plastic library card with a photo for access to the reading rooms of the RSL can be obtained upon a personal visit to the reader registration group.

In-person registration is carried out in the reader registration group. You will need originals of your passport, higher education document or student ID. Citizens of the Russian Federation fill out a registration card on the website to register online. You will need electronic copies of your passport, higher education document or student ID and bank card to confirm your identity. Citizens of the Russian Federation for records with sending documents by mail fill out and print out the reader registration card, make copies necessary documents and send them to the RSL by registered mail.