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works in their native languages –Evenki, Even and Yukaghir. This project has
given today’s users the opportunity to hear and listen to the original voices of
famous writers of small-numbered peoples of the North. Availability of “talking
books” for all the categories of the population irrespective of their age and
level of instruction, as well as the possibility to listen to audio files virtually
everywhere ‐ be it in public, in tents of reindeer breeders, or in a nomadic
school ‐ made them popular among the inhabitants not only of Yakutia, but of
the Magadan, the Kamchatka and other regions too. According to the Library’s
statistics, some 3,000 people have already made use of the “talking books”. New
life was brought to the project in 2007 when audio tapes were digitized and
were used to create 14 multimedia disks with the original voices of writers,
taletellers, scientists and other people speaking literary language of the small
peoples of the North. The recordings were published at the Knigakan web-site
of the small-numbered peoples of the North.
The activities to preserve the documented heritage of the small peoples of the
North entered a new phase in 1990. That year, the State authorities increased
their attention to the problems of small-numbered peoples of the North,
developed the framework for national and language policy in the Republic of
Sakha (Yakutia) and granted the status of official language to the languages of
the peoples of the North.
Coordination Council on Promotion of Culture of the Russian North was
established at the Second All-Russian Meeting on Promotion of Culture of
the North, which took place in Yakutsk in 1996. Upon the decision taken at
this meeting, the National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) became
the major organization responsible for the creation of information resources in
the Russian northern territories, as well as for the provision of access to and
mutual exchange of information on the challenges of the North. The creation
of an information center on the basis of the National Library was supported by
the library community.
Since then, the Library has started to work systematically and consistently on
increasing the activities aiming to create and manage the use of e-resources on
the small peoples of the North on the basis of a program-based and targeted
method. These efforts resulted into the establishment of the following resources:
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1. two reference databases, i.e. the Repertory of books of indigenous
peoples of the Republic (1932-2010) containing 1,200 titles in Evenki,
Even, Dolgan, Chukchi, Yukaghir, Yakut and Russian, and the Books in
the languages of indigenous peoples of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
(1932-2008) with 434 titles in Evenki, Even, Dolgan, Chukchi and
Yukaghir;