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The assembly holds a depositary at Kazakhstan’s National Research Library.
The collection provides information support for the country’s ethnic policy
activities while also consolidating Kazakh society’s spiritual culture, crucial
to maintaining national unity.
It features books providing a profile of the assembly and telling of activities by
its units – various ethno-cultural associations, an expert council, and a public
foundation. The collection is also accessible online, at the National Kazakh
E-Library (www.kazneb.kz ).
Thanks to its partnership with the assembly, this e-library has become a
platform for various programmes in fostering intercultural dialogue and
promoting the national language, as well as the languages, cultures and
traditions of all of Kazakhstan’s ethnic groups.
The country’s libraries realize perfectly well that information and
communication technology is one of the most efficient tools for building a
favourable linguistic environment. This is why, along with conventional forms
of library and reference services, readers are also offered resources and services
based on ICT, such as e-libraries and electronic reference units, websites,
online displays, and e-posters. Some positive experience has already been
accumulated in this area, but we still have a long way to go in promoting Web
content in Kazakhstan’s national language and languages spoken by the non-
Kazakh population – a major priority with the country’s public libraries.
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