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their promotion online. The “E-book shelf” section contains bibliographic and
reference lists, articles and publications on the history of our region.
We always indicate the authorship and information sources. It might be for
that reason that the Russian library community considers our project as a
new format of bibliographic resources on the Web. Our website has already
attracted visitors from over 80 countries.
Our new project – the Digital Library of Karelian Authors (http://avtor.
karelia.ru/) – is freely available since June 2011. We wanted to create a virtual
meeting place for contemporary Karelian authors and their readers, to assist
both authors and growing army of e-readers. We started with publishing 28
electronic editions of 14 authors invited to cooperate. Publications are grouped
into nine categories, including prose, poetry, translations, literary criticism,
etc. After placing links in the Karelian web-space and presenting the project
in the local media we began to receive proposals from new authors through the
feedback.
We have made agreements with owners (authors and publishers). We are proud
of having digital publications labeled “first published”. It means our project has
earned the trust of authors. We hope that it will catch the fancy of Internet
users. Of course, we plan to prepare publications not only in Russian but also
in Finnish, Karelian and Vepsian languages with Russian translation provided.
Analyzing the demand for similar Internet projects, their standing in the local
scientific and creative community, we come to the conclusion that success is
only possible by combining various creative initiatives under the roof of the
National Library.
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