Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology

The Russian National Public Library for Science and Technnology (Russian: Государственная Публичная Научно-Техническая Библиотека России), abbreviated GPNTB (Russian: ГПНТБ) is a national library for engineering, science, and technology in Moscow, Russia. It was founded in 1958 on the basis of the State Science Library of the Ministry of Higher Education of the Soviet Union. It is located in Kharoshevskiy district of Moscow.

The mission of the library is to collect and store national and foreign science and technical literature, then disseminate information and bibliographical services for commercial, organisations and other institutions of the Russian Federation, development and application of up-to-date automated information technologies.

The Library has a status of Scientific Research Institute with an academic council consisting of 30 well-known scientists and specialists in information technologies.

The Library has an integrated complex system "IRBIS" for the automatization of data processing. This system became the official standard for the other libraries. The Library was one of the leaders in using a technology of barcodes.

Departments include an Internet cafe, information center, and an education department.

External links

• Official website