National Library of Uzbekistan named after Alisher Navoi

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Founded in 1870. In accordance with the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated February 2002, 20 No PF-3029 "On improving research activities" established on the basis of the State Library of the Republic of Uzbekistan named after Alisher Navoi and the Republican Scientific and Technical Library named after Alisher Navoi The National Library of Uzbekistan has a long history. On August 1867, 16, the Governor-General of Turkestan, KPKaufman, appealed to the Ministry of Public Education, the Academy of Sciences, the Public Library, the Geographical Society, and the General Staff of Russia to help establish a new library base by providing duplicate publications from bookstores. This period was the beginning of the history of the library. In May 1870, more than 2200 volumes (200 titles) were collected, which formed the core of the future Tashkent Public Library, which allowed to open a public library. The great scholar of the country and a strong bibliophile, the first director of the library NVDmitrovsky (1841– 1910) played an important role in the history of the Tashkent Public Library for its development.

At the time the library opened, the majority of readers were in the military.

The library is one of the largest and oldest book storage facilities in the Central Asian region, providing 28 different non-traditional services.

The National Library of Uzbekistan named after Alisher Navoi is an information and cultural-educational institution, which carries out library, bibliographic, scientific research, scientific-methodical and information activities. The library fund is a unique collection of content universal national and foreign press. The main purpose of the library is to collect, store and present for public use a universal fund of documents that reflect the knowledge of all mankind, primarily related to Uzbekistan and its national interests.

The Fund of Rare and Rare Publications is the pride of the library's book collection, which consists of more than 250 publications. More than 15 of them are rare books and manuscripts. The most unique collection of the library is a unique "Turkistan Collection" of 1917 volumes, a unique encyclopedia of the history, ethnography, culture and geography of Central Asia up to 594, as well as 4 volumes of 10 parts compiled by APK. A special place is occupied by the "Turkistan Album", which contains 1200 unique photos about the lifestyle and customs of the people of Turkestan.

The history of the republic of the end of the XIX century, the literature of local lore of the first quarter of the XX century, the first Turkestan lithographic, periodicals, a collection of manuscripts, various editions of the holy book - the Qur'an are of great interest to researchers. The library includes a monument of ancient Russian books of the XVI century, the book "Ostrojskaya Bible" by Ivan Fedorov, published in Ostrog in 1581, the first secular book "Ucheniye i chitrost ratnogo stroyeniya pehotnix lyudey", published in Moscow in 1647 in Church-Slavic font. There are books of Peter's time - "Arithmetic" by Leontiy Magnitsky (1703), "Khmochnovskaya rukopis" of Peter the Great and others. The rare collection of Western European books includes the Inquisition of the Ninth German Bible, published in Nuremberg in 1489, and Erbelo's Vostochnaya Biblioteka, published in Paris in 1697.

The works of our great ancestors Al-Bukhari, At-Termizi, Ahmad Yassavi, Bahoutdin Naqshbandi, Al-Khwarizmi, Al-Beruni, Ibn Sino, Alisher Navoi, Amir Temur, Mirzo Ulugbek, Babur are kept in the library. The first editions of works published in the life of Cholpon, Fitrat, U. Nasir, Hamza, G. Gulom, A. Qahhor and other artists, the works of Russian writers ASPushkin, LNTolstoy, APChekhov, ANTolstoy are invaluable.

The fund of literature in foreign languages ​​includes publications on socio-political, humanitarian, natural-scientific and technical issues in more than 75 languages, and today has more than 350 copies.

The Art Department of the library has a unique collection of notated music, recordings of Uzbek classical and world music, more than 150 publications of fine and applied arts.

Technical literature (more than 2 million copies) is also unique in its content, a collection of architectural and technical documents, industrial catalogs (on paper) (more than 33700 copies).

The Department of Automation New Information Technologies uses and develops a single automated library system, provides methodological assistance in creating electronic catalogs and electronic databases.

The library has its own publishing house and publishing house, which is engaged in publishing and printing activities.

In 1988, the automation of the library process was started, and in 1999, the creation of an electronic catalog of new domestic and foreign publications using the automated information program IRBIS of the Russian State Scientific and Technical Library. The electronic catalog of the library today contains bibliographic records of more than 25 new publications and analytical records of periodicals. The library is creating its own database and taking advantage of the opportunity to work with Curret Content, MicroMedex, Medine, EBSCO and databases.

From 1923, the library began to receive compulsory copies of printed works. In 1948 the library was named after Alisher Navoi.

The library has been conducting international book exchanges since 1956, and its partners are more than 24 organizations from 30 countries. The library is a member of major international library organizations: IFLA, the Eurasian Library Association, the International Association of Electronic Libraries and New Information Technology Manufacturers and Users.

The library has established strong creative ties with many international organizations and foundations, as well as with embassies of foreign countries accredited in Uzbekistan, contributing to the rapprochement of peoples with different cultures, religions and historical roots. adds.

Today, the library has more than 75 million books in 10 languages. copied.

The library provides methodological guidance to all libraries in the country in the field of library science, bibliography and bibliography.

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